Our school is a low-income, high-poverty elementary school of over eight hundred students. My students are faced with a wide range of challenges from fluctuating caretakers to homelessness, to learning and developmental disabilities, to not having adequate food or clothing. With these adversities, come along behaviors and needs that interfere with learning. Students, as young as four, walk into our building everyday carrying enormous weight on their shoulders that many of us have never had to worry about.
Their backgrounds are diverse, but they all demonstrate a love for learning.
They have dreams of growing up to become what they see in textbooks, children's books, television or movies. I hope to expand their dreams with the resources I provide in the classroom.
My Project
I teach math and science, and I lack diverse books for my students to read during their daily independent reading block. These books will help teach acceptance, tolerance and understanding in a world full of rich cultures and diverse people.
These books, with a focus on diversity and friendship, will expose my students to characters who look like them and our community, and mirror their experiences.
I am asking for books with girls and people of color as protagonists, and friends from different cultures and religions. They teach tolerance and acceptance of people who are different, and challenge to gender stereotypes. We have these conversations in my fifth grade class, so these books will help my students develop their social emotional skills and see themselves represented in the books we read. I am so excited to share these with my students!
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