You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Ms. Brick’s Classroom Edit display name

  • Vieau School
  • Milwaukee, WI
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households

Your custom url is https://www.donorschoose.org/brick

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
When my students think of people that are successful, many people they would consider "successful" do not look, act, or talk like them. I want to supply my classroom with culturally relevant books such as The Underground Railroad, Fahrenheit 451, and Go Tell It on the Mountain and lessons so that my students can identify their own stories, struggles, and life in the literature they are reading and the topics they are learning about. I want to empower them to know that their culture and community is important and that they play an important role in our community, our city, and our world. I hope to incorporate culturally competent literature* into lessons that surface the layers and parts of students' lives often overpowered by a common classroom curriculum. I want to create a space where students can analyze and name the details of their own lives as well as identify commonalities in the struggles of the lives of others. All of this in hopes of creating a classroom community and culture that cultivates respect and high expectations for each other as well as a desire to positively influence our community and world by weaving our stories together. In the words of Lauryn Hill, "In these days of tension, tumult, and transition, an exchange of this kind can yield direction, expression, understanding and empowerment as well as connection, self-love, and appreciation that hopefully overflows into our respective communities."

About my class

When my students think of people that are successful, many people they would consider "successful" do not look, act, or talk like them. I want to supply my classroom with culturally relevant books such as The Underground Railroad, Fahrenheit 451, and Go Tell It on the Mountain and lessons so that my students can identify their own stories, struggles, and life in the literature they are reading and the topics they are learning about. I want to empower them to know that their culture and community is important and that they play an important role in our community, our city, and our world. I hope to incorporate culturally competent literature* into lessons that surface the layers and parts of students' lives often overpowered by a common classroom curriculum. I want to create a space where students can analyze and name the details of their own lives as well as identify commonalities in the struggles of the lives of others. All of this in hopes of creating a classroom community and culture that cultivates respect and high expectations for each other as well as a desire to positively influence our community and world by weaving our stories together. In the words of Lauryn Hill, "In these days of tension, tumult, and transition, an exchange of this kind can yield direction, expression, understanding and empowerment as well as connection, self-love, and appreciation that hopefully overflows into our respective communities."

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":3806634,"teacherId":3806634,"teacherName":"Ms. Brick","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3806634_272x272.jpg?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1472197692172","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"brick","teacherChallengeId":20827010,"followAbout":"Ms. Brick's projects","teacherVerify":-686117155,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Brick","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/brick","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=3806634","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":1,"numSupporters":10},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.