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Ms. Tecler from Silver Spring, MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reflecting and Representing Our Readers

Help me give my students new books that celebrate and highlight the diverse population represented in our school community!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Tecler's classroom raised $193

This project is fully funded

My Project

When students visit our school's media center, they always ask, "Do you have any new books?" They're especially interested in reading books that feature people or characters who look like they do or that reflect experiences similar to their own, so it is critical that our media center collection includes titles that allow students to see themselves represented.

This project will bring our readers a variety of new books that celebrate and highlight the diverse population of readers in our school community so that everyone is able to see themselves reflected in the media center collection.

The titles include books for all interests and ranges of readers, from picture books and poetry to biographies and graphic novels. There's something for everyone, which will help to support our goal of engaging readers while building a love of reading that will last a lifetime.

Ms. Tecler Dr Charles Drew Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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.

Silver Spring, MD View local requests

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

475 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Speak Up, Santiago!: (A Hillside Valley Graphic Novel) • Amazon Business $17.81 1 $17.81
So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Let's Fly!: Barrington Irving's Record-Breaking Flight Around the World • Amazon Business $14.10 1 $14.10
Great Minds of Science (Black Lives #1): A Nonfiction Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
Girls on the Rise • Amazon Business $12.24 1 $12.24
Do You Even Know Me? • Amazon Business $11.60 1 $11.60
A Child's Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World's Coolest Music (A Child's Introduction Series) • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Supa Nova (Supa Nova, 1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
I See Color • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
It's Her Story Mae Jemison a Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29

Materials cost

$124.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$7.44

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$163.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.82

Total project goal

$192.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$192.12

2 Donors

-$192.12

Donations toward project cost

-$163.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.82

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$0.00

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