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  • Mill Street Elementary School
  • Naperville, IL
  • More than a third 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

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As I enter my first year in the classroom, it is clear to me that I am in need of more diverse books for my students. Although I have been doing my best to scour book stores and rummage through garage sales for my classroom library, I am still in need of texts which represent a wide variety of cultures, languages, people with varying abilities, and historical perspectives. Monetarily, it has been difficult for me thus far to furnish all that I need for my students in my first year of teaching and to also provide quality literature for my classroom library. My job as a teacher is to help foster my students' abilities to be educated, empathetic, responsible, and engaged global citizens who will one day make the decisions that will affect the future of our world. In order to accomplish this task, I must provide opportunities for my students to both see themselves within texts, and to also see others who are different from themselves within texts as well. A wise educator once said, “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience" (Rudine Sims Bishop). Please help give the students in my classroom some windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. I am forever grateful for your consideration.

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As I enter my first year in the classroom, it is clear to me that I am in need of more diverse books for my students. Although I have been doing my best to scour book stores and rummage through garage sales for my classroom library, I am still in need of texts which represent a wide variety of cultures, languages, people with varying abilities, and historical perspectives. Monetarily, it has been difficult for me thus far to furnish all that I need for my students in my first year of teaching and to also provide quality literature for my classroom library. My job as a teacher is to help foster my students' abilities to be educated, empathetic, responsible, and engaged global citizens who will one day make the decisions that will affect the future of our world. In order to accomplish this task, I must provide opportunities for my students to both see themselves within texts, and to also see others who are different from themselves within texts as well. A wise educator once said, “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience" (Rudine Sims Bishop). Please help give the students in my classroom some windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. I am forever grateful for your consideration.

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