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• Provide Students With Antiracist Reading Revolution Texts!

  Funded Oct 4, 2024

  Your donation has made a huge impact on our buildings!

  65 teachers engaged in Summer 2024 Book Study Antiracist Reading Revolution, 10 teachers currently are studying the book and using picture books that are listed.

  Antiracist Reading Revolution was centered in Developing Racial Literacy Full Release Days for all Kinder, 4th and 5th teachers in our school district. ARR was also used in district wide grade level after school PLC meetings and some IB building collaboration times.

  In addition, ARR framework used in literacy and leadership meetings to collaborate around a literacy framework. Teachers have been developing ARR aligned lessons and picture books used as model lessons for Black Lives Matter Week of Action this month.

  Thank you for all you do to put these important books in teacher and student hands!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen

  This classroom project was brought to life by SONIC Foundation and 3 other donors.

• Stamped for Kids Book Study - Mirrors and Windows

  Funded Aug 29, 2022

  Students have been learning about Race, Racism and Antiracism in our 5th grade classes and also taking action to create a more just community. Your project supported students in this work by funding class sets and copies for all students to access and read along as they listened to the audio version.

  Students were able to learn about the truth of our history and choose people or events to research to further their learning. The resources and materials developed by teachers and used with your donations were shared across all 14 elementary schools in our district!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen

• Kindness Rocks!

  Funded Feb 28, 2022

  This project supported our SEL curriculum across the building and helped students to see the impact of their actions on students and a sense of belonging across our school. We are so appreciative of your support!

  Teaching into kindness, empathy and a sense of belonging is an important value we are working on teaching into in all of our schools in this district. We know that when students have the support and space to promote kindness across their classrooms, they step up to the challenge and can teach others as well!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen

• Black History Month and Black Lives Matter in Schools

  Funded Feb 9, 2022

  Your contributions to this project allowed our students to have easy access to so many more books written by black authors. This supports our work in providing mirrors and windows into students lives and will help us support students in working toward a more just and equitable world. Our students learned the 13 Black Lives Matter Principles and have been reflecting on how they apply to their lives. These books helped students to think about how the principles are reflected in the texts they read and what they can learn from these writers.”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen

• Increase Representation in our Classroom Libraries!

  Funded Oct 21, 2021

  Thank you so much for donating books to our classroom libraries! Your work has allowed teachers to put diverse, just right and anti-bias books from diverse authors in students hands every day!

  Reading in our classroom looks like students getting into the reading zone with books they choose and that are either mirrors or windows into their lives or the lives of people with identities very different from their own.

  We hope to continue to build our diverse libraries as we believe that books serve as a beautiful opportunity to build more empathy and love in the world! Thank you!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen

  This classroom project was brought to life by Dollar General Literacy Foundation and 2 other donors.

• Centering Native and Indigenous Perspectives

  Funded Nov 18, 2021

  Thank you so much for donating books to our classroom libraries! Your work has allowed teachers to put diverse, just right and anti-bias books from diverse authors in students hands every day!

  Reading in our classroom looks like students getting into the reading zone with books they choose and that are either mirrors or windows into their lives or the lives of people with identities very different from their own.

  We hope to continue to build our diverse libraries as we believe that books serve as a beautiful opportunity to build more empathy and love in the world! Thank you!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen

• Reading Growth Treasure Chest!

  Funded Aug 27, 2019

  Students are very excited for toys and reading prizes for our reading treasure chest. This is a great motivator for students and we are very appreciative. Some students can receive a prize for reading and finishing their first book and others can receive prizes for finishing over 10 books since the beginning of the year. We are focusing on growth over time and having a little incentive helps! Thanks again! We will continue to think of ways to motivate readers and writers in our reading and writing workshop classrooms!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen

  This classroom project was brought to life by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and 11 other donors.

• Spanish & English Texts for Dual Language Classrooms

  Funded Oct 18, 2019

  Thank you so much for funding our project for Dual Language Learners! Your donation will help our readers continue to grow each and every day. Having authentic Spanish and English texts at a variety of levels promotes reading growth and engagement. We are very appreciative for all your do, thanks!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen

• Just-Right Books for Diverse Readers

  Funded Dec 20, 2018

  Thank you so much for the books this project added to our classroom libraries! Students are benefiting from these books daily. Our students participate in reading workshop and reading books of choice across our fiction and non-fiction units. Students in our district benefit from having access to a wide range of texts, at a variety of levels and that have topics and characters that our students can relate to. Students are motivated by new and high interest books and have been devouring the books this project funded. Students in our classes read 45 minutes a day with teacher conferring for formative feedback and assessment. Thank you for growing our readers!”

  With gratitude,

  Ms. Jensen