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. Avila’s Classroom Edit display name

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Avila a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Ms. Avila's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Avila a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Give to a project to support this classroom.

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/8133985 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
I need If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition to help lift voices of color in my curriculum and teaching practice. This book aligns to our goals of equity and 9th grade year. Jacqueline Woodson's work has been called “moving and resonant” (Wall Street Journal) and “gorgeous” (Vanity Fair). If You Come Softly is a powerful story of interracial love that leaves readers wondering "why" and "if only . . ." This book is a lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson--now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author addresses topics like race and belonging. Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit together--even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. This book will provide a curriculum that will help students see themselves in my curriculum and classroom. I strive to have more inclusive classroom materials to drive me to a more equitable, just, and kind teacher. This book will affirm and reflect students’ identities and to help facilitate important conversations about equity, racism, and belonging. Fighting racism and injustice is a lifelong journey of understanding ourselves, our power, our history and the role we play in perpetuating it.

About my class

I need If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition to help lift voices of color in my curriculum and teaching practice. This book aligns to our goals of equity and 9th grade year. Jacqueline Woodson's work has been called “moving and resonant” (Wall Street Journal) and “gorgeous” (Vanity Fair). If You Come Softly is a powerful story of interracial love that leaves readers wondering "why" and "if only . . ." This book is a lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson--now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author addresses topics like race and belonging. Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock, and after that they know they fit together--even though she's Jewish and he's black. Their worlds are so different, but to them that's not what matters. Too bad the rest of the world has to get in their way. This book will provide a curriculum that will help students see themselves in my curriculum and classroom. I strive to have more inclusive classroom materials to drive me to a more equitable, just, and kind teacher. This book will affirm and reflect students’ identities and to help facilitate important conversations about equity, racism, and belonging. Fighting racism and injustice is a lifelong journey of understanding ourselves, our power, our history and the role we play in perpetuating it.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":8133985,"teacherId":8133985,"teacherName":"Ms. Avila","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-3_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":21833554,"followAbout":"Ms. Avila's projects","teacherVerify":-1753544788,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Avila","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/8133985","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=8133985","stats":{"numActiveProjects":1,"numFundedProjects":12,"numSupporters":57},"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.