Hi all, my name is Julia, I'm a recent college graduate, and starting this fall I will be teaching high school Special Education English! A little bit more about me, I'm from Pilsen, a neighborhood on Chicago's near Southwest side, and attended college at Columbia University in New York, where I studied English and Ethnicity and Race Studies on a Pre-law track. However, my passion for my community and education brought me back to Chicago where I will be teaching at Al Raby High School for Community and Environment. I am incredibly happy with the school and want to maintain their standard of excellence in my own classroom. Every dollar donated will be used to buy materials for the students to use, resources to make the space as welcoming and accommodating as possible, and the other small teacher needs that are hard to anticipate.

With these funds I will buy materials to transform the classroom space into a warm and welcoming environment for the students, as well as provide material resources when needed. For kids to learn they need to feel safe and supported, and they need to be prepared. The donations made here will help me do that.

What this looks like specifically:

Extra paper

Notebooks

Pens and pencils

Hand sanitizer

Tissues

Markers/Crayons

Healthy snacks

Craft materials to decorate the space fort the first day of school

This is just amongst all the other unpredictable needs of the classroom!

As cliched as it sounds, every single dollar helps. Thank you!

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