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Ms. Menchini from Brooklyn, NY is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need Learning Allies!

Help me give my students unlimited access to over 80,000 human-read audiobooks to help support them in improving their literacy skills.

  • $1,945 goal

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Ms. Menchini has another project! Donate to Help Yearbook Club Capture Memories With a High-Quality Camera! to help her classroom.

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Ms. Menchini has another project! Donate to Help Yearbook Club Capture Memories With a High-Quality Camera! to help her classroom.

$811 - complete this project and be a hero

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Sunset Park has one of the most robust immigrant communities in New York City. We are a middle school that serves about 550 students from sixth through eighth grade. We are a community school, and a majority of our students and their families live and work in the Sunset Park area. At our school, 93% of students receive free or reduced-priced lunch, and 25% of our population are students with special needs.

Many of the students in our school struggle with reading and writing, which impacts their success across all subject areas.

We are constantly looking for new strategies and resources to assist us in providing support for our students in order for them to access various texts across various content areas. One support in particular that has been extremely impactful is the ability to offer our students audio support, which has allowed many students to access and comprehend texts well beyond their reading levels.

My Project

It is easy to take for granted the ability to look at any text and be able to read and understand it. However, for many of our students, their struggle to do exactly this affects them every single day in every single subject.

When students have difficulty with reading, rigorous schoolwork becomes exponentially more challenging.

To add on to that, a lack of resources in education means that oftentimes, reading disabilities go undiagnosed. Learning Ally is a educational tool that provides over 80,000 human-read audiobooks, and the ability to highlight text, define words, change the font to make it easier to read--among many other supports that will help our students to access texts across all content areas.

Being able to provide audio support to our struggling readers has been invaluable in helping them to succeed in class and improve their literacy skills. With a school-wide Learning Ally license, we will be able to provide every single one of our students with access to audio support and ensure that all students have equal opportunities to learn and to succeed.

Ms. Menchini Middle School 821 Sunset Park Preparatory School Grades 6-8

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.

More about Ms. Menchini

Brooklyn, NY 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

550 students impacted 23donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Learning Ally Building License • Learning Ally $1,599.00 1 $1,599.00

Materials cost

$1,599.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$23.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,652.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$291.70

Total project goal

$1,944.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,944.68

20 Donors

-$1,909.07

Donations toward project cost

-$1,629.61

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$279.46

match offer

-$27.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$23.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.12

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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