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Ms. Trayers from Houston, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books to Inspire My Students to Get Involved

Help me give my students books that will inspire them to get involved in their communities. We are requesting titles like: Maybe Something Beautiful, Hey Wall and A Place to Land.

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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 students are resilient, creative, bright and kind. Of course, like the rest of the world, they have been impacted by the pandemic. Some have lost family members, some mirror the anxiety they see in their parents' eyes. Some do not have access to someone regularly reading to them.

I want to inspire our students remotely!

I have continued meeting with my students via Zoom and reading to them regularly. It is so wonderful to still be able to connect with them and share stories. In the fall we will continue to learn online and I am looking for some titles that will inspire our future leaders.

My Project

Watching the news today can be so disheartening. We need our students to become the leaders of the future. I believe the best way to inspire the young ones is by reading them stories of people from our past who did just that. We will continue meeting daily virtually as we begin our school year. I am envisioning projects and activities the students can do from home after hearing these stories.

My students care about the world.

They want to help make the world a better place. They just don't know how to do that. Can one person make a difference? Martin Luther King, Jr. did, Sonya Sontomayer did as did Barbara Jordan. The books I am requesting show how these people used their voice to fight for change in their communities. The books Sofia Valdez, Future Prez is about a little girl fighting City Hall for a local park. Hey Wall is about a community who painted the walls of buildings to help make the community more enticing to visitors.

Through literature, we can inspire our students to step up and fight for what they believe in. The children are our future-help me to show them the way.

Ms. Trayers Berry Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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Houston, TX View local requests

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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Wanda's Roses • Amazon Business $34.94 1 $34.94
Firebird • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Birdsong • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
What Miss Mitchell Saw • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Listen • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
A Stone Sat Still: (Environmental and Nature Picture Book for Kids, Perspective Book for Preschool and Kindergarten, Award Winning Illustrator) • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
Hey, Wall: A Story of Art and Community • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Undefeated (Caldecott Medal Book) • Amazon Business $10.74 1 $10.74
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne • Amazon Business $10.70 1 $10.70
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way • Amazon Business $10.20 1 $10.20
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Another • Amazon Business $9.22 1 $9.22
Dear Mr. Blueberry (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Coretta Scott • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You • Amazon Business $7.22 1 $7.22
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (The Questioneers) • Amazon Business $6.97 1 $6.97
Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood • Amazon Business $6.83 1 $6.83
Quinito's Neighborhood/El Vecindario de Quinito • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$241.49

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$275.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.55

Total project goal

$323.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $323.66

5 Donors

-$173.23

Donations toward project cost

-$154.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.48

Matching donations from our partners

-$141.60

Match offers toward project cost

-$120.36

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.24

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

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