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Ms. Finn from New York NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books as Mirrors & Windows #ISeeMe

Help me give my students picture books that act as mirrors and windows -- books that reflect their identities and experiences, as well as books that reflect different identities and experiences outside of themselves.

  • $824 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! 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

Our students are empathetic, driven, and critical to analyze the world around them. Developmentally, students are ready to start asking tough questions that even adults struggle with; seeking out answers be it through teachers, classroom materials, or their own research.

The best part about 4th and 5th grade is that students are proud to share their strong opinions, and quick to stand up for a friend or community in need.

Whether it's detecting bias in a text, or standing in solidarity with a national protest, students are actively engaged in their surroundings.

My Project

Reading is an essential part of our day. Whether students are reading independently, in partners or book clubs, or listening to a whole class read aloud, we spend a substantial part of our time together with books. However, in a self-contained Special Education classroom, students often come to school with negative attitudes towards reading, something that feels almost insurmountable to them. This becomes a huge obstacle as students become older, yet, due to gaps in their foundational reading skills, are both unengaged in reading as well as unable to enjoy high interest or grade level texts. Kids need access to books that are not only accessible and engaging, but books with which they can connect.

Books that reflect the identities and experiences of children work to empower students and provide increased confidence and a positive self-image.

By donating to our project, you will not only help to provide books that children are able to deeply connect to, but also positive literacy experiences that will foster positive reading habits, and therefore improved literacy skills.

Ms. Finn
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Niño Wrestles the World • AKJ Education $17.09 1 $17.09
The Water Princess • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
She Stood for Freedom • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
Chocolate Me! • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
The Librarian of Auschwitz • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Sitting Bull Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
Happy in Our Skin • AKJ Education $14.39 1 $14.39
Brothers In Hope The Story Of The Lost Boys Of Sudan • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Seeds of Change Planting A Path To Peace • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Camping Trip that Changed America Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Yo Soy Muslim • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Lillian's Right to Vote A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Malcolm Little The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Biblioburro A True Story from Colombia • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Each Kindness • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
What Can a Citizen Do? • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Deep in the Sahara • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote A Migrant's Tale • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Diego Rivera His World and Ours • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
She Sang Promise The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Marvelous Cornelius Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales • AKJ Education $9.49 1 $9.49
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
The Poet Slave of Cuba • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
American Born Chinese • AKJ Education $7.69 1 $7.69
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines Going Behind the Environmental Headlines • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Let It Shine Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
Our Children Can Soar A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
This Is the Rope • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Dreamer • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Uptown • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The First Rule of Punk • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Crossing Bok Chitto A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
They Dance in the Sky Native American Star Myths • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
The Green Frogs A Korean Folktale • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Crossing the Wire • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Ninth Ward • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Only Passing Through The Story of Sojourner Truth • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Run, Boy, Run • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Boy Called Slow The True Story of Sitting Bull • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Mesmerized • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Round is a Mooncake A Book of Shapes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Hurricanes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Freedom Summer • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Serafina's Promise • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Caribbean Dream • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Beatrice's Goat • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Pecan Pie Baby • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Surprising Sharks Read and Wonder • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Imani's Moon • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Sylvia & Aki • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Seeds of Freedom • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Living Up the Street • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Boys Without Names • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Who Was Frida Kahlo? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
Baseball Ballerina • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Picture Perfect • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
Native American Heroes Osceola, Tecumseh & Cochise • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
My Family Adventure • AKJ Education $3.61 1 $3.61

Materials cost

$660.16

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$700.06

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$123.54

Total project goal

$823.60

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $823.60

1 Donor

-$550.00

Donations toward project cost

-$467.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$82.50

match offer

-$273.60

Match offer toward project cost

-$232.56

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.04

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