Help me give my students diverese books that brings valuable opportunity to bring our students' languages, cultures, histories, and voices into our classrooms.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Rouse's classroom raised $497
This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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
Diverse literature is a key tool to help to build a girl's social and emotional development by encouraging empathy, positive self-esteem, and building healthy relationships. Children who read diversely will more likely be accepting of those that are different from them.
Making a diverse selection of books available to students is a powerful way to celebrate everyone’s unique experiences, cultures, and identities.
When students are able to see a reflection of themselves in the pages of a book, they are being sent a message that their experience matters.
In addition, diversity in books can open students’ eyes to a wide array of characters whose lives may be very different from their own. Great literature has the power to transport us as readers—we can truly feel the characters’ emotions, delve into their thoughts, and experience their physical environments. This creates empathy, and helps students to become more conscious of the world around them and the many people who inhabit it.
More than half 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
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