Picture Books to Build Diverse and Inclusive Learning!
Help me give my students and my classroom social justice picture books. These picture books will help to discuss diversity, inclusion, and antiracism in my classroom. We need these conversations now more than ever!
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. West's classroom raised $315
This project is fully funded
My Students
Most of my students are known as a geographical exception. Their parents opted to send their children to my school, instead of the school located where they live. They live in a rough part of our island and they can be a little rough themselves.
Despite it all they still have so much love to give and this is what continues to amaze me about them everyday.
These students have gone through so much in their young lives. I want to give the students at my school more resources and opportunities. They deserve an outlet and an opportunity to show the world just how amazing they truly are.
As a school we don't have a vast amount of funds to help support our students and our classrooms. My students have shown tremendous growth and are constantly wanting to learn, read, and experience more. I want the resources to help me provide the continuous, exciting learning that my students deserve!
My Project
For young students, picture books open up their worlds to new points of view, experiences, and ideas. As teachers we use picture books constantly to teach our students about important ideas. Picture books are a crucial part of discussion and learning in elementary classrooms.
Now more than ever these conversations need to be happening around acceptance, diversity, and inclusion.
These picture books will be the opening to create conversations around diversity, inclusion, and antiracism in my first grade classroom. It is my goal to create a classroom that is diverse and inclusive, while also creating safe space for my students to have real conversations about tough topics like discrimination and racism. My young students deserve these learning opportunities and important conversations!
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
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
• Amazon Business
$13.79
1
$13.79
Amazing Grace (Grace-picture Books)
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$13.73
1
$13.73
And Tango Makes Three
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$13.29
1
$13.29
I Am Enough
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$13.28
1
$13.28
Teach Your Dragon Empathy: Help Your Dragon Understand Empathy. A Cute Children Story To Teach Kids Empathy, Compassion and Kindness. (My Dragon Books)
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$12.95
1
$12.95
Islandborn
• Amazon Business
$12.84
1
$12.84
Carter Reads the Newspaper
• Amazon Business
$12.79
1
$12.79
Jack (Not Jackie)
• Amazon Business
$12.69
1
$12.69
Dreamers
• Amazon Business
$12.29
1
$12.29
Still a Family: A Story about Homelessness
• Amazon Business
$12.19
1
$12.19
Each Kindness (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards))
• Amazon Business
$12.12
1
$12.12
Yo Soy Muslim: A Father's Letter to His Daughter
• Amazon Business
$11.09
1
$11.09
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)
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$10.54
1
$10.54
Last Stop on Market Street
• Amazon Business
$10.49
1
$10.49
Hair Love
• Amazon Business
$9.96
1
$9.96
Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez/La Historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez
• Amazon Business
$9.39
1
$9.39
A Shelter in Our Car
• Amazon Business
$9.19
1
$9.19
Skin Like Mine (Kids Like Mine)
• Amazon Business
$7.85
1
$7.85
Materials cost
$224.31
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$9.87
3rd party payment processing fee
$3.36
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$267.54
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$47.21
Total project goal
$314.75
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$314.75
1 Donor
-$157.37
Donations toward project cost
-$133.77
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$23.60
match offer
-$157.38
Match offer toward project cost
-$133.77
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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