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Ms. Higgins from Bellingham, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Underprivileged Students in Need of Books

Help me give my students class sets of their curricular works of literature.

  • $538 goal

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My Students

My students, 40+ of them spanning all grades from 7-12, are students at an alternative day school program catering to those with special needs. Each student has a diagnosis, whether it be specific learning disabilities, social-emotional struggles, or health challenges that make it difficult to access the curriculum without assistance.

Being a program in transition, we have switched up our demographic, our educational philosophies, almost everything about our building in recent years.

Sadly, my students are often stigmatized by the community because of rumors and negative perceptions of past students. They are thought of as not capable of behaving or learning like a more "traditional" student. All of these presumptions are untrue and hurtful.

Because of these stigmas, we as educators of these students don't always have the opportunity to give them everything we wish to, such as new materials or class sets of books not borrowed from other schools in the district.

My Project

I inherited a classroom in an alternative school with an extensive class library, but lacking in class sets of many novels I teach. While I have access to an online database which houses some of the works I teach, it is difficult to hold a student's attention while they stare at a screen, and even more difficult to perform the plays we read when everyone is holding a computer and scrolling to find their parts. I am also in a building with spotty wifi that often renders my online works useless.

In the past two years, I have had to borrow class sets of works from other schools, find pdf files online of these works, and even read novels off my cell phone when the wifi went out.

I also have many students in need of differentiated instruction, and it is difficult to reach them when I do not have multiple means of delivering their instruction, such as books in print to supplement reading aloud or even just enough copies for every student to get one for themselves. My students deserve everything they need in order to succeed, and having full sets of novels in their curriculum is a great place to start.

Ms. Higgins Keough Memorial Academy Grades 6-8

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More than half of 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

40 students impacted 13donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Flowers for Algernon Student Edition • AKJ Education $7.29 10 $72.90
The One and Only Ivan • AKJ Education $6.29 10 $62.90
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon • AKJ Education $6.17 10 $61.70
Othello (No Fear Shakespeare) • Amazon Business $5.95 10 $59.50
Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare) • Amazon Business $5.80 10 $58.00
Number the Stars • AKJ Education $5.58 10 $55.80
Death of a Salesman • AKJ Education $4.99 10 $49.90

Materials cost

$420.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$457.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.65

Total project goal

$537.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $537.66

9 Donors

-$385.15

Donations toward project cost

-$327.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.77

Matching donations from our partners

-$152.50

Match offers toward project cost

-$129.62

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.88

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