Sensory support
Headphones and sensory tools that help students feel comfortable and ready to learn.
Growing Great Minds
Helping special needs classrooms flourish
Growing Great Minds is a classroom sponsorship program for special-needs classrooms within local DFW school districts.
Practical support for local classrooms
Each month, Growing Great Minds can highlight a teacher or classroom, their school or ISD, their story, requested resources, and progress toward a practical goal.
What a classroom may need
Visual learning
Visual aids, books, and classroom materials that make routines and lessons more accessible.
Adaptive supplies
Adaptive supplies and practical resources selected for a classroom’s specific needs.
Everyday necessities
Diapers and other classroom necessities that teachers and students rely on each day.
Choose how you’d like to help
Plant a Seed — $25
Includes an impact card and a shareable digital graphic recognizing your classroom sponsorship.
Help It Grow — $50
Includes the signature The Spectrum bouquet, an impact card, and a shareable sponsor graphic.
Growing Great Minds — $100
Includes The Spectrum bouquet, an impact card, Growing Great Minds sticker decal, shareable digital graphic, and website recognition.
Choose Your Own Amount
Choose your amount. At $500 or more, benefits include the signature The Spectrum vase with specialty vase, impact card, sticker decal, digital graphic, website recognition, and a social media shout out.
How Growing Great Minds works
Meet the classroom
Learn about the featured special-needs classroom, teacher, school, and students.
See what they need
Review the requested resources and the goal for the month.
Choose how you’d like to help
Select a sponsorship level or choose your own amount.
Resources are fulfilled and delivered
Flourishing Minds purchases and delivers the requested classroom resources.
Mrs. May’s Classroom
Burleson ISD
Meet Mrs. May, an Early Childhood Special Education teacher in Burleson ISD. This is her eighth year teaching and her fourth in a self-contained classroom. She supports each student academically, developmentally, behaviorally, socially, and functionally.
Her students have a wide range of sensory, communication, behavioral, social, developmental, and learning needs. In this classroom, books and toys can support turn-taking, sharing, imitation, pretend play, and communication. Visual supports help students understand their day and communicate needs, while sensory tools can help them regulate and participate in learning.
Classroom materials are used every day, so books, toys, sensory materials, fidgets, visuals, laminating supplies, and other supports wear out and need replacing. Mrs. May sometimes purchases materials herself when the classroom does not have what her students need.
The $2,500 goal will help provide practical classroom resources for current students and future students for years to come, supporting learning, participation, communication, regulation, and functional life skills.
Her students have a wide range of sensory, communication, behavioral, social, developmental, and learning needs. In this classroom, books and toys can support turn-taking, sharing, imitation, pretend play, and communication. Visual supports help students understand their day and communicate needs, while sensory tools can help them regulate and participate in learning.
Classroom materials are used every day, so books, toys, sensory materials, fidgets, visuals, laminating supplies, and other supports wear out and need replacing. Mrs. May sometimes purchases materials herself when the classroom does not have what her students need.
The $2,500 goal will help provide practical classroom resources for current students and future students for years to come, supporting learning, participation, communication, regulation, and functional life skills.
Support Growing Great Minds
Choose an amount and support the featured classroom directly.
Classroom funding goal
Current raised: $0Goal: $2,500Remaining: $2,500
Resources this goal can support
Books, toys, visual and communication supports, sensory materials and fidgets, laminating supplies, and functional learning activities.
Help a local classroom flourish
Support the featured classroom, nominate a classroom, or help more people discover the program.
Plant a Seed
Nominate a Classroom
Share the Program
A separate way to create impact
Growing Great Minds is separate from the monthly Flourishing Focus. It is dedicated specifically to classroom sponsorship and requested school resources.
Helping special-needs classrooms flourish
Meet the classroom, see what they need, and choose how you would like to help.
Nominate a Classroom
Teachers, school staff, parents and community members can submit a special-needs classroom for consideration.