My scholars attend a Distinct Special Education Program that serves students with moderate to severe learning disabilities. My scholars attend an urban, Title I school in the most diverse zipcode in the United States. This is my 9th year teaching in South Seattle but my 1st full year teaching in person at GHE and I feel so fortunate already.
This school is filled with brilliant scholars, families, educators and community members who work extremely hard to serve scholars furthest from educational justice.
My Project
This project is the start of an identity lending library for all educators in our school who serve scholars from Kindergarten to 5th Grade.
These materials are carefully selected books for educators to use to conversations around identity characteristics (race, melanin, ancestors, ethnicity, class, gender, age, ability, spirituality, etc.).
Our goal for this lending library is align our identity work through interactive read alouds and related activities throughout the grades. This alignment will strengthen the understanding of identity characteristics, intersectionality and how specific identities affect how some people have power and privilege and how others are oppressed.
One way we could use this lending library is to align the way we introduce and define each identity characteristic in kid-friendly language. For example, we could use the book, "Who Are You?" or "It Feels Good to Be Yourself" to introduce and deepen our understanding of gender, sex, and gender expression. We could define gender as "Your brain, your heart, and your body working together to choose the way you want to be a boy, a girl, both, neither, or something else."
The multiple copies of books in our lending library will allow for educators to use the same book at the same time. For example, if all Kindergarten educators read Isatou Ceesay's book at the same time, scholars across classes could have more opportunities to discuss her story, learn about Gambia, and the ancestors of their peers, etc. These conversations could be among peers or fellow Kindergarten educators in various school settings.
We are very excited to build our identity lending library and collaborate together. Thank you for reading about our project and we hope you consider supporting us!
Who Are You?: The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity
• Amazon Business
$16.94
3
$50.82
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present
• Amazon Business
$16.46
3
$49.38
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
• Amazon Business
$16.19
3
$48.57
Michael Jordan (Little People, BIG DREAMS)
• Amazon Business
$15.99
3
$47.97
The Power Book: What is it, Who Has it, and Why?
• Amazon Business
$15.83
3
$47.49
Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race (First Conversations)
• Amazon Business
$11.19
4
$44.76
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Little People, BIG DREAMS)
• Amazon Business
$14.39
3
$43.17
Too Many Mangos
• Amazon Business
$13.95
3
$41.85
All the Colors We Are/Todos los colores de nuestra piel: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color/La historia de por qué tenemos diferentes colores de piel
• Amazon Business
$13.67
3
$41.01
Jaguars and Butterflies
• Amazon Business
$13.58
3
$40.74
What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns
• Amazon Business
$13.10
3
$39.30
Pele and Poliahu
• Amazon Business
$12.95
3
$38.85
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
• Amazon Business
$17.74
2
$35.48
Change Sings
• MahoganyBooks
$17.09
2
$34.18
Come With Me
• Amazon Business
$10.99
3
$32.97
Julia's House for Lost Creatures
• Amazon Business
$16.29
2
$32.58
Jacob's Room to Choose
• Amazon Business
$16.28
2
$32.56
Sulwe
• MahoganyBooks
$16.19
2
$32.38
I Am Every Good Thing
• MahoganyBooks
$16.19
2
$32.38
A Family Is a Family Is a Family
• Amazon Business
$16.19
2
$32.38
M Is for Melanin A Celebration of the Black Child
• MahoganyBooks
$16.19
2
$32.38
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition
• MahoganyBooks
$16.19
2
$32.38
A Moon for Moe and Mo
• Amazon Business
$16.15
2
$32.30
Drawn Together
• Amazon Business
$15.99
2
$31.98
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
• Amazon Business
$15.89
2
$31.78
Pele (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 46)
• Amazon Business
$10.40
3
$31.20
When I Get Older: The Story behind "Wavin' Flag"
• Amazon Business
$15.49
2
$30.98
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
• Amazon Business
$15.05
2
$30.10
I Am Mixed (I Am Book)
• Amazon Business
$14.99
2
$29.98
Your Name Is a Song
• Amazon Business
$14.99
2
$29.98
Thank You, Omu!
• Amazon Business
$14.89
2
$29.78
Introducing Teddy: A gentle story about gender and friendship
• Amazon Business
$14.49
2
$28.98
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists, 1)
• Amazon Business
$14.47
2
$28.94
Mae Among the Stars
• Amazon Business
$14.39
2
$28.78
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
• Amazon Business
$13.87
2
$27.74
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando
• Amazon Business
$12.99
2
$25.98
Malia in Hawaii: Celebrating All the Parts of Me
• Amazon Business
$12.95
2
$25.90
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist (Women in Science Books, Marine Biology for Kids, Shark Gifts)
• Amazon Business
$12.80
2
$25.60
Carmela Full of Wishes
• Amazon Business
$12.68
2
$25.36
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
• Amazon Business
$12.39
2
$24.78
Aaron Slater, Illustrator (The Questioneers)
• Amazon Business
$12.36
2
$24.72
Bruce Lee (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 29)
• Amazon Business
$12.19
2
$24.38
Where Are You From?
• Amazon Business
$11.98
2
$23.96
Mindy Kaling (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 63)
• Amazon Business
$11.90
2
$23.80
Ho'onani: Hula Warrior
• Amazon Business
$11.59
2
$23.18
My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay
• Amazon Business
$11.59
2
$23.18
Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg's Call to Save the Planet
• Amazon Business
$11.26
2
$22.52
My Hair is a Garden
• Amazon Business
$10.70
2
$21.40
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Denene Millner Books)
• Amazon Business
$10.64
2
$21.28
Mixed Me!
• Amazon Business
$8.99
2
$17.98
Zaha Hadid (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 31)
• Amazon Business
$8.89
2
$17.78
Beatrice's Goat
• Amazon Business
$8.69
2
$17.38
Coolies
• Amazon Business
$7.99
2
$15.98
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
• Amazon Business
$7.99
2
$15.98
Jacob's New Dress
• Amazon Business
$7.99
2
$15.98
Evonne Goolagong (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 36)
• Amazon Business
$7.46
2
$14.92
Materials cost
$1,708.14
Vendor shipping charges
$3.07
Sales tax
$149.46
3rd party payment processing fee
$25.62
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$1,916.29
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$338.17
Total project goal
$2,254.46
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$2,254.46
10 Donors
-$1,492.29
Donations toward project cost
-$1,284.20
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$208.09
match offer
-$743.64
Match offer toward project cost
-$632.09
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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