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Mrs. Iwersen from Portland OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Culturally Responsive Classroom Books

My students need culturally responsive books that reflect the diversity within our class!

  • $584 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are hard working and very energetic. They are creative and love to read! Our school is Title I with 100% of our students receiving free breakfast, lunch, and snack. We are lucky to be in a culturally rich classroom where we can learn about diversity and appreciate each other's differences.

"It's okay to be different" has been a positive motto for our class this year!

In order for each of my students to have a successful year, we spend a lot of time building a strong classroom community. Building positive relationships is something we focus on all year long.

My Project

I have spent a lot of time and money going to garage sales and second hand stores collecting books for my class. However it is difficult to find books on a budget that represent the students I teach.

My class is comprised of students from nine different countries.

We spend all year focusing on our class community and honoring our differences. This is challenging to do when our read aloud books and mentor texts lack diversity. My students aren't able to see themselves in many of the books we currently have.

This project will greatly enhance our class library by providing books to engage my students. These books will not only be "mirrors" that reflect the students in my class, but they will be "windows" which will give students views of new and different lives unlike their own.

Mrs. Iwersen
Grades PreK-2

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
She Stood for Freedom • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
Chocolate Me! • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
Niño Wrestles the World • AKJ Education $15.29 1 $15.29
My Name Is Bilal • AKJ Education $15.26 1 $15.26
Hip Hop Speaks to Children A Celebration of Poetry With a Beat • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Happy in Our Skin • AKJ Education $14.39 1 $14.39
Giant Steps to Change the World • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Brothers In Hope The Story Of The Lost Boys Of Sudan • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Biblioburro A True Story from Colombia • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
She Persisted • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
A Taste of Colored Water • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Yo Soy Muslim • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Other Side • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The last stop on market street • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Marisol McDonald no combina / Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Princess and the Warrior • AKJ Education $12.37 1 $12.37
I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban • AKJ Education $11.68 1 $11.68
A Bike Like Sergio's • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
Kids of Kabul Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War • AKJ Education $11.64 1 $11.64
10,000 Dresses • AKJ Education $10.91 1 $10.91
American Born Chinese • AKJ Education $8.02 1 $8.02
Dalia's Wondrous Hair / El cabello maravilloso de Dalia • AKJ Education $7.18 1 $7.18
Our Children Can Soar A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Uptown • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Dreamer • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
The Fiesta Dress: A Quinceanera Tale • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
What Can You Do with a Paleta / ¿Qué Puedes Hacer con una Paleta? • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Round Is a Tortilla A Book of Shapes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
I Love Saturdays y domingos • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
New Shoes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Only Passing Through The Story of Sojourner Truth • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
I Will Come Back for You • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Freedom Summer • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Ruby's Wish • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Becoming Naomi Leon • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Si, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike In L.a. • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Imani's Moon • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Those Shoes • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Two Homes • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Picture Perfect • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
Full, Full, Full of Love • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59

Materials cost

$458.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$495.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.49

Total project goal

$583.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $583.29

7 Donors

-$482.19

Donations toward project cost

-$409.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.32

match offer

-$101.10

Match offer toward project cost

-$85.94

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.16

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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