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Mr. Steinacker from Kearns, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books for What Ails You: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills and Inclusiveness

Help me give my students books that help them to understand and process anxiety and stress, model healthy social-emotional learning and resilience, and feature a diversity of perspectives to further teach them inclusiveness and anti-racism.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Steinacker's classroom raised $234

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students have heart, even when they're hit hard. Many of them come from diverse backgrounds. Some have families that struggle to make ends meet, but they come to school regardless. Several are immigrants, or children of immigrants. Some will be the first person in their family to attend college. Many of them are also painfully unaware of their potential. I'm determined to empower them.

Between the pandemic, societal unrest, and recent challenges we have faced as a school community, this has been an incredibly difficult school year for many of my students.

I don't know if I would have been able to handle, at their age, what my students have been facing every day. I want to provide them with books that can be a welcome retreat from the stressors of the day, but can also provide them with ways to process and work through the difficulties they're experiencing. I want students to more clearly envision the great things yet awaiting in their futures. I also want them to more clearly understand and empathize with those who seem different from them, so that they are more prepared to work as productive and compassionate citizens in a just, equitable society.

My Project

Reading allows you to walk a mile in someone else's shoes without ever having to leave your seat. As my students read these novels featuring diverse protagonists, including Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and African-Americans, they will grow in empathy for those who at first glance appear different from themselves.

In fact, through these books, my students will understand both themselves AND others better.

Many of my students need to process through stress or even trauma, like the characters in these novels. As the students read about models of healthy and non-healthy relationships and responses to stressors, they will grow in their own social-emotional learning (SEL) skills. Many books (like Alfonso Jones) discuss both tolerance and responding to trauma/SEL simultaneously. The nonfiction texts provide specific and pointed how-to tips for mindfully responding to stress and anxiety.

These are hard times, to be sure. But in reading these books, my students will become more mindful of others, and mindful of their own well being.

Mr. Steinacker Kearns High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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

121 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
One Year Wiser: 365 Illustrated Meditations • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time (The Instant Help Solutions Series) • Amazon Business $17.27 1 $17.27
The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry, and Panic (The Instant Help Solutions Series) • Amazon Business $16.77 1 $16.77
When You Trap a Tiger: Winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
I Am Alfonso Jones • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Parked • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Pilu of the Woods • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rules of the Road • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Starfish • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
No Fixed Address • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Guts • Amazon Business $7.01 1 $7.01
Ghost (1) (Track) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Impossible Knife of Memory • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Walk Two Moons • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$165.79

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$198.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$34.99

Total project goal

$233.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $233.27

1 Donor

-$99.14

Donations toward project cost

-$99.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$116.64

Match offer toward project cost

-$99.14

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.50

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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