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Mr. Gravelle Izaguirre (Mr. GI) from El Cerrito, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Literacy for Leadership in a Multicultural USA and World!

Help me give my students the gift of literacy by providing culturally relevant reading to engage, inspire, and develop the young minds that will improve our world!

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Gravelle Izaguirre (Mr. GI)'s classroom raised $451

This project is fully funded

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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 a truly diverse population in a truly integrated school where just over half are low-income and just under half are middle-income. Students who are Native American, African American, Latino, Asian American, and European American make up our population, as well as students who were born abroad or with parents who are immigrants from such diverse homelands as Japan, China, Laos, Nepal, India, Yemen, Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

Despite the differences between students and cultures, they come together under the values of courage, compassion, curiosity, integrity, respect, and responsibility to push for the self-success and community success with the motto "Leave no dragon behind!"

My Project

Every year I update the school library that I created with my students three years ago. The library that we built contains literature that has done two key things: engage students and build literacy.

Most mainstream texts do not engage my students who are 90% students of color, about half from immigrant parents or grandparent, and many who are LGBTQ.

Through careful conversation with students, we pick books and graphic novels that will engage them and their peers. Then, I start a DonorsChoose.org project to fundraise the materials that will best engage and build literacy among my stellar students.

Mr. Gravelle Izaguirre (Mr. GI) K2 Summit Public School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

El Cerrito, CA View local requests 500 students impacted 11donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
War of the Realms • Amazon Business $20.22 1 $20.22
Storm of Locusts (2) (The Sixth World) • Amazon Business $18.29 1 $18.29
The Mythic Dream • Amazon Business $17.12 1 $17.12
Binti: The Complete Trilogy • Amazon Business $17.10 1 $17.10
Ms. Marvel Vol. 8: Mecca • Amazon Business $17.07 1 $17.07
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism • Amazon Business $14.20 1 $14.20
Ms. Marvel Vol. 10: Time and Again (Ms. Marvel (2014)) • Amazon Business $14.01 1 $14.01
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
The Poet X • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
An Unkindness of Ghosts • Amazon Business $12.62 1 $12.62
Internment • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland • Amazon Business $12.23 1 $12.23
Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (A Sal and Gabi Novel, Book 1) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Fire Keeper (A Storm Runner Novel, Book 2) • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2) • Amazon Business $11.70 1 $11.70
With the Fire on High • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Thor Vol. 2 • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) • Amazon Business $11.02 1 $11.02
The Storm Runner (A Storm Runner Novel, Book 1) • Amazon Business $10.52 1 $10.52
Aru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel, Book 1) (Pandava Series) • Amazon Business $10.33 1 $10.33
Dragon Pearl (Rick Riordan Presents) • Amazon Business $10.19 1 $10.19
Aru Shah and the Song of Death • Amazon Business $9.73 1 $9.73
9 from the Nine Worlds (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1) • Amazon Business $6.47 1 $6.47

Materials cost

$319.23

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $29.21

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$383.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.63

Total project goal

$450.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $450.86

10 Donors

-$427.22

Donations toward project cost

-$383.23

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.99

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$23.64

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