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Mrs. Syler from Andrews, SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sharing Good Stories Builds Character, Community

Help me give my students access to high-quality literature to share with classmates

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Syler's classroom raised $761

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are creative, fun, and full of innovative ideas! They love creating concepts and working together to make them come to fruition. My students come from a low-income, high poverty, small town, rural community. My students love learning, and many of them often have few opportunities to grow and learn unless they are at school. As their media specialist, I work to create opportunities that challenge them and set high expectations so they can discover their greatest potential.

Many of my students have experienced more difficulties in their short lives than many adults.

School is often their only constant in life, providing for many of them a warm place to be and two meals a day. Some are taking care of younger siblings at home while their parents work, and some are unsure of where they will be sleeping at night. I have to be more than their teacher; I am their parent, their mentor, their coach, and their disciplinarian. While they are at school, I'd like for them to have chances to experience learning in a whole different way while also learning life-long skills of communication and collaboration. I cannot let them down.

My Project

It's always said that books serve as mirrors for students' lives as well as windows into the lives of others. By sharing high-quality literature, students can learn how to overcome obstacles by living vicariously through and connecting with characters in the stories they read. Students can also learn how to accept differences because they truly come to understand that people are people with the same emotions, obstacles, and perseverance to succeed no matter where they are located.

These books will be used to start student book clubs!

My goal is to get our students to read and discuss books with their peers. While the kids will think they're just reading a book with classmates, what they don't know is that they are building their vocabulary, strengthening their comprehension skills, and making connections to high-quality texts all while building a school community of readers.

Mrs. Syler Rosemary Middle School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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.

Andrews, SC View local requests

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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $13.75 15 $206.25
Akata Witch • Amazon Business $9.89 15 $148.35
Bad Boy: A Memoir • Amazon Business $7.49 15 $112.35
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • Amazon Business $6.74 15 $101.10

Materials cost

$568.05

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $40.05

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$646.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$114.11

Total project goal

$760.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $760.73

6 Donors

-$415.24

Donations toward project cost

-$359.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.80

match offer

-$337.86

Match offer toward project cost

-$287.18

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.68

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.63

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 $0.00

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