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Ms. Walker from Baltimore, MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Multicultural Library to Promote Social Justice

Help me give my students a classroom library that will support social justice, equality, and inclusiveness.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Walker's classroom raised $382

This project is fully funded

My Students

No one could have predicted a few months ago that our lives would be so changed and that school as we knew it would be so disrupted. On March 13, 2020, my life as a teacher thoroughly changed. My students would not be returning for what I know now would be the remainder of the school year.

However, with the onset of social distancing and the shutdown order, my students were experiencing yet another heavy burden; social injustice.

During the pandemic our students are experiencing and embracing a time in history where people of color are going through the tragedies of racial discrimination and social injustice. My students are witnessing vast protests, injustices on social media, news media discussions and conversations in their households. Therefore, I want to expose them to literature that will address the many questions they may have on the topic.

My Project

The multicultural library will be filled with books that will spark my students' interests due to the many incidents of social injustice that have occurred in our country during the pandemic.

The books in this project will contribute to making a safe environment for my students who are curious and who still have questions about social injustice and racial discrimination.

I plan to use these book as read-alouds for continued distant learning to spark discussions and understanding. I want the conversations that I have with my students to be filled with rich discussions that will ease their thoughts on the topic. My students will deeply benefit from these resources through my distant learning read-alouds to close the achievement gap and to understand the world around them.

Ms. Walker Liberty Elementary School 64 Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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.

Baltimore, MD View local requests

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

HBCU Alum 50 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ruth and the Green Book • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
I Believe I Can • Amazon Business $17.09 1 $17.09
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
New Kid • Amazon Business $14.77 1 $14.77
Let Them Play (Tales of Young Americans) • Amazon Business $14.50 1 $14.50
In Our Mothers' House • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Genesis Begins Again • Amazon Business $13.76 1 $13.76
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore (Carolrhoda Picture Books) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Octopus Stew • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
Holes in the Sky • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
Mamie on the Mound: A Woman in Baseball's Negro Leagues • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
Sulwe • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $11.53 1 $11.53
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Front Desk • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
June Peters, You Will Change The World One Day • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Allie's Basketball Dream • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
The Moon Within • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Whispering Town • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Child of the Civil Rights Movement • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$268.89

Vendor shipping charges

$5.17

Sales tax

$16.13

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$324.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.22

Total project goal

$381.44

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$381.44

4 Donors

-$190.72

Donations toward project cost

-$162.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.61

match offer

-$190.72

Match offer toward project cost

-$162.11

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.61

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$0.00

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