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The Inoculation Project 3/19/2023: Missouri Books, Dallas Design Project [1]

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Date: 2023-03-19

This teacher in Kansas City, MO needs books for her first, second, and third grade students, and I think you’re going to like her description of what she’s looking for! And for now, there are matching funds to help: Donations to this project are now being matched, thanks to support from Phillips 66®.

PROJECT #1 Project: We Need More Books of Substance! Resources: Help me give my students books that help to lift them up in literature and science. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households. Location: Holliday Montessori Magnet School, Kansas City, Missouri Total: $533.48 (2x matching funds from Phillips 66) Still Needed: $ 533.48 $323.48 ($162 from us) Project description by Teacher Hill: I am a veteran teacher but new to a Montessori classroom. I will be teaching first, second, and third graders in an inner-city school. We are teaching and offering lessons on the first human beings, biology, botany, and poetry. We need books that will support these lessons and give them literature that elevates and challenges their thinking instead of it being very primary. We want to have books that are jumping off points to critical thinking of how the world and the earth works and that will inspire their writing. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! Here are a couple of the many books that are part of this request. Some, like this one, are science-oriented. x x YouTube Video Also requested: Stacey Abrams’ autobiographical storybook about a little girl who loves words, read here by Stacey Abrams herself. x x YouTube Video

This Dallas project for Gifted and Talented elementary-school kids is pretty ambitious for us, but it’s not just any Lego project, and I bet we will get some help from other donors when we create some activity. It’s just been sitting here for quite a while, so let’s take a shot at revving it up!

PROJECT #2 Project: Lego Team Resources: Help me give my students the creative outlet to build sustainable homes through Legos. Economic need: An Equity Focus School; nearly all students from low‑income households. Location: Ebby Halliday Elementary School, Dallas, Texas Total: $703.58 Still Needed: $ 428.58 $323.58 Project description by Mrs. Mohtadi: Gifted and Talented students in 4th and 5th grade create a sustainable home project. With your donation, students can build sustainable homes by using Lego Bricks encouraging them to be STEM learners and leaders. Students can be architects thinking of ways to help build a better future. With your donation, it will be possible for my students to have a hands-on experience, using their imagination, critical thinking, and engineering process to help build a better way of life. Students will think of creative ways to conserve, recycle, and reuse precious resources our Earth gives us. DONATE HERE Donations of ANY size can make a BIG difference! Since everyone knows what Lego look like, I thought we could see a couple of sustainable homes instead. Here’s a carbon-negative modular home, and the company near Seattle that makes them. x x YouTube Video This Australian architect was designing an off-grid sustainable home for a client; when they bailed, he bought the lot himself and built his design for his own family. x x YouTube Video

Both of our projects from last week were completed, thanks in large part to our readers’ persistent efforts! Project #1, To Fear or Not to Fear: Macbeth: Ms. Jabak’s Houston high school class will be reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and she wanted each student to have a real book rather than an online pdf file, and one that could offer some additional help to understand the unfamiliar language. [My bold] She writes: I’m ecstatic to see that my project got funded in a single day thanks to Daily Kos! I’m a little puzzled as to how you heard about my project, but I genuinely appreciate your support as I empower my students in the classroom.

Thank you for your generosity! Project #2, Summer Learning: Mrs. Kersey teaches first grade in Arkansas, and she’s thinking ahead to how to keep her students from losing ground over the summer, by giving them books of their own to keep. She writes: I am absolutely thrilled to be able to send my students home with books and practice materials to help them prepare for next school year. These sweet babies are going to be so excited! Thank you so much for making this happen for my sweet babies. They deserve so much more than they have.

DonorsChoose has developed the designation Equity Focus Schools to describe some schools that submit projects. They meet two criteria: at least 50% of students are Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, or multiracial, and at least 50% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, the standard measure for school economic need. You can read more at the link about their efforts to address the longstanding inequity in education.

Founded in 2009, The Inoculation Project combats the anti-science, anti-education push in conservative America by funding science, math, and literacy projects in red-state public school classrooms and libraries. Our conduit is DonorsChoose, 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 projects 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 1020! The success-list diary also contains links and additional information about DonorsChoose.

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