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Mrs. Szczecinski from Evanston, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Culturally Relevant Books for Our Special Education Classroom

My students need a variety of books that are culturally relevant.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Szczecinski's classroom raised $194

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is a therapeutic day school program whose task is to provide emotional support and academic opportunities to children who have been unable to succeed in community school settings due to emotional, learning, and behavioral difficulties.

The majority of our students live at a residential children's home and are wards of the state.

Our school runs as a trauma-informed program, aiming to help our students grow from their pasts and learn how to cope in effective ways.

Despite the challenges that our students face, they are incredible children. Their resiliency, love for learning, and curiosity are truly inspiring. I strive to make my classroom a welcoming and safe community and to help my students explore learning and grow into independent and productive citizens.

My Project

I'll be honest, my students do not gravitate towards books! Reading is challenging for most of my students, and they do not currently find reading a relaxing way to pass the time. Nevertheless, I strive to find ways to make books a coveted item in our classroom.

My students are people of color, and we need more books that show characters that they can relate to.

I truly believe that if our library had more books with black and brown faces, they would be more excited and willing to choose books for their individual "book boxes".

I have shopped for books that all have characters that look like my students, and some with characters that are of ethnicities that my students may not be familiar with at all! I hope that these books help my students connect to reading and feel more at home within these books.

Mrs. Szczecinski Rice Education Center Grades PreK-2

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Evanston, IL View local requests

More than a third 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

6 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Beautiful Blackbird (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner) • Amazon Business $16.10 1 $16.10
I'm New Here • Amazon Business $12.85 1 $12.85
Same, Same But Different • Amazon Business $12.62 1 $12.62
Mixed Me! • Amazon Business $12.43 1 $12.43
Colour of Home • Amazon Business $11.06 1 $11.06
The Princess and the Pea • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
If I Ran For President • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
black is brown is tan • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Colors of Us • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
My Man Blue (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children • Amazon Business $5.97 1 $5.97
Do Like Kyla (Orchard Paperbacks) • Amazon Business $5.96 1 $5.96
Yo! Yes? (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
Happy! • Amazon Business $5.31 1 $5.31
Chocolate Me! • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
My Name Is Yoon • Amazon Business $3.03 1 $3.03

Materials cost

$132.55

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.99

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$164.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.04

Total project goal

$193.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $193.58

2 Donors

-$193.58

Donations toward project cost

-$164.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.04

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 $0.00

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