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

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When Do the Black Girls Win?

Help me give my students children's and YA books with BIPOC narrators (who win)!

FULLY FUNDED! Dr. Cohen's classroom raised $522

This project is fully funded

My Project

Aligned with the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University's Teachers' Institute, I created a unit entitled “When Do the Black Girls Win,” which empowers students to learn about and reflect on what constitutes a narrator’s “win” in Young Adult and Children's Literature. Students will read children’s literature with BIPOC narrators who defy single stories and find their successes in everyday life. In this way, BIPOC girls can see narrators who do not need to survive, achieve notoriety, or act as saviors to be positioned as heroes. By examining their relationships with these narrators, students will investigate whether narrators who serve as “mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors,” who defy single narratives, serve as authentic representations and models of different kinds of “winners.”

After writing an argumentative essay on what it means for a girl to “win,” students will use the children's books as models and author their heroic narratives – in both multimedia and print forms – to serve as high-interest reading choices for the younger students in the School District of Philadelphia.

By publishing their own divergent stories, my students and their audiences will contest the existing terrain by reframing the traditional tropes of BIPOC girls. They will position their journeys as academically legitimate and valuable selections of literary art worthy of scholarly exploration. Ultimately, this art will serve as an archive for the future – stories told by and for the exact communities most at risk of being forgotten. By reading, writing, and sharing stories within a community‑rooted practice of healing, resistance, and historic preservation, this unit will showcase the normativity of Black girls who win.

Dr. Cohen Philadelphia High School for Girls Grades 9-12

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

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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
4 Book Set: Graphic Novels #4 - Underrepresented Stories Social Emotional Learning (paperback 10+) Snapdragon, El Deafo, Space Boy 1-3, Parachute Kids • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $62.00 1 $62.00
3 Book Set: LATINO VOICES Bundle: Alma,Growing An Artist,Julián Is a Mermaid (hardcover picture books,underrepresented authors) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $48.00 1 $48.00
Misfit in Love (Saints and Misfits) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family (hardcover picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $18.00 1 $18.00
Freedom Soup • Amazon Business $7.28 2 $14.56
Saturday - Reinforced Book • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Chlorine Sky - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
You Should See Me in a Crown (paperback) - Reese's Book Club YA Pick • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $12.00 1 $12.00
The Black Flamingo - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
The Weight of Our Sky • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine • Amazon Business $11.31 1 $11.31
When Aidan Became a Brother • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
Rise to the Sun - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $10.60 1 $10.60
The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner • Amazon Business $10.60 1 $10.60
Too Bright to See: (Newbery Honor Award Winner) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
The Black Kids • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
Milo Imagines the World • Amazon Business $10.27 1 $10.27
Alma and How She Got Her Name • Amazon Business $10.08 1 $10.08
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them • Amazon Business $9.34 1 $9.34
American Born Chinese • Amazon Business $9.05 1 $9.05
Monday's Not Coming • Amazon Business $9.04 1 $9.04
Tyler Johnson Was Here • Amazon Business $7.97 1 $7.97
Ruby Finds a Worry (Big Bright Feelings) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Team Earth Takeover (Ellie Ultra) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Genesis Begins Again • Amazon Business $6.77 1 $6.77
My Name Is Yoon - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $6.24 1 $6.24
Chlorine Sky • Amazon Business $6.20 1 $6.20
Keena Ford - Keena Ford and the Second-Grade Mix-Up - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$407.36

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$443.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$78.26

Total project goal

$521.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $521.73

1 Donor

-$521.73

Donations toward project cost

-$443.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.26

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