This week, we're helping to provide math kits for first-graders in an Orlando, Florida classroom and required scrub uniforms for pharmacy technician program students at a Houston, Texas high school. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help these teachers and students by sharing or supporting our featured projects.
The Inoculation Project is an ongoing, volunteer effort to crowdfund science and math projects for red-state public schools in low-income neighborhoods. As always, our conduit is DonorsChoose.org, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that facilitates tax-deductible donations to specific, vetted projects in public schools.
Let’s help spend a 2x match offer to provide math fluency kits — Use Doubles, Get to Ten, and Use Known Facts — for first graders at an elementary school in Orlando, Florida.
MAIN PROJECT
Resources: Help me give my students Hand2Mind Daily Math fluency kit for first graders.
Economic need: Nearly all students from low‑income households
Location: Meadow Woods Elementary School, Orlando, Florida
Total: $297.99 (2x match offer)
Still Needed: $235.09 Completed, thank you! We’ll be back on Sunday with more projects.
Teacher’s Comments from Mrs. Ayala:
My Students: My class is made up of a diverse group of 18 students from a Title I school that enjoy learning and having fun.
My students are full of energy and love to play, discover and learn new things.
Our school consists of a very large English language learner population. 100% of our students receive free breakfast and free lunch.
Marie Curie said, "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
My Project: The Hand2Mind math fluency kit will help my scholars build number sense in 10 minutes a day with math talk and number strings The large size manipulatives will help demonstrate key math concepts.
The math talk is designed to elicit multiple strategies and provide opportunities for my students to reason relationship in numbers.
The number string is a set of related math problems designed to teach my students' strategies based on number relationships. The Hand2Mind math fluency kit will definitely make a huge difference in improving my scholar's math skills.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
Let’s also take advantage of a 3x match offer to help provide new scrub uniforms, which are required for a pharmacy externship, to pharmacy technician program students at a high school in Houston, Texas.
LONG-TERM PROJECT
Resources: Help me give my students scrub uniforms so they can be career ready!
Economic need: More than three-quarters of students from low‑income households
Location: Chavez High School, Houston, Texas
Total: $694.01 (3x match offer!)
Still Needed: $589.01 Completed, thank you!
Teacher’s Comments from Ms. Pineda:
My Students: Our students are hard-working students whose families care a lot about their success. They come from low socio-economic backgrounds, with almost every student qualifying for free or reduced-cost lunch. Over 90 percent are Hispanic, and many of them will be the first person in their family to graduate from college.
My students are inspired to continue their education and get certified as pharmacy technicians this school year.
Let us think of CTE education as the means of developing our greatest abilities because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
My Project: My pharmacy technician program students are in need of new scrubs, which are required for their pharmacy externship. Our CTE program has been successful and we want to continue supporting our students and provide the materials needed for success.
Many of my students do not have the resources to buy their uniforms and need your support to help them succeed.
I take great care in making sure my students dress properly for their training and future career. Thank you for your generosity to support our pharmacy technician students and showing them how much adults care for them.
Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference!
Thanks to the generous assistance of our readers, both of last week’s project have already been completed! Here are the teachers’ thank-you notes (my emphasis):
It's Time to Learn About Time!
Thank you so much for all your donations. I really appreciate your support and for helping me provide these clocks for my students. I would also like to thank Daily Kos for featuring my project and all the donors from there that donated. My heart is full of happiness to see so many kind people supporting my students so that they can have their educational materials. Thank you so much!
With gratitude,
Mrs. Carrero
Now N' Later-Make Learning Sweet at Home and School
Your generosity is one more thing I've found to be thankful for this year! As my students and I face an uncertain future of will we return to the classroom in January or not due to climbing COVID-19 infection rates in our area your kindness will make it possible for my young students to be successful regardless of where learning takes place. In person or virtual learning will be happening in our classroom!
Additional thanks to the Daily Kos for unbeknownst to me selecting this class project as the long term giving project of the week. The impact on the educational outcomes in my classroom from that random act of kindness will be immeasurable this year!
With gratitude,
Ms. McCoy
Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project combats the anti-science push in conservative America by funding science and math projects in traditionally red-state classrooms and libraries. Our conduit is DonorsChoose.org, a crowdfunding charity founded in 2000 and highly rated by both Charity Navigator and the Better Business Bureau.
Every Sunday, we focus on helping to fund science or math projects, preferably in neighborhood public schools where the overwhelming majority of students come from low-income households. We welcome everyone who supports public school education — no money is required!
Finally, here’s our list of successfully funded projects — our series total is 864! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.org.