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Mrs. Calabresi from Bay Harbor Islands, FL is requesting computers & tablets through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Virtual Pioneers

Help me give my students a quality, virtual education by providing a Microsoft Surface Pro that provides efficacy in delivering my online instruction.

  • $1,859 goal

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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

I am currently teaching 25 fifth grade, self-contained gifted students. They come from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. My students have all been tested and identified as gifted learners. However, what makes them special to me is their ability to adjust to new circumstances and ways of learning.

One of the many things that I love about my gifted students is their unequivocal desire to ask questions.

Their curiosity challenges me to constantly find ways to motivate them by enhancing and enriching the curriculum.

My Project

Education has always evolved with new pedagogy but never like it has due to COVID-19. My way of teaching has taken a new role that has revolutionized the way I connect with my students. I am now teaching remotely and my students are distance learning. Technology has surfaced and replaced my traditional classroom with a virtual classroom.

Maintaining 25 little faces on a screen motivated and engaged is a challenge we have all had to learn to cope with.

Some challenges are more difficult than others to overcome and/or solve. One of those challenges is keeping up with an outdated, non-compatible device. I currently have an Apple Macbook Air which is not compatible with the Microsoft PC programs our school system uses. This not only causes conflicts with my capabilities to connect to WiFi, I have problems with glitches and slow speed. Furthermore, my students have problems connecting with me at times which causes needless added stress for all parties involved.

My students deserve better than this. It would be such a dream come true to be able to connect and deliver instruction without all the frustration we endure on a daily basis. A Surface Pro would be the solution to all the problems I am currently facing in the delivery of my instruction in Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Extended Foreign Language.

Mrs. Calabresi Ruth Broad/Bay Harbor K-8 Center Grades 3-5

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Bay Harbor Islands, FL View local requests 25 students impacted 29donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Microsoft Surface Pro 7 - 12.3' - Core i7 1065G7 - 16 GB RAM - 256 GB SSD • Best Buy Education $1,402.82 1 $1,402.82
Microsoft Surface Slim Pen - stylus - black • Best Buy Education $124.23 1 $124.23

Materials cost

$1,527.05

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$22.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,579.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$278.82

Total project goal

$1,858.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,858.78

27 Donors

-$1,420.00

Donations toward project cost

-$1,252.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$167.25

match offer

-$384.95

Match offer toward project cost

-$327.21

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$53.82

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