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Mrs. Hill from Tall Timbers, MD is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Celebrating Our Differences Through a Classroom Library of Diversity

Help me give my students the opportunity to explore and continue to celebrate the diversity in our learning community through a classroom library that is inclusive and diverse.

  • $374 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

The 26 third graders in my classroom care about each other and work hard to express their citizenship and respect for each other. I call them my heroes because they work hard to overcome any adversity that threatens our community of learners. We gather daily for morning meetings. During this time, we share about ourselves, our lives, and our hopes and dreams.

My students amaze me every day with their insight, their compassion, and their empathy for their classmates.

We are a diverse community and enjoy celebrating our differences. This is a great group of readers who are interested in the world around them and beyond.

My Project

I have a classroom full of readers! The students are continual "trading" books. The community in which we live is becoming increasingly diverse, and our classroom library lacks the materials that acknowledge and celebrate the differences in our community. We have students from several cultures and races, from blended families, with identity struggles, and many more things that make us different.

I would like to provide books that my students can relate to and learn from.

My students need books that have characters with similar life situations. We often talk about role models that "look like" them. My students also need books that provide positive images of diversity in communities.

Books take us to places that we may never be able to visit. Books often help us to understand how someone who is different from us can also be the same. Students not only need books that celebrate their own self imagines, but they also need books that help them to celebrate those who are different.

Mrs. Hill
Grades 3-5
    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

    This project will reach 26 students.

    8 donors have given to this project.

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Happy in Our Skin • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
I Dissent • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Marisol McDonald no combina (Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match) • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Malala's Magic Pencil • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Librarian of Basra • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
My Name Is Bilal • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Eight Days • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
A Boy Called Bat • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
A Bike Like Sergio's • AKJ Education $11.67 1 $11.67
A Different Pond • AKJ Education $11.64 1 $11.64
El Deafo • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Crazy Horse's Vision • AKJ Education $8.72 1 $8.72
Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds • AKJ Education $7.99 1 $7.99
Cora Cooks Pancit • AKJ Education $7.99 1 $7.99
Baseball Saved Us • AKJ Education $7.99 1 $7.99
Black Heroes of the Wild West • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Tangerine • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Goin' Someplace Special • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Crossing Bok Chitto A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Inside Out and Back Again • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Ruby's Wish • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Whoever You Are • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
My Name Is Yoon • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Name Jar • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Rickshaw Girl • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
The Skirt • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
My Name Is Maria Isabel • AKJ Education $4.19 1 $4.19

Materials cost

$261.71

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $15.70

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$317.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$56.00

Total project goal

$373.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $373.34

5 Donors

-$340.23

Donations toward project cost

-$289.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.03

match offer

-$33.11

Match offer toward project cost

-$28.14

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.97

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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