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Ms. Pruden from Durham, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Black Minds Matter

Help me give my students books that show them their lives and voices matter.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Pruden's classroom raised $396

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

I teach 18 amazing third graders in a K-5 Title I elementary school that serves 650 students. 100% of these students received free and reduced-price lunch. Many of my students face challenges inside and outside the classroom. Despite many of my students being below grade level, they come to school ready to face new challenges, move forward, and learn.

I strive to create a classroom environment with high expectations that is safe, stable, engaging and a place students can grow.

I work hard to make lessons relevant and meaningful to their lives and personal experiences to motivate my students to take ownership of their education. I would like the opportunity to provide this experience by ensuring my students have all the resources and supplies that will help them continue to grow and love learning.

My Project

Representation in children's books is important for all students regardless of their background. I strive to create a classroom library where my students are surrounded by books that represent who they are and where they come from. My students deserve to have access to books that depict experiences they can relate to. My students are bright, strong, and resilient just like the characters in these books.

My student's lives matter, their voices matter, and I want to ensure this is supported in the books they are reading.

All of the books in this project include black characters and touch on the very real and relevant issues my black students face daily. These books will help foster a classroom environment where race is discussed openly and honestly. My black students deserve to have a classroom library full of books that represent who they are without having to search.

Ms. Pruden Merrick - Moore Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Durham, NC View local requests

Nearly all 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

18 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Just Like Me • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
I Am Every Good Thing • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
All Because You Matter • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Black Is a Rainbow Color • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Sulwe • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice • AKJ Education $15.29 1 $15.29
A Girl Like You • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Going Down Home with Daddy • Amazon Business $13.32 1 $13.32
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $13.28 1 $13.28
My Hair is a Garden • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $11.53 1 $11.53
The Undefeated (Caldecott Medal Book) • Amazon Business $10.74 1 $10.74
Hair Love • Amazon Business $9.96 1 $9.96
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
I Am Perfectly Designed • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Skin Like Mine (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $7.82 1 $7.82
Chocolate Me! • Amazon Business $7.41 1 $7.41

Materials cost

$264.04

Vendor shipping charges

 $17.97

Sales tax

 $20.60

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$336.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.39

Total project goal

$395.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $395.96

2 Donors

-$395.96

Donations toward project cost

-$336.57

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$59.39

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