Help me give my students diverse books to read. Representation in books supports students' ability to see themselves as readers and scholars. These incredible books represent the students' culture, history, and identity.
Our students are readers. Their excitement to read engaging books is clear. Our students population is diverse. Our population breakdown: 26.7% African American, 26.3% Hispanic/Latino, 30.8% White, and 11.5% two or more races. 63.4% of our students are economically disadvantaged. 12.4 of our students have disabilities. 26.1% of our students have limited English proficiency. Students in Kindergarten and First grade learn half their day in English and half of their day in Spanish.
Our students are intelligent, creative, and determined.
Each year we will add another grade of dual language immersion (DLI) classes until there is at least one section of DLI within each grade level. Finally, we are a nationally recognized Welcoming School and we intentionally teach ally behavior especially by supporting the LGBT community and individuals.
My Project
My students love to read. They yearn for great new books that represent their lives, histories, and cultures. The books currently on our shelves do not truly nor fully represent our student population.
Representation in books empowers and supports students’ academic success.
My goal is that students see themselves in the books they read. Our population is wonderfully diverse and thus our books should be as well. Diverse books give students opportunity to read about lives different than theirs’. Diverse books will help all of my readers.
I am requesting books written by and featuring people of different races, identities, heritages, and beliefs. This list will focus on books in English and Spanish.
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