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Ms. Amanda from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books for ELLs Learning About Teen Social Experiences and Pressures

Help me give my students access to books/audiobooks to guide them through topics like addiction, consent, body changes, and peer pressure.

  • $532 goal

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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

Our small Title 1 school sits at the base of the Manhattan Bridge, hidden among the ever-growing collection of luxury high rises overtaking Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue.

My students are all recently arrived newcomers who have lived in the United States for less than 4 years and come from a wide variety of countries such as Guatemala, Haiti, Senegal, and Yemen.

As students work together on a project, you might hear them discussing in a variety of languages such as Haitian Creole, French, Arabic, Spanish, or Wolof. We see this diversity as an incredible opportunity, but one that sometimes needs additional support beyond what our public school budget can offer.

My Project

Students are motivated to be digging into novels about experiences that are similar to their own, but for some of our newer English language learners, some additional supports are helpful for them as they take on the challenge of reading a full-length English novel and/or non-fiction book.

We are building a library of accessible books and audio books to encourage our developing language learners to persevere through these deeper social topics and reading challenges.

As a learning community we have seen an increased need within our student population to discuss topics like poverty, abuse, addiction, consent, and mental health more deeply and more often. Our hope is that through the experiences of the characters and people in these books students might be able to come together and have more honest discussions that lead to a more personal understanding of how they might react/respond in their futures to best support themselves and the people around them.

Ms. Amanda Brooklyn International High School Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than half 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

95 students impacted 10donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Consent: The New Rules of Sex Education: Every Teen's Guide to Healthy Sexual Relationships • Amazon Business $11.64 15 $174.60
Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity • Amazon Business $26.09 2 $52.18
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape • Amazon Business $12.91 2 $25.82
Dating and Sex: A Guide for the 21st Century Teen Boy • Amazon Business $12.23 2 $24.46
American Medical Association Girl's Guide to Becoming a Teen • Amazon Business $11.66 2 $23.32
American Medical Association Boy's Guide to Becoming a Teen • Amazon Business $10.57 2 $21.14
I’m a Boy Hormones! for Ages 11 and Over: Anatomy For Kids Book Explains To Older Boys How Hormones Are Changing Their Body and What they Can Expect • Amazon Business $10.13 2 $20.26
Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls • Amazon Business $9.39 2 $18.78
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: 10th Anniversary Edition • amazon $14.95 1 $14.95
Looking for Alaska • amazon $14.95 1 $14.95
The Care and Keeping of You 2: The Body Book for Older Girls • Amazon Business $6.69 2 $13.38
Just Keep It In Your Pants?: How Wise Dads Talk To Their Sons About Sex, Love and Pornography • Amazon Business $5.99 2 $11.98

Materials cost

$415.82

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$452.06

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.78

Total project goal

$531.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $531.84

7 Donors

-$351.44

Donations toward project cost

-$318.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.22

Matching donations from our partners

-$157.46

Match offers toward project cost

-$133.84

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$22.94

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 $0.00

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