Help Me Help My Students

I am not a huge go fund me person. Don't get me wrong, I've donated to plenty of go fund me campaigns, and yes, I've even dreamed of creating one to get rid of my incredible student loan debt, but I've never felt comfortable doing it. Like I said, I support others and have donated plenty, but doing it for myself has felt akin to begging. Well that changed today - kind of. There is an amazing curriculum I want to get for my students, but it costs over $2200.00 - I cannot afford to pay for that, and neither can my school or my school district. So I decided to bite the bullet so to speak and start my very own GoFundMe campaign to get this curriculum. It's an amazing program, teaching many character traits including integrity, tolerance, gratitude, courage, perseverance, honesty and respect. The Character Development & Leadership Curriculum utilizes a consistent set of 10 lesson plans to teach each of the 18 character trait modules. This is both the simplicity and the beauty of this curriculum. It’s what the teachers love and the students come to rely on. Once the students understand the 10 lesson plans, they…

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Can You Please Help

What is Donors Choose?  Donorschoose.org is a nonprofit that connects public school teachers with people who want to support classroom learning.   My Students: Some students love school and love learning and have everything they need to be successful learners. I want my students to have what they need to be successful learners. My students are in a special education program in an urban school. Half the time they come to school hungry, never mind with proper school supplies. Free and reduced lunches gets them the food, it's up to me to get them the supplies they need to become active learners. My Project: My students come to school with nothing, no notebooks, pens, pencils or paper. What they have, I've provided. They can be successful, but they need the basic tools. They are also so creative, and providing them with art supplies can channel their creativity to appropriate projects. We also just got two computers in our room, but we had nothing to put them on, so we had to use our existing student tables. The computer carts will give us a place to use the computers and give us back our tables to use for seating. My students…

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