Help me give my students an updated classroom library with new and important themes!
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Owens's classroom raised $912
This project is fully funded
My Students
I am a special education teacher in a self-contained autistic classroom in a Title I school. 95% of the students in our school qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. There are lots challenges each school year meeting the needs of the students academically, socially, and emotionally.
My students, who fall all across the autism spectrum, and struggle with communication skills and academic achievement, still come to school, work hard, and do their best no matter what obstacles they face.
They have a desire to achieve their goals and we do everything we can in the classroom to help them get there!
My Project
A lot of classroom libraries tend to include books that teachers are able to get their hands on for free, or in big lots from teachers who are retiring. But these books are often out of date, dog-eared, torn, and otherwise worn out.
When you put a book in a child's hand and teach them they can read it, you actually teach them they are capable of anything.
But when they are reading the same old and tired books, in which many of the children aren't even represented, they quickly loose interest.
We've been working on learning to read books all year. We've been learning the pages inside have a special story with important lessons. The students have been excited to sit with a teacher and read a book together. We have seen scores go up, we've seen comprehension get stronger, and we've seen the excitement to learn light up in their faces, and that has been inspiring to watch.
Some of the included themes in the selected books include empathy, individuality, understanding feelings and emotions, different abilities, and including others. So many important lessons that need to be taught in today's classrooms. Many lessons that I want to pass on to my students.
Please help us bring our classroom library up to date and get some brand new books into my students' hands!
More than half 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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