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Mr. Steger from Milwaukee, WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Library: Representing The World We Live In!

Help me give my students diverse easy readers and picture books to make reading engaging and relevant.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Steger's classroom raised $398

This project is fully funded

My Students

First and second graders are energetic, enthusiastic, and super social. They are so enjoyable to be around. They love being involved in the learning process and want to succeed. Our goal as a classroom is that we enter the classroom each day ready to try new things and be brave to make mistakes. Mistakes lead to learning. As a teacher in an impoverished urban area, we struggle to have access to resources needed to provide a quality twenty-first century education. My goal is to provide an equitable education for each student in our classroom.

I teach eager and enthusiastic students who need these resources to reach their full potential.

My Project

Teaching children how to read is by far the most rewarding part of my job! When teaching a child to read, we provide books that are leveled to their ability. Leveled readers are used in classroom, and also taken home to practice their reading skills. They are used all the time. Most leveled readers lack diversity with many of them not having very diverse characters and topics that our students see and experience in their everyday lives. The books in this project have multicultural characters.

These books will reflect the world they know!

Connecting to books is key as it provides a want to learn to read. Lastly, we selected some awesome diverse picture books to use to teach about certain historical topics, but also build to empathy and appreciation for others.

Mr. Steger Lowell P Goodrich Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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

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.

Milwaukee, WI 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Queen of Tejano Music: Selena • Amazon Business $17.30 1 $17.30
The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed History • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Milo Imagines the World • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
Follow That Map! (Confetti Kids #7) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Rosa's Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Pablo's Pet (Confetti Kids. Dive into Reading!, Emergent) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Lily's New Home (Confetti Kids) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Protest (Confetti Kids Series, Dive into Reading!, Emergent Level) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Child of the Civil Rights Movement • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
Luke on the Loose: TOON Level 2 • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Tomás Rivera (Rise and Shine) (Green Light Readers Level 2) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Garden Day! (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Ling & Ting: Twice as Silly (Passport to Reading, Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Ling & Ting Share a Birthday (Passport to Reading: Level 3 (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Bradford Street Buddies: Block Party Surprise (Green Light Readers Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Bradford Street Buddies: Backyard Camp-Out (Green Light Readers Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Beach Day! (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Snow Day! (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Bradford Street Buddies: Springtime Blossoms (Green Light Readers Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Lana's World: Let's Go to the Moon (Green Light Readers Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Lana's World: Let's Go Fishing! (Green Light Readers Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Jump Shot (Game Day) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Kick It, Mo! (Mo Jackson) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! (Passport to Reading Level 3) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Get a Hit, Mo! (Mo Jackson) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Panda Kisses (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
Pass the Ball, Mo! (Mo Jackson) • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
The Pizza That We Made (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Pumpkin Day! (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Don't Throw It to Mo! (Mo Jackson) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Katie Fry, Private Eye #1: Lost Kitten (Scholastic Reader, Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Luke on the Loose (Toon) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Hamster Chase (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Apple Picking Day! (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
The Giant Jellybean Jar (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Baseball Buzz (Sports Illustrated Kids Starting Line Readers) • Amazon Business $3.95 1 $3.95
My Robot (Green Light Readers Level 2) • Amazon Business $3.95 1 $3.95

Materials cost

$295.70

Vendor shipping charges

 $7.98

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$338.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.67

Total project goal

$397.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $397.79

3 Donors

-$198.89

Donations toward project cost

-$169.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.83

match offer

-$198.89

Match offer toward project cost

-$169.06

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.83

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