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Ms. Taylor from Collinsville, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Black Voices, New Choices: BHM Celebration of Diverse YA Authors

Help me give my students the gift of new black literary experiences this year.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Taylor's classroom raised $403

This project is fully funded

My Students

For the first time in my teaching career, I have been blessed to have a classroom that mirrors America. We are diverse in every way imaginable and have built strong collaborative relationships in our class through lots of loving trial and error.

Now I want to continue to create and foster a culture of kindness and respect by adding much more diversity in the books we offer in our classroom library.

I am interested in making the world a kinder, more respectful place, and for me that means planting seeds of kindness and respect into the students that I teach now by exposing them to different walks of life, like characters who are informal immigrants or characters who are differently-abled or deal with the complications of a differently-abled family member. I want students to see the humanity in characters who are considered poor and uneducated as well as to see the humanness of those who have fame and wealth.

Help me create a space for cultural competency and comprehension all in one. Donate books that change our perceptions of the world.

My Project

Despite the pandemic, this year has been all about exposing my students to literature beyond the common cannon of middle school young adult literature. We've read Latino literature, regional literature (Appalachian folklore), and literature revolving around the differently abled (I hate that term but it's better than disabled). I LOVE reading--but I absolutely remember wondering why all of the authors my teachers suggested where never people of color--OR the fact that the stories told about people of color seemed to be quite stereotypical.

As a BLACK EDUCATOR, it is my pleasure and responsibility to create a space where students can read about other kids who look like them -- or don't -- to help dispel the myths and stereos that plague our country still today.

PET is a novel that does just that--fantasy, friendship, and the unfurling of identity all come together to give voice to a new kind of Black Literature.

Ms. Taylor Dorris Intermediate School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pet • AKJ Education $13.13 23 $301.99

Materials cost

$301.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$342.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.44

Total project goal

$402.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $402.96

9 Donors

-$398.55

Donations toward project cost

-$342.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.03

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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