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Ms. Shafer from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Our Radical and Inspirational Authors, Part 3!

Help me give my students a library of radical books written by visionaries they adore!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Shafer's classroom raised $1,232

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 curious, action-oriented, and brave, taking on the complexities of health disparities with curiosity and creativity. They are bravely navigating their teenage years in the chaotic and often scary face of a global pandemic. Adapting to this during the already intense experience of puberty and adolescence is unique and challenging.

Health Class is a year-long experience where students gain foundational knowledge of public health through an equity lens at our culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse urban high school.

All 9th graders take this course, and they tackle topics such as nutrition, consent, sexual health, youth healthcare rights, reproductive justice, mental health, violence prevention, and beyond. They develop practical skills through CPR and First Aid training, communication workshops, and harm reduction response techniques.

My Project

My students work in small groups for many of their projects and always ask to read books together. Please help make this a reality for my 9th - 12th-grade students.

This collection of books is a student-chosen list to represent the offerings of BiPOC authors who they (my students) look up to.

This curated list is intended to be the starting point for our discussions of ableism, trans history, medical ethics, supporting black futures, and more.

As a teacher, this student-initiated wide reading is my dream. Let's make this magic happen for them, especially in a year when, due to the pandemic, so much of their magic has been dampened.

Ms. Shafer Mission High School Grades 9-12

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Parable of the Sower:  A Graphic Novel Adaptation: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $21.80 2 $43.60
Drawn to Sex Vol. 2: Our Bodies and Health (2) • Amazon Business $19.99 2 $39.98
Tell Me about Sex, Grandma (Ordinary Terrible Things) • Amazon Business $19.95 2 $39.90
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot • Amazon Business $19.53 2 $39.06
IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All • Amazon Business $18.95 2 $37.90
The Box of Emotions • Amazon Business $18.00 2 $36.00
Concrete Rose • MahoganyBooks $17.99 2 $35.98
The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities Trilogy, 1) • Amazon Business $17.84 2 $35.68
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope • MahoganyBooks $17.09 2 $34.18
The Hate U Give • MahoganyBooks $17.09 2 $34.18
Last Night at the Telegraph Club • Amazon Business $16.99 2 $33.98
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir • Amazon Business $16.24 2 $32.48
Felix Ever After • Amazon Business $16.19 2 $32.38
Displacement • Amazon Business $16.19 2 $32.38
Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance • Amazon Business $16.10 2 $32.20
Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human • Amazon Business $15.99 2 $31.98
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice • Amazon Business $15.95 2 $31.90
The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love • Amazon Business $15.75 2 $31.50
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color • Amazon Business $14.69 2 $29.38
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition • Amazon Business $14.69 2 $29.38
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color • Amazon Business $14.69 2 $29.38
Hot Comb • Amazon Business $14.69 2 $29.38
The Two Kinds Of Decay • Amazon Business $14.07 2 $28.14
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) • Amazon Business $13.45 2 $26.90
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance • Amazon Business $10.96 2 $21.92
The Rose That Grew From Concrete • Amazon Business $10.29 2 $20.58
You Have the Right to Remain Fat • Amazon Business $9.75 2 $19.50
The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel • Amazon Business $9.39 2 $18.78
Pet • MahoganyBooks $8.99 2 $17.98
Julián Is a Mermaid • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$916.57

Vendor shipping charges

 $2.29

Sales tax

 $83.87

3rd party payment processing fee

$13.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,046.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$184.67

Total project goal

$1,231.15

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,231.15

13 Donors

-$628.06

Donations toward project cost

-$533.86

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$94.20

match offer

-$603.09

Match offer toward project cost

-$512.63

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$90.46

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