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Mrs. Francis from Concord NC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Internationally Minded ESL Students

My students need culturally diverse books, posters, and a rug that honor and embraces cultural perspectives. Each book, poster, and even the rug represents my students' culture.

  • $850 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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

My students are super awesome and unique. My English language learners are individuals whose development and personality is influenced by their cultural background and family values. Regardless of academic or socioeconomic struggles, they persevere to be the best they can be.

My English language learners are individuals who embrace who they are and love sharing their identity with peers.

They find joy in sharing and teaching about who they are because each student is unique in their own history and life experience.

My Project

Each and every book selected for this project represents cultures from around the world. My English language learners will use these books to learn about diverse cultures. The books, the rug, and the posters will serve as an encouragement for my ESL students that being ESL is not a deficit but an asset. These materials will support my English language learners become internationally minded and they will learn to embrace their own identity.

My students need books that mirror who they are as immigrant students.

My students need these books as windows to new perspectives and cultures around the world. The posters will be a constant reminder that being an immigrant and or English language learners is a privilege and not a deficit to hold them back from their dreams.

The rug will be a classroom tool they will rest on and at the same time be exposed to the world around us. My English language learners are hard working students who deserve the opportunities to fair and equity resources that encourage their heritage and promote their family values.

Mrs. Francis
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
World Explorer Carpet 8'4" x 11'8" • Kaplan Early Learning Company $382.46 1 $382.46
I'm New Here • Amazon Business $12.86 3 $38.58
Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) (Coretta Scott King Honor - Illustrator Honor Title) • Amazon Business $18.09 1 $18.09
Four Feet, Two Sandals • Amazon Business $17.00 1 $17.00
I Am Rene, the Boy • Amazon Business $16.93 1 $16.93
A Trip Around the World, Grades K - 5: Bringing Cultural Awareness to Your Classroom with Activities Across the Curriculum • Amazon Business $14.96 1 $14.96
A New Trip Around the World, Grades K - 5: Activities Across the Curriculum for Cuba, the United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Chile, Iraq, Puerto Rico, Ghana, Morocco, Norway, Guatemala, Spain, and Peru • Amazon Business $14.35 1 $14.35
Rene Has Two Last Names / Rene tiene dos apellidos • Amazon Business $13.22 1 $13.22
Refugee • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Little Roja Riding Hood (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) • Amazon Business $12.18 1 $12.18
From North to South / Del Norte al Sur • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Same, Same But Different • Amazon Business $9.28 1 $9.28
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $9.21 1 $9.21
A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World • Amazon Business $9.05 1 $9.05
I Love Saturdays y domingos • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
My Name Is Jorge: On Both Sides of the River • Amazon Business $7.94 1 $7.94
The Name Jar • Amazon Business $7.74 1 $7.74
Shades of People • Amazon Business $7.50 1 $7.50
What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World • Amazon Business $6.50 1 $6.50
The Colors of Us • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
My Name Is Maria Isabel • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
My Name Is Yoon • Amazon Business $3.03 1 $3.03
Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $2.25 1 $2.25

Materials cost

$633.08

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$49.38

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$721.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$127.40

Total project goal

$849.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$849.36

7 Donors

-$422.92

Donations toward project cost

-$362.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$60.44

match offer

-$422.92

Match offer toward project cost

-$359.48

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.44

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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$0.00

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