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Mrs. Villafaña from Arleta, CA is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Great Equalizer: Technology

Help me give my students an opportunity to receive the best possible access to history-social science content, currently through distance learning.

  • $1,529 goal

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Mrs. Villafaña has another project! Donate to Game On, Game Day to help her classroom.

$698 - complete this project and be a hero

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Our school has been closed since March, and many of our students are facing challenges beyond their control and yet doing the best that they can under the circumstances. 98% of my students come from low income communities who struggle to not only make ends meet let alone try to get Internet service. I have one mom recently who was explaining the difficulty of her school age children all trying to share the same hot spot to go online to do school work. I currently have seniors, class of 2020, and 9th graders and many of them are facing such adversity, I hope they never have to face again. I am so proud and humbled to be their teacher and want to do the best I can as their teacher.

My Project

Having an outdated laptop of my own, the Surface laptop/tablet would be helpful such that it can also be converted to a tablet, and used with a stylus. The ability to access various features such as drawing graphic organizers, and writing notes to easily share with students while distance learning would surely help.

Updated technology, while learning from home for both teachers and students would make "distance" learning more manageable.

Having the ability to use a stylus would give me the flexibility to incorporate additional teaching and learning strategies. The Surface laptop/tablet would give the ability to draw, share, and innovate new ways to teach through distance learning.

Trying to learn how to "teach" through distance learning while still trying to meet the needs of diverse learners I am looking for ways to address those visual learners especially to learn the content such as figuring out the interest rate for a car loan, for an activity in financial literacy.

Mrs. Villafaña Arleta High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Arleta, CA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Microsoft Surface Pro 7 - 12.3' - Core i5 1035G4 - 8 GB RAM - 128 GB SSD • Best Buy Education $886.23 1 $886.23
Microsoft Surface Pro Signature Type Cover - keyboard - with trackpad - US - platinum • Best Buy Education $136.90 1 $136.90
Microsoft Surface Slim Pen - stylus - black • Best Buy Education $124.23 1 $124.23

Materials cost

$1,147.36

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $104.98

3rd party payment processing fee

$17.21

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,299.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$229.33

Total project goal

$1,528.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,528.88

1 Donor

-$649.78

Donations toward project cost

-$649.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$764.44

Match offer toward project cost

-$649.77

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$114.67

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$114.67

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 $0.00

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