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Ms. Miller from Brooklyn NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Representation Matters

Help me give my students books for our classroom library that represents their culture.

  • $829 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrating Black History Month

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I am a special education teacher who works with young children. My students are truly eager and excited to learn. They are anxious to come to school and sad to leave at the end of the day.

Many of my students have a difficult time focusing and are hyperactive.

These students come from a very depressed community and the majority of them live in a housing project close by. They come to me from single family homes and are often times being raised by a grandparent. Sometimes I hear of a father being incarcerated and I witness the sadness in the child's appearance.

Many of my students live in foster homes and some in homeless shelters. Close to ninety-seven percent of our student body participates in the free lunch school program. We are a Title I school and our population is predominantly African American.

In spite of the adversity facing the children, they are incredibly optimistic and excited about their futures. They are eager and anxious to come to school daily and love being with their friends and teachers.

My Project

Children's literature plays an essential role in the literacy development of children.Every student should be able to see themselves in the books they read Currently we do not have books to read that are a true representation of our African American and Hispanic students. Classroom books should promote diverse intersectional experiences. "Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books." (Rudine Sims Bishop, 1990, p. ix). My students deserve to have a diverse library collections that take into account numerous factors, such as race, class, disability, and religion.

Ms. Miller
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
7 Book Bundle for Ages 4-8 • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $90.00 1 $90.00
Coloring Without Borders Coloring Book • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $24.95 1 $24.95
The Year We Learned to Fly • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $20.00 1 $20.00
A Kids Book About Belonging • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.95 1 $19.95
A Kids Book About Gratitude • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.95 1 $19.95
A Kids Book About Climate Change • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.95 1 $19.95
A Kids Book About Racism • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.95 1 $19.95
Daniel Finds His Voice • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 1 $19.00
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
How to Fold a Taco • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Be Bold Be Brave 11 Latinas Who Made US History • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Fearless Trailblazers 11 Latinos Who Made US History • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
The Proudest Blue A Story of Hijab and Family • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
When You Trap a Tiger • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Where Are You From • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
Her Right Foot • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
We Are Water Protectors • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $15.00 1 $15.00
Like Me Leaders • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
Just Ask Be Different Be Brave Be You • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $14.00 1 $14.00
Our Class is a Family • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
Dreamers • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
Last Stop on Market Street • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $13.00 1 $13.00
Wonder • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
Islandborn • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
When Stars Are Scattered • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
My Brown Skin • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Alvin Ailey • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Black Inventors 15 Inventions that Changed the World • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Skin Like Mine • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Round Is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
Brown Boy Joy • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $11.00 1 $11.00
The ABCs of Black History • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Native Americans in History A History Book for Kids • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Say it Show It Gratitude and Kindness Journal • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Callaloo A Jazz Folktale • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
The Story of Ruby Bridges • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
Like Me SPANISH Edition • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
Soft Rain A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
Jabari Jumps PB • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
The Story of Simone Biles • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00
The Story of Martin Luther King Jr • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $8.00 1 $8.00

Materials cost

$659.75

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$704.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$124.35

Total project goal

$829.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $829.00

7 Donors

-$414.49

Donations toward project cost

-$352.32

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.17

match offer

-$414.51

Match offer toward project cost

-$352.33

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.18

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