Reading to Increase Racial Justice and Representation
Help me give my students books that help to promote racial justice and a wider range of representation. As well as a professional text to help me become a more thoughtful and effective educator.
My students inspire and surprise me all of the time! I have the privilege of working with small groups of learners who work hard, collaborate, and continue to build their reading stamina and language skills every day. We live in a small mountain community in Northern California. My first through fifth-grade students, many of whom are multilingual learners, need additional support with reading, writing, and language development. They thrive in learning environments where they feel safe taking risks; where they perceive reading and writing as positive and attainable; and where they know their voices will be heard and honored by those around them.
My students are eager learners who speak a variety of languages, demonstrate unique learning needs, and respond well to rich & engaging instructional approaches.
Many of my students are still figuring out how the English language works, and learning about all of the sounds and spelling patterns that will help them to grow as readers and writers.
My Project
I am eager to continue to increase the resources in our school's shared book-room resources. These books will be available for read-alouds, as well as student and staff access as we continue our work to increase our library of social-justice and equity resources.
We have been working on this project for the last couple of years, and will continue adding to our resources to increase racial justice and representation whenever possible.
These texts will be available for ETK-5th grade teachers, as well as other support staff at our site.
We are dedicated to this project, and appreciate any support that we can get to do this important work. Thank you for your consideration!
Unpack Your Impact: How Two Primary Teachers Ditched Problematic Lessons and Built a Culture-Centered Curriculum
• Amazon Business
$21.74
1
$21.74
Compassionate Kids: A Children's Book About Kindness and Love
• Amazon Business
$17.99
1
$17.99
You Have A Voice
• Amazon Business
$17.99
1
$17.99
Kamala and Maya's Big Idea
• MahoganyBooks
$17.10
1
$17.10
I Believe I Can
• MahoganyBooks
$17.09
1
$17.09
Change Sings
• MahoganyBooks
$17.09
1
$17.09
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut
• MahoganyBooks
$17.05
1
$17.05
The Color of Your Skin
• Amazon Business
$16.95
1
$16.95
Fast Pitch
• MahoganyBooks
$16.19
1
$16.19
Black is a Rainbow Color
• MahoganyBooks
$16.19
1
$16.19
Your Name is a Song
• MahoganyBooks
$15.29
1
$15.29
Clean Getaway
• MahoganyBooks
$15.29
1
$15.29
Black Boy Joy
• MahoganyBooks
$15.29
1
$15.29
This is Your Time
• MahoganyBooks
$14.39
1
$14.39
I Am Whole: A Multi-Racial Children's Book Celebrating Diversity, Language, Race and Culture
• Amazon Business
$13.85
1
$13.85
Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story by Areli Morales, a DACA Recipient
• Amazon Business
$13.59
1
$13.59
Courageous History Makers: 11 Women from Latin America Who Changed the World (English and Spanish Edition) (Little Biographies for Bright Minds)
• Amazon Business
$13.53
1
$13.53
Fearless Trailblazers: 11 Latinos Who Made U.S. History
• Amazon Business
$12.99
1
$12.99
Champions of Kindness
• Amazon Business
$11.99
1
$11.99
Brown Girl Dreaming
• MahoganyBooks
$9.89
1
$9.89
Materials cost
$311.48
Vendor shipping charges
$7.17
Sales tax
$28.50
3rd party payment processing fee
$4.67
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$381.82
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$67.38
Total project goal
$449.20
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$449.20
1 Donor
-$224.60
Donations toward project cost
-$190.91
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$33.69
match offer
-$224.60
Match offer toward project cost
-$190.91
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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