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  • Clawson Elementary School
  • Clawson, MI
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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My goal is to continue adding to our books to create an environment that allows students to shape their ideas through acts of literacy. Students will have confidence in reading, writing, and sharing their ideas. This confidence will transfer to other spaces in and out of the classroom. These books are chosen to speak to students' multiple identities instead of solely selecting texts based on their reading identities; these identities include racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, kinship, personal and community. Together with our K-3rd grade teachers, I'd like to use these books to plan historically responsive lesson plans for read alouds. In 2018 the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison collected statistics on the diversity of children's books depicting characters from diverse backgrounds. They found that 1% of books represented American Indians/First Nations, 5% Latinx populations, 7% Asian Pacific Islander/Asian Pacific American, 10% African or African Americans, and 50% represented White characters. Students feel disconnected from texts and providing diverse books is a way I can begin to address this.

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My goal is to continue adding to our books to create an environment that allows students to shape their ideas through acts of literacy. Students will have confidence in reading, writing, and sharing their ideas. This confidence will transfer to other spaces in and out of the classroom. These books are chosen to speak to students' multiple identities instead of solely selecting texts based on their reading identities; these identities include racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, kinship, personal and community. Together with our K-3rd grade teachers, I'd like to use these books to plan historically responsive lesson plans for read alouds. In 2018 the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison collected statistics on the diversity of children's books depicting characters from diverse backgrounds. They found that 1% of books represented American Indians/First Nations, 5% Latinx populations, 7% Asian Pacific Islander/Asian Pacific American, 10% African or African Americans, and 50% represented White characters. Students feel disconnected from texts and providing diverse books is a way I can begin to address this.

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