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Mrs. Sierra from Tacoma, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Sierra's classroom raised $1,199

Help Perpetuate Social Justice Learning & Action for Student Leaders

Help me give my students copies of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson for social justice learning and to take action toward serving in their school and neighborhood community.

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Mrs. Sierra Lincoln High School
Tacoma, WA Grades 9-12

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate 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 Students

When you are one of our students, you are part of the family. Our school has a tradition of pride and excellence as well as a tight-knit community. Our students love to participate in learning opportunities of all kinds--especially reading experiences that deepen their knowledge and connect them with others, their community, and with history. Our students are in two categories: voracious readers or future voracious readers. Our community efforts are often literacy-centered, service-centered, or designed to enrich STEM curiosities and course work such as exploration, clubs or reading in a group so they can enjoy and learn together. The specific group of students who will benefit from this project are on the student leadership classes and will use what they learn to lead in their school and community.

My Project

Together with our high school's ASB advising teacher, I will lead a distance learning group reading experience with our students. The books selected in this reading experience address important historical aspects that affect our nation's reality today. Truly understanding the problems of today requires a knowledge of how these problems were created in the first place. The real people, facts and descriptions of the experiences of people of color in our country in the arena of the US justice system and the economic and social policies that are contained in these books by these Black scholars, has the potential to change the perspective of the reader.

The students participating in this opportunity have signed up to serve as student leaders because they want to make a difference in their school and their city.

As part of this project we hope to incorporate a robust student-led social justice aspect where the students will demonstrate their concerns for their community, study the ways in which they can learn more about the problem, brainstorm possibilities to take action and organize themselves and others to address the needs they see.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

150 students impacted 6 donors
Mrs. Sierra Lincoln High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Tacoma, WA View local requests

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

150 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent • MahoganyBooks $28.80 20 $576.00
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent • MahoganyBooks $28.80 5 $144.00
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice • MahoganyBooks $9.89 10 $98.90
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice • MahoganyBooks $9.89 3 $29.67
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent • MahoganyBooks $28.80 1 $28.80
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice • MahoganyBooks $9.89 2 $19.78

Materials cost

$897.15

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $78.50

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,019.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$179.84

Total project goal

$1,198.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,198.95

5 Donors

-$599.48

Donations toward project cost

-$509.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.92

match offer

-$599.47

Match offer toward project cost

-$509.55

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.92

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