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Mr. Stuchell from El Cajon, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Supporting Teens by Support Diversity

Help me give my students books which match the diversity within our classrooms and society.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Stuchell's classroom raised $252

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are your prototypical middle school students. They love to learn (even if they won't admit to it), and they love to have fun (even when they are not supposed to). My students love to learn about the world and are consistently seeking to expand their horizons beyond the four walls of our classroom and the confines of our school. They love to learn and are constantly asking questions about the world around them.

More than 40% of the students at our school come from low-income households.

A further 11% of students are classified as English Language Learners. Nearly 44% of the school identifies as persons of color. Overall the students from our school are a very diverse crowd representative of the neighborhoods in which they come from. Our school serves over 1,500 students who are eager to learn about new and exciting perspectives.

My Project

Today's youth are increasingly more diverse. Society as a whole continues to move towards a more and more diverse and accepting mode. Schools, while being bastions of learning, are slow to upgrade their materials to help support this diversity. Many students will fail to have access to books whose characters represent their lives. They will go throughout their school years without the joy of reading about people who look like them, talk like them, love like them, and have the same problems and issues as they do.

It is not enough for teachers to support diversity, the materials students have access to must also be diverse.

My goal is to help students not only find books that they love, but to find inspiration in the characters and situations found in these books. Students deserve a place that recognizes the humanity within all of us. It should be the world around us, but until it is my classroom will be one place they can go where they will be recognized.

Mr. Stuchell Hillsdale Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

El Cajon, CA 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

180 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Simonverse Novels 3-Book Box Set: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited, and Leah on the Offbeat • Amazon Business $20.49 1 $20.49
Not Your Sidekick • Amazon Business $14.46 1 $14.46
Not Your Villain (Sidekick Squad) • Amazon Business $14.46 1 $14.46
The Necessary Hunger • Amazon Business $13.73 1 $13.73
Not Your Backup (Sidekick Squad) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
None of the Above • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
If I Was Your Girl • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
It's Not Like It's a Secret • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Symptoms of Being Human • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Boy Meets Boy • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Dark Life • Amazon Business $8.75 1 $8.75
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
When the Moon Was Ours: A Novel • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
The Perks of Being a Wallflower • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19

Materials cost

$166.39

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $15.22

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$214.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.78

Total project goal

$251.89

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $251.89

2 Donors

-$81.91

Donations toward project cost

-$74.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.04

match offer

-$163.81

Match offer toward project cost

-$139.24

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.57

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.17

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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