Help Us Build Our Global Awareness Through Literacy!
Help me give my students a classroom library full of books about inclusion and diversity to help us build our global awareness.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Bagley's classroom raised $762
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 Students
I walk into my classroom every morning with a smile, because I know that soon my students will be walking through the door. We greet each other with smiles because we are excited to be at school. That's what first grade is about, being excited to learn. Our classroom is a diverse place. We have different cultures, languages, a wide range of academic and economic groups, but we all learn to celebrate our differences and it is beautiful.
One of our classroom sayings is "we can do hard things"!
We say this every morning to remind ourselves that even when life and school are difficult we can still grow and believe in ourselves. I am amazed everyday at what my students accomplish in just one year. Many students come to first grade not knowing their whole alphabet and they leave readers!
My Project
Having a classroom library that includes books with diversity and inclusion is so important. In first grade, we are working hard in our classroom to understand the world around us and one of our favorite ways to learn is through books. Not only will these amazing books give us an opportunity to explore different cultures they will also bring representation to students in our class. There is no better gift I could give to my students than to see themselves and those they love represented in characters in the books that surround them on a daily basis.
Our classroom needs to be a safe place where everyone feels welcome and included.
One of the best ways I can do that for my students is to have books that include their cultures and languages in them. School is so much more than just reading and math. School is one of the first experiences these young people have in working together with people other than their immediate families. I want to help build their global awareness so that when they leave our classroom, they are people who recognize and celebrate each other's differences and love and care about others and the world around them.
I have chosen books that incorporate different cultures, countries, languages, and characters with different abilities. I will put these books in our classroom library and my students will have full access to these books at all times. I have no doubt my students will love and cherish these books and they will help us become more aware of the world around us.
More than three‑quarters 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
The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico
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$18.95
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$18.95
Sparkle Boy
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$17.49
1
$17.49
Be Bold! Be Brave! 11 Latinas who made U.S. History (English and Spanish Edition)
• Amazon Business
$16.81
1
$16.81
You, Me and Empathy: Teaching children about empathy, feelings, kindness, compassion, tolerance and recognising bullying behaviours
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$15.95
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$15.95
The Ghanaian Goldilocks
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$15.95
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$15.95
Watch Me: A Story of Immigration and Inspiration
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$15.69
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$15.69
A New Kind of Wild
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$15.59
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$15.59
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
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$15.29
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$15.29
Freedom Soup
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$14.99
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$14.99
Same, Same But Different
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$14.99
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$14.99
Thank You, Omu!
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$14.89
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$14.89
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
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$14.84
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$14.84
Across the Bay
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$14.84
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$14.84
My Name Is Yoon (Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, 2004)
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$14.69
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$14.69
We Are Water Protectors
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$14.48
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$14.48
Awesomely Emma: A Charley and Emma Story (Charley and Emma Stories, 2)
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$14.47
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$14.47
Pink Is for Boys
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$14.47
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$14.47
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
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$14.47
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$14.47
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
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$14.36
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$14.36
Jabari Tries
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$14.29
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$14.29
Your Name Is a Song
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$14.16
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$14.16
Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You
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$14.00
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$14.00
Alma and How She Got Her Name
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$13.99
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$13.99
Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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$13.89
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$13.89
The Most Beautiful Thing
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$13.59
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$13.59
Saturday
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$13.59
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$13.59
The Day You Begin
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$13.49
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$13.49
Hiya Moriah
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$12.99
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$12.99
My Friend Suhana: A Story of Friendship and Cerebral Palsy (Growing with Love)
• Amazon Business
$12.99
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$12.99
You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion
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$12.58
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$12.58
You Matter
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$12.29
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$12.29
Stella Brings the Family
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$12.10
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$12.10
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
• Amazon Business
$11.99
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$11.99
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
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$11.59
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$11.59
Drawn Together
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$11.49
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$11.49
Chocolate Milk, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy
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$10.95
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$10.95
King for a Day
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$10.95
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$10.95
Our Class is a Family
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$10.92
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$10.92
Different Like Me (Our Daily Bread for Kids Presents)
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$9.99
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$9.99
Cora Cooks Pancit
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$9.86
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$9.86
Sulwe
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$9.74
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$9.74
Before She Was Harriet
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$8.99
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$8.99
Pan de Sal Saves the Day: An Award-winning Children's Story from the Philippines [New Bilingual English and Tagalog Edition]
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$8.95
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$8.95
The Name Jar
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$7.99
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$7.99
Everybody Cooks Rice (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
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$6.99
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$6.99
Happy in Our Skin
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$6.19
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$6.19
Meeting Mimi: A Story About Different Abilities Children's Book―PreK-Grade 2 Interactive Book About Diversity With Illustrations, Vocabulary, Reading ... (24 pgs) (Playing and Learning Together)
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$3.99
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$3.99
Materials cost
$607.74
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$9.12
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$646.86
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$114.15
Total project goal
$761.01
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$761.01
5 Donors
-$377.86
Donations toward project cost
-$325.68
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$52.18
match offer
-$377.86
Match offer toward project cost
-$321.18
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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