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

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Bringing Diversity Into the Classroom

Help me give my students a multi-cultural library to help celebrate and learn about our unique backgrounds.

  • $200 goal

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My Students

I teach 21 third grade students in a gifted and talented classroom setting. My students come from families who are new to the country. Some of my students require special services. My students come from varied backgrounds with different economic needs. My students are very bright and they seek enrichment activities.

They like to move, they love to read, and they love lots of positive attention.

Many of them are being raised in single-parent households and receive a free lunch based on their socioeconomic status.

My students are creative, clever, and very spontaneous.

My Project

By donating these books to my classroom the students will be able to learn about different cultures through literature. I am trying to grow my library in a way that my students will encounter characters that are not all alike. These books have characters from India, Africa, Ukraine, and others.

My students come from a wide variety of countries and reading books about where their classmates are from will help promote acceptance of others.

The kids become very excited when they see that book characters can be created to be like themselves and their families. Building a community that celebrates differences is important in my classroom.

Mrs. DeChirico PS 197 Kings Hwy Academy Grades 3-5

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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

21 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Under My Hijab • Amazon Business $13.88 1 $13.88
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.77 1 $12.77
Cinderella's Magical Wheelchair: An Empowering Fairy Tale (Growing with Love) • Amazon Business $10.82 1 $10.82
Let's Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali! (Maya & Neel's India Adventure Series, Book 1) (Volume 1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Let's Celebrate Ramadan & Eid! (Muslim Festival of Fasting & Sweets) (Maya & Neel's India Adventure Series, Book 4) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Babushka is Homesick • Amazon Business $9.90 1 $9.90
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $9.47 1 $9.47
Chocolate Milk, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy • Amazon Business $9.22 1 $9.22
Skin Like Mine (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.03 1 $7.03
Power Forward (Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Cinderella Stories Around the World: 4 Beloved Tales (Multicultural Fairy Tales) • Amazon Business $6.50 1 $6.50
Children of the Longhouse • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
I Love My Hair! • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
On Point (2) (Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream) • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights • Amazon Business $4.05 1 $4.05

Materials cost

$137.23

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$169.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.87

Total project goal

$199.16

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $199.16

4 Donors

-$106.52

Donations toward project cost

-$95.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.25

match offer

-$87.08

Match offer toward project cost

-$74.02

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.06

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.56

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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