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Within days of Landa's request being posted on Bell's Instagram page, the teacher's Amazon wish list was nearly filled.

\"People were able to send a note with each thing they bought and I was just sitting there crying, overwhelmed with what people were saying,\" Landa recalled. \"There was even a girl who is 16 and took her own money and bought me a book.\"

\"She said she wants to become a music teacher and the fact that a 16-year-old was supporting me, it put me in tears,\" she said.

Landa, who teaches more than 100 students, had previously used a pen and paper to track students' data but now has a laptop to use thanks to strangers who saw her plea on Bell's Instagram.

\"I'm really happy because it'll really benefit my students and that's my number one goal,\" she said. \"I can change my entire curriculum and implement the books and everything else I've received.\"

Bell, a mother of two, began to highlight teachers last September in a series she called #10featuredteachers. She then began featuring a different teacher every Friday.

Her most recent post, featuring a fourth grade teacher from Texas, received more than 40,000 likes and dozens of comments.

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\"Lanie's wishlist will be in my bio. Oh, and I love you guys,\" Bell wrote in the caption.

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