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Ms. Binder from CO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Whole World Reflected in Our Room

My students need mentor texts that reflect the incredible cultural, linguistic, and identity diversity in our classroom!

  • $736 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! 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

I work at an absolutely incredible school. Positivity and hope for our students' futures run amok, even in the face of adversity. It's a high needs area: our school is 95% free and reduced lunch, 90% minority, and 85% English Language Learners. My classroom reflects these demographics in such a beautiful way.

We're a diverse group and together we spend the day learning about fifth grade topics, and through interactions with each other, we learn about the world around us.

My Project

My students love to read. They love read alouds, independent reading and sharing books with others. As we are reading, students try and connect with the characters. However, sometimes there is a disconnect. Most books that we have in our classroom are about white, middle class, straight people. My students are not reflected in the books we read, culturally, linguistically or in their various identities.

Our classroom is incredible.

It hosts eight languages and more personalities and cultures than you can imagine. I want my students to learn in an environment where diversity is encouraged, celebrated, and validated and in a classroom where those values are reflected in the books we read.

In order to dream big, you first have to see yourself in that future position. My students need to see minority characters overcoming odds, becoming president, being confident in who they are, and celebrating diversity with all of these books.

Ms. Binder
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Unforgotten Coat • Amazon Business $15.98 1 $15.98
The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About their Bodies in Pictures and Words • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
My Princess Boy • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) • Amazon Business $14.32 1 $14.32
The Arrival • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Grace for President • Amazon Business $13.96 1 $13.96
The Quiet Place • Amazon Business $13.60 1 $13.60
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale (Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award (Awards)) • Amazon Business $13.52 1 $13.52
Pink and Say • Amazon Business $13.51 1 $13.51
Mr. Lincoln's Way • Amazon Business $13.43 1 $13.43
Mr. Wayne's Masterpiece • Amazon Business $13.42 1 $13.42
The Heart and the Bottle • Amazon Business $13.42 1 $13.42
Enemy Pie (Reading Rainbow book) • Amazon Business $13.17 1 $13.17
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan • Amazon Business $13.12 1 $13.12
Thunder Boy Jr. • Amazon Business $12.68 1 $12.68
A Piece of Home • Amazon Business $12.67 1 $12.67
My Brother Charlie • Amazon Business $12.61 1 $12.61
Ida, Always • Amazon Business $12.58 1 $12.58
A Perfectly Messed-Up Story • Amazon Business $12.50 1 $12.50
The Other Side • Amazon Business $12.48 1 $12.48
Gaston (Gaston and Friends) • Amazon Business $12.38 1 $12.38
The Recess Queen • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
The North Star • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
Yard Sale • Amazon Business $12.14 1 $12.14
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild (Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Awards)) • Amazon Business $11.84 1 $11.84
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $11.58 1 $11.58
The Rainbow Fish • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Ish (Creatrilogy) • Amazon Business $9.82 1 $9.82
Wonder • Amazon Business $9.75 1 $9.75
You Are Not Small • Amazon Business $9.29 1 $9.29
Trash • Amazon Business $8.68 1 $8.68
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Picture Puffin) • Amazon Business $8.55 1 $8.55
The Dot • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The Breadwinner • Amazon Business $8.37 1 $8.37
The Rough-Face Girl • Amazon Business $7.92 1 $7.92
Mockingbird • Amazon Business $7.68 1 $7.68
Skin Again • Amazon Business $7.38 1 $7.38
The Colors of Us • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Kate and the Beanstalk (Anne Schwartz Books) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Thunder Rose • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Tacky the Penguin • Amazon Business $6.97 1 $6.97
Home of the Brave • Amazon Business $6.94 1 $6.94
Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners • Amazon Business $6.94 1 $6.94
The Paper Bag Princess (Munsch for Kids) • Amazon Business $6.78 1 $6.78
My Mouth Is a Volcano! • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
The Birchbark House • Amazon Business $6.38 1 $6.38
William's Doll • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
A Bad Case of Stripes (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch (paperback) • Amazon Business $5.43 1 $5.43
Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
The Story of Ferdinand • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$551.32

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $35.28

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$624.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$110.27

Total project goal

$735.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $735.14

6 Donors

-$663.08

Donations toward project cost

-$582.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$80.71

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.06

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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