Help a Teacher Out!
One of my Knowles Science Teaching Foundation colleagues, a fellow first year biology teacher, is currently in her first year teaching in an urban school in Seattle. She teaches a diverse, low SES student population with lots of English Language Learners. When the school year began this year, her students (she has a total of 162!) were sitting on the floor because there were no chairs or tables.
Her school has not been able to provide her with any of the basic teaching supplies she needs, so she turned to Donors Choose. She was able to get her first proposal—for Post-Its, pens, colored pencils, and other basics—funded last week, and she is really excited about having these supplies on hand for her kids.
I would love to see the Tumblr community offer some support by heading over to Donors Choose and supporting her two other proposals. She is in need of shelves to help her organize the 162 student binders in her classroom: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=651354.
She teaches Human Body Systems, and her students would benefit tremendously from having access to a quality model. The curriculum her school uses builds lots of activities and lessons around models, but her school has not been able to provide her with any. A quality human torso model would be invaluable in helping her students gain an understanding of physiology: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=651082.
I’m really lucky. My school has more resources than we know what to do with. Not everyone is. Ms. H is a tremendously dedicated, brilliant young biology teacher, and her students deserve to have access to the same supplies my students do. Please take a second and visit her Donors Choose proposals.
I pretty much never post stuff like this, but my mom's classroom could really use help.
My mom is a kindergarten teacher in a high poverty school. She has 26 students that simply love to learn. Unfortunately the school doesn’t have a great budget.
If you guys could just check this out that would be great. Obviously you don’t have to donate anything, but if you can spare something that would be really, really great.
I just wanted to help her spread the word by making use of the social networking sites I know.
Thanks so much! :)
http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=618729&verify=-349098791&challengeid=32163
Stephen & Donor's Choose
fastcompany.com“A day doesn’t go by that Stephen Colbert doesn’t do something for DonorsChoose,”Charles Best told me over a recent lunch. Best is the Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose, an online charity that makes it easy to help students in need through school donations. Colbert serves on the board.
Best explained that every evening, Colbert gives a DonorsChoose gift card to his Colbert Report guests. The gift cards, for which Colbert has already paid, gives guests an opportunity to go online to choose where the contribution will go. The idea is that once guests start looking at the teachers and their requests on the DonorsChoose site, they will continue giving on their own, and perhaps even start giving gift cards themselves.
Ugh, I can’t even with this man. Hearts in my eyes. <3333
This is unbelievable! Thank you! (DonorsChoose)
Our DonorsChoose project to provide science fiction novels to my cooperating teacher’s 10th-grade English Language Arts classroom in a high-poverty school is already over 50% funded.
We are almost to the finish line - in fewer than EIGHT HOURS.
Help us fully cross it - the kids are going to flip!
Signal boosts, reblobs, a fiver our way - anything counts.
Thank you guys SO MUCH for taking us there already!!!!
DonorsChoose.org
donorschoose.orgI wanna take a few minutes to tell you guys about this very amazing website and organisation called DonorsChoose.
DonorsChoose is a charity that allows teachers to set up profiles for projects that they want to do in the classroom. Anything from plays to lectures and special lessons. They list the products that they need, and these and their prices are verified by DC staff. You then get to go on the website, browse around, and donate to whatever project you want.
If you know me, you know how strong of an advocate for public education I am, and I can’t think of any way that supports public education more directly than this. You actually get to contribute to making a teacher’s project for his or her students come to fruition.
I just donated $50 to two projects. One is called Shakespeare Lives! and its purpose is the introduction of Shakespeare’s works to middle-schoolers through texts that make his writing easy to decipher and fun to read. I really think that’s an awesome way to both get kids reading and get kids into theatre. I also chose it because The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matches donations, and it’s a school in Florida. I felt a need to support both the Arts and education in my own state.
The other project I chose seeks to teach students critical thinking and correct misconceptions about American history. The teacher wants copies of the book Lies My Teacher Told Me so that they will learn certain truths about American history that tend to get overlooked or mis-taught. A project that teaches kids to question authority? Fuck yeah.
I know $50 may seem a lot, and to a lot of people it is and I’m not exactly rich, but instead of spending my money on food or other shit I don’t need, I think investing in the future is a pretty good expenditure.
Donors Choose Project
Hi, I have a Donors Choose Project for a new carpet in the Library. The old one is falling apart and is responsible for breaking one vacuum!! Luckily, the Board of Directors is matching grants this week, so if you donate, please remember to enter the code, PUMPKIN, when you check out.
Help me reach my Donors Choose goal!!
Hey tumblr!
I’m trying to purchase enough notebooks, glue bottles, scissors, and other materials so that my kids can make interactive science notebooks this year! My students will spend the entire year turning these plain old composition notebooks that you and others help me purchase into interactive science masterpieces full of notes, summaries, poems, drawings, diagrams, lab data, and other creative projects.
Unfortunately, my school has a very limited budget and only gives its teachers $160.00 to purchase all of their supplies each year. I use this money to purchase printer ink and copy paper (that in it self will only last a quarter of the year). So instead of resigning to the ordinary and having my kids read the textbook and take boring notes in their spiral notebooks, I have set up a DONORS CHOOSE project because I want my kids to have something that they are proud of and can take ownership over.
ANY contribution to my project is very much appreciated by me and by my kids (whether they want to admit it or not). All you have to do is go to this link: http://www.donorschoose.org/project/science-notebooking-aiding-in-organizat/821008/ and follow the steps to donate.
It’s super easy and, again, ANY donation matters! THANK YOU in advance for your support!
Art Room in Need
donorschoose.orgI love my tumblr education community! Second donation thanks to a reblog from msleahhbic!
My Giving Page
donorschoose.orgDonorsChoose.org is a site that helps teachers who are in need of items in their classrooms. My mom is a teacher, and so education has always been a very big part of my life. I love donating to her projects, as well as others that I support, whenever I can.
I also like doing my part to spread the word. I can do that by sharing my giving page, which holds the projects that I support. Right now I have 2 projects on the page. One is my mom’s, and the other is a cause very dear to my heart—Harry Potter. Well, as an avid reader and Harry Potter fan, I’m happy to support projects that involve both reading and Harry Potter.
I’ve donated to both, but since I obviously cannot afford to fully fund any project, I’d like to share the projects, and hopefully it reaches people who can afford to donate. A little a lot, it doesn’t matter. Every little bit counts.
Thank you so much for your time, and I do hope you can check out these projects. They’re well worth a look.
