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Ms. Clemons from Casa Grande AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Anti-Racist Classrooms

Help me give my students books that connect their identities to Social Studies Curriculum! Teaching Arizona State Standards through relevant information and powerful Anti-Racist voices.

  • $3,357 goal

This project expired on July 21, 2020.

This project expired on July 21, 2020.

My Students

My students from Casa Grande, Arizona are living in a world that is growing to be more diverse than what their parents and I grew up in. As we ditch the text-book in our Social Studies classroom, my students are enjoying learning about their own identities while being able to see themselves in the curriculum that I teach.

Our new Arizona state standards ask students to make connections between historical and current/recent issues as a base for implementing change in society.

Students will recognize and practice their roles and responsibilities as both American and global citizens. With that being said, students are also learning about Civil rights movements throughout American history such as African-Americans, Latinx, Asian-Americans, women, American Indians, LGBTQ individuals, persons with disabilities, youth, and the elderly.

Each teenager in my classroom loves learning when it can be connected to their contemporary issues and interests. I believe that incorporating the two books "This Book is Anti-Racist" and "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You" will teach students how to better understand "why we are where we are."

My Project

Teaching History through Anti-Racist texts are vital to Decolonizing History Curriculum. Now more than ever, our Students of Color need to be represented in the content they're learning about. The texts chosen for this project put Anti-Racism first, and teach students what transformative action look like.

When students come into my middle school classroom, they're coming in with their own histories and experiences that need to be acknowledged and validated.

These two texts are accessible for the range of readers in the classroom. Both books are geared toward the teenage readers, and are interactive.

I'm asking for 100 copies of each book so that every seventh and eighth grade Social Studies teacher has a class set. With classrooms numbers that have gone up to 42, it's important that every student has their own copy to read. It's necessary that we are using these critical texts in the classroom.

Ms. Clemons
Never Before Funded Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning • Amazon Business $14.10 100 $1,410.00
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work • Amazon Business $11.88 100 $1,188.00

Materials cost

$2,598.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$185.76

3rd party payment processing fee

$38.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,852.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$503.42

Total project goal

$3,356.15

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