Help me give my students culturally relevant texts to supplement our class library.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Eckenrode's classroom raised $662
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
Our senior students are back in the building after 18 months of virtual school! In order to properly address the needs of students social and academic lives, they deserve investment in literature so they may continue to cultivate empathy and understand their individual and collective identity.
Our students have specifically asked for supports with mental and emotional health, trauma-informed approaches to literature and learning, as well as materials that will prepare them to envision their futures.
My Project
After witnessing a racialized pandemic disrupt their high school experience, our students have asked for texts that they can connect with, to both expand the canon of literature that exists in our school library and the collective consciousness within English departments across the country.
From poetry to prose, non-fiction to fiction, the selected books in this project will support our students in physically reading together, after over a year of digital-only education in isolation.
Your donations will support our seniors to better understand themselves and their place in the world as they prepare to graduate this summer!
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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