Donors Choose

IUPUI is a proud partner of Donors Choose, a web site that works with public school teachers to give them the resources they need. IUPUI will work with one project a month within our partnering schools to help make an impact on the children. IUPUI knows the challenges that both IPS students and teachers face throughout the year and IUPUI will work with them.

October 2010 Donors Choose Project

Thank you to everyone for donating to our last project. Because of your generous donations a 4th grade class at School #15 received a great program to help children improve their math skills.

For October, our project is at Thomas Gregg Elementary School (IPS School #15) and focuses on another tremendously important cause, reading. Mrs. K is to purchase “Learn to Read” assorted packs of books for her 6th grade students can achieve a higher level of reading comprehension. Mrs. K states the following

“This year our school adopted a new approach to teaching reading called Balanced Literacy. Balanced Literacy has great success in raising achievement levels in reading across the nation. In order to ensure success of all of my students I need to provide a variety of reading material and a wide variety of levels, genres, and topics.

As we all know, reading is an important part of our daily lives. In one way or another all of our learning revolves around some form of reading. It is essential that my students raise their reading levels and the best way to make this happen is to provide books that are "Just Right" for them. I have requested sets of books at different levels, genres, and interests.

My vision for this new program is to have students reading, discussing, and most of all enjoying books! I can accomplish this by providing opportunities and materials for all of my students to feel successful in reading. By contributing to this project you will help my students become excited about reading and truly understand the joy that comes from it. By providing books that are on the students' level we will make an impact in all of their future learning.”

You can donate to this incredibly important project by going to the donation page.