Facing Tight Budgets, Rockford Area Teachers Raise More Than $15,000 to Fund Classroom Projects
ROCKFORD – Laura Lindquist, a pre-school teacher at Rockford’s Circles of Learning day care center, has raised more than $3,300 to fund several projects that help three- and four-year-olds to learn through the use of all their senses. “My students are creative, curious, inventive and active,” Lindquist said. “I have a fun, energetic room and I am trying to provide the most active curriculum possible.” Rockford Horace Mann agent Gary Lutes contributed to one of the projects through DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization