Donors Choose Winners

Utilizing the crowd-funding site, DonorsChoose.org, the State of Oklahoma awarded up to $1,000 in Federal COVID Relief funding to Oklahoma classroom teachers’ projects requesting resources to support students in response to COVID-19. Oklahoma educators in grades PK-12th grade were encouraged to create a project to request classroom resources, such as supplies, technology, and instructional materials to support students’ social, emotional, and mental well-being as well as the impacts of interrupted academic learning as a result of COVID-19. 

Seventeen teachers from Cordell Schools had the following classroom projects funded as part of this program.

  • Jodi Jackson, Spanish - Colorful Spanish Vocabulary: Learning with a Color Printer

  • Kathy Wedel, Gifted and Talented - STEM for Gifted Classes!

  • Jalee Victory, Family and Consumer Science - Social Emotional Learning for Big Kids

  • Anna Makuch, JH Science & Robotics - Unleash the STEAM: Igniting Student Potential with Cutting-Edge Equipment

  • Jill Dages, JH English - Flexible Seating for Flexible Students

  • Kendon Owens, First Grade - Mrs. Owen's Fan-Cactus Class Needs

  • Rhagan Hill, Third Grade - Learning Beyond Desks

  • Cara Regier, Pre-K - Biscuit Books in Backpacks

  • Allison Russell, Fourth Grade - Decluttering and Sharpening Our Minds

  • LeeAnn Blackburn, Fifth & Sixth Grade - Our Happy Place

  • Anna Feltman, Third Grade - Not Another Movie

  • Debra Hougland, First Grade - Charged for Learning

  • Lisa Holland, Fourth Grade- Individualized Instruction for Small Group

  • Allee Merrill, Fifth & Sixth Grade - Calming Classroom Environment for All

  • Janette Candelaria, Third Grade- Oh the Places They'll Go

  • Lisa Griffith, First Grade- Charging Forward

  • Diane Igo, Special Education - New Classroom