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Ms. Blocker from Oxon Hill, MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Challenging Pictures Books

Help me give my students a view of diverse books so they may see themselves amidst the pages.

  • $562 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 Project

Protecting children is a teacher's number one job, however, there are books that we must allow our students the right to hear, view and read. These books represent a small list of themes that my students are interested in understanding better.

My students are curious about their own and their classmates' cultures, which are covered in these books.

They want to learn and understand how we are different and how our differences impact us in a positive way when we collaborate. Restricting books that my students can relate to has a ripple effect. Therefore, we would like to have these books in our classroom library as well as for use in instruction, to broaden my students cultural competency.

Ms. Blocker Flintstone 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.

More about Ms. Blocker

Oxon Hill, MD View local requests

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

56 students impacted 8donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Questioneers Chapter Book Collection (Books 1-4) • Amazon Business $28.47 1 $28.47
Mixed Me! • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Trombone Shorty • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Under My Hijab • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship (The Proudest Blue, 2) • Amazon Business $17.94 1 $17.94
Ambitious Girl (Ambitious Girl, 2) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
We Are Water Protectors • Amazon Business $15.35 1 $15.35
Pink Is for Boys • Amazon Business $15.20 1 $15.20
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Your Name Is a Song • Amazon Business $14.92 1 $14.92
Iggy Peck, Architect (The Questioneers) • Amazon Business $13.55 1 $13.55
Thank You, Omu! • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
My Shadow Is Purple • Amazon Business $12.48 1 $12.48
Dreamers • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Skin You Live In • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
As Fast As Words Could Fly • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners • Amazon Business $11.72 1 $11.72
Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race (First Conversations) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut • Amazon Business $10.64 1 $10.64
All Are Welcome • Amazon Business $10.27 1 $10.27
Hair Love • Amazon Business $10.04 1 $10.04
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
I Am Golden • Amazon Business $9.50 1 $9.50
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream • Amazon Business $9.30 1 $9.30
You Matter • Amazon Business $9.27 1 $9.27
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family • Amazon Business $9.00 1 $9.00
Hands Up! • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Those Shoes • Amazon Business $8.98 1 $8.98
Skin Like Mine (2) (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Wings • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Jabari Jumps • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 1: The Quest for Screen Time • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Full, Full, Full of Love • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$416.22

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $24.97

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$477.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$84.25

Total project goal

$561.68

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $561.68

7 Donors

-$472.90

Donations toward project cost

-$402.71

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.19

match offer

-$87.91

Match offer toward project cost

-$74.72

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.19

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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