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Ms. Scheele from Burien, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books for Empowerment, Tolerance, and Kindness

My students need books to help build a tolerant classroom community.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Scheele's classroom raised $708

This project is fully funded

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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

My classroom is located in Washington state at a Title I school. Students at my school are hardworking, kind, eager individuals. Many students are first and second generation citizens from Africa, South America, and Asia. Our differing cultures, backgrounds, economic statuses, and languages provide richness in the classroom, but we also face challenges. One challenge is that we are incredibly underfunded. At HV, 80-85% of students qualify for free and reduced school lunch. There are so many experiences and learning I wish I could have with our students if only I had the means.

My Project

Because students spend so much time in school, schools have a critically important opportunity and responsibility to ensure that all students get the support and help they need to become empathetic and tolerant. I want my classroom to be a place that brings out the best in my students.

By donating you would be stocking my bookshelves with books about tolerance, empathy, diversity, strong role models, and embracing and celebrating differences.These books and read-alouds will help my students to become even more caring, kind, and generous human beings.

With how turbulent American society has become students need this character education more now than ever. They deserve to be reminded that good people support them, will help them get supplies, and they need to be taught how to support one another. These books will help mold the minds of my young impressionable students for the better. Please donate and help my students become the amazing people they can and will be. Thank you!

Ms. Scheele Hazel Valley Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • Amazon Business $15.84 1 $15.84
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • Amazon Business $14.33 1 $14.33
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $14.16 1 $14.16
Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer • Amazon Business $14.13 1 $14.13
Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong • Amazon Business $13.83 1 $13.83
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle • Amazon Business $13.56 1 $13.56
Say Hello! • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
Peace, Bugs, and Understanding: An Adventure in Sibling Harmony • Amazon Business $12.71 1 $12.71
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps • Amazon Business $12.52 1 $12.52
Marvelous Mattie • Amazon Business $12.35 1 $12.35
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $12.30 1 $12.30
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
Different Like Coco • Amazon Business $12.21 1 $12.21
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story • Amazon Business $12.18 1 $12.18
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell (Christy Ottaviano Books) • Amazon Business $12.06 1 $12.06
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children • Amazon Business $12.01 1 $12.01
Puppy Mind • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
What Does It Mean to Be Present? • Amazon Business $11.65 1 $11.65
Marianthe's Story: Painted Words and Spoken Memories • Amazon Business $11.42 1 $11.42
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn't Sit Still • Amazon Business $11.24 1 $11.24
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Master of Mindfulness: How to Be Your Own Superhero in Times of Stress • Amazon Business $10.62 1 $10.62
One • Amazon Business $10.57 1 $10.57
I am Amelia Earhart (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $10.50 1 $10.50
Anh's Anger • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale (Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award (Awards)) • Amazon Business $10.07 1 $10.07
Waiting for the Biblioburro • Amazon Business $10.07 1 $10.07
The Recess Queen • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Moon Patrol • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Dare the Wind: The Record-breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud • Amazon Business $9.94 1 $9.94
Steps and Stones: An Anh's Anger Story • Amazon Business $9.68 1 $9.68
Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo (Pura Belpre Honor Books - Illustration Honor) • Amazon Business $9.20 1 $9.20
Woolbur • Amazon Business $9.09 1 $9.09
In English, of Course • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Fur Is Only Fur Deep • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Courage • Amazon Business $8.69 1 $8.69
It's Okay To Be Different • Amazon Business $8.00 1 $8.00
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
King of the Playground • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Name Jar • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.21 1 $7.21
Pele, King of Soccer/Pele, El Rey del Futbol • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Juice Box Bully: Empowering Kids to Stand Up for Others • Amazon Business $6.81 1 $6.81
Simone Biles (Sports All-Stars) • Amazon Business $6.70 1 $6.70
The Peace Book • Amazon Business $6.37 1 $6.37
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World • Amazon Business $6.27 1 $6.27
Say Hello • Amazon Business $6.16 1 $6.16
Finklehopper Frog • Amazon Business $4.62 1 $4.62
Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman • Amazon Business $4.51 1 $4.51

Materials cost

$518.52

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $45.37

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.78

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$601.67

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$106.18

Total project goal

$707.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $707.85

6 Donors

-$353.92

Donations toward project cost

-$300.83

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.09

match offer

-$353.93

Match offer toward project cost

-$300.84

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.09

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