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Mrs. Flynn from Sparks, NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Representation Matters: Diversifying Authors and Protagonists in Classroom Literature

Help me give my students new and diverse books to promote interest as well as social and emotional learning goals!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Flynn's classroom raised $917

This project is fully funded

My Students

I teach an amazing group of diverse high school students who are thrilled to be back in the classroom with their peers after a year of distance or hybrid learning. They are enthusiastic, curious, and ready to be engaged with each other in the learning process.

My students want to read stories about people and by people who are as diverse as they are.

They can't wait to talk to their friends and peers about current events and story lines that feel like they could be happening right now. They are ready to move away from a computer screen as their main mode for learning and sink their minds into a good old fashioned book.

My Project

Students who have choice regarding the literature they read and grapple with are more committed to their work and have more fun. My school has many classic canonical books available for students, but these books are not modern, high-interest books that my students might choose to read on their own. This project seeks to provide more diversity in my classroom library so that students can read and analyze books with high literary value which they might have picked up to read on their own.

Students also have a faster and richer connection with a text when they relate to the protagonist or the author.

To support students' social and emotional learning goals, this project will place books in my classroom with main characters that have much in common with my students, and who are grappling with conflicts that are relatable to my students. Finally, by placing 8-12 copies of these diverse books in my classroom, I can create book clubs for students who have been waiting to get back into the classroom with their peers to discuss literature, live life, and to grow, together.

Mrs. Flynn Edward C Reed 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.

Sparks, NV 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

170 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
All American Boys • AKJ Education $14.59 12 $175.08
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • AKJ Education $13.13 12 $157.56
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • AKJ Education $10.94 12 $131.28
Eleanor & Park • AKJ Education $13.86 8 $110.88
Girl Mans Up • AKJ Education $13.13 8 $105.04

Materials cost

$679.84

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $53.37

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$779.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$137.54

Total project goal

$916.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $916.95

1 Donor

-$916.95

Donations toward project cost

-$779.41

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$137.54

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