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Ms. Ryan from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Seeing Is Believing: Representative Informational Texts

Help me give my students Ordinary People Change the World books and informational texts about diverse leaders and the world around us.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Ryan's classroom raised $380

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

"Do we have to leave?" Our students are funny, compassionate, and imaginative children that enjoy exploring new skills and developing their literacy skills. They attend an elementary school in the Kensington section of Northern Philadelphia.

The room buzzes throughout the day as they laugh, sing, and share with their peers.

They are a thoughtful, loving, and hardworking bunch, excited to learn and grow. While they are motivated by their dreams and engaged by the opportunities presented to them, due to economic challenges within the community, school, and district, our resources are limited. As their teacher, I struggle to provide sufficient and enriching supplies that will support holistic learning. However, at our school, we are resourceful and do with what we have, but our students deserve and require more.

My Project

My students thrive learning about the world around them. Although they enjoy fictional stories, more often than not they opt to read an informational text about a variety of subjects. The books that I have requested are based on their interests and representative of inspirational role models that look like them.

By incorporating these books in our classroom library, our students will have access to books that will fuel their career choices while learning about those that have gone before them.

These books promote an understanding of multiculturalism and inclusion because it they represent international and local influential figures and topics that both directly and indirectly impact them.

Ms. Ryan Gloria Casarez Elementary School Grades 3-5

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.

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Nearly all 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
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia (Millbrook Picture Books) • Amazon Business $18.94 1 $18.94
Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
The Best Police Officer • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
I Got This: To Gold and Beyond • Amazon Business $14.37 1 $14.37
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
I am Gandhi (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
I am Lucille Ball (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $11.71 1 $11.71
I am Sonia Sotomayor (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $10.91 1 $10.91
I am Neil Armstrong (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $10.91 1 $10.91
I am Harriet Tubman (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $9.82 1 $9.82
National Geographic Kids Everything Weather: Facts, Photos, and Fun that Will Blow You Away • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
I am Helen Keller (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $8.87 1 $8.87
The Lotus Seed • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Gabby Douglas (Amazing Athletes) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
A Day in the Life of a Firefighter (TIME FOR KIDS® Nonfiction Readers) • Amazon Business $7.55 1 $7.55
Cells • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Black Pioneers of Science and Invention • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
My Chinatown: One Year in Poems • Amazon Business $6.36 1 $6.36
Polar Bear, Why Is Your World Melting? • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
I Wonder Why the Sun Rises and Other Questions About Time and Seasons • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Cloud Book • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Fossil Hunters • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
What If You Had Animal Feet? • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Avalanche! • AKJ Education $4.75 1 $4.75
Life in the Arctic • AKJ Education $4.75 1 $4.75
What If You Had Animal Eyes? • Amazon Business $4.57 1 $4.57
What If You Had Animal Teeth? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Would Win? Polar Bear vs. Grizzly Bear • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Komodo Dragon vs. King Cobra (Who Would Win?) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Hill of Fire • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Ice Mummy: The Discovery of a 5,000 Year-Old Man • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Space: Planets, Moons, Stars, and More! • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Discovery in the Cave • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
The Day the Dinosaurs Died • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
When I Grow Up: Misty Copeland (Scholastic Reader, Level 3) • Amazon Business $2.89 1 $2.89

Materials cost

$287.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$322.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$56.86

Total project goal

$379.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $379.08

5 Donors

-$359.08

Donations toward project cost

-$305.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.86

match offer

-$20.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$17.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.00

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