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Ms. Schultz from Pembroke Pines, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Culturally Responsive Literature

Help me give my students books that represent their cultures and customs! Help create a culturally responsive classroom!

  • $417 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

Hello, Hola, and Bonjour! Welcome to the school where several different cultures, languages, and customs are present. Each and every year, I learn something new about my students and their way of life. This year, I am taking on a new position as a media specialist with a focus on multicultural education and will be the teacher of all 624 students!

Have you ever felt like you wanted to see more children's books that had characters that looked or dressed like you did?

I know that many of the students I teach would love to see their culture or customs represented in a book. With the funding from this project, I would be able to purchase several different books to focus on hispanic heritage, native american heritage, holidays around the world, lunar new year, black history, women's history, disability awareness, arab american heritage, asian american heritage and pacific islander heritage, ramadan, and carribean heritage.

My Project

These materials will be used to generate an entire curriculum for grades K-5. Each grade level will have their own stories, as to not repeat the same exact story year after year. I will be able to teach each student in our elementary school about the special cultures we have in our school to cultivate culturally responsive students.

By using these texts, I hope to open up a world of possibilities and show students to places and people they may have never heard of.

I want them to explore and question the world around them and take that information and use it for good!

Ms. Schultz
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Martí's Song for Freedom / Martí y sus versos por la libertad (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
The Remembering Day / El dia de los muertos (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
Jingle Dancer • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo: Bilingual Spanish-English (Pura Belpre Honor Books - Illustration Honor) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Alma and How She Got Her Name • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.80 1 $15.80
Maria Had a Little Llama / María Tenía Una Llamita (Pura Belpre Honor Books - Illustration Honor) (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
My Name is Celia/Me llamo Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz/la vida de Celia Cruz (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Winner) (English, Multilingual and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $14.94 1 $14.94
My Papi Has a Motorcycle • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story • Amazon Business $13.64 1 $13.64
Thunder Boy Jr. (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards)) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
When the Shadbush Blooms • Amazon Business $10.76 1 $10.76
Abuela's Weave • Amazon Business $10.55 1 $10.55
Dreamers • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
How the Camel Got Its Hump (My First Classic Story) • Amazon Business $8.22 1 $8.22
Looking for Bongo • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Pele, King of Soccer/Pele, El Rey del Futbol: Bilingual Spanish-English • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Kwanzaa (Holidays Around the World) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Kwanzaa (Rookie Read-About Holidays) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Ellen Ochoa (Rookie Biographies: Previous Editions) • Amazon Business $4.95 1 $4.95

Materials cost

$315.02

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$353.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$62.42

Total project goal

$416.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $416.16

4 Donors

-$314.40

Donations toward project cost

-$268.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.66

match offer

-$100.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$85.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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 $0.00

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