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Ms. Crowl from Hilo, HI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Changing Perspectives, Changing Minds

Help me give my students books with multicultural and local perspectives to help promote social emotional learning.

  • $921 goal

This project expired on June 24, 2024.

This project expired on June 24, 2024.

My Project

The pandemic interrupted campus activities and changed the lives of students in profound ways. While teenagers usually were able to maintain ties to close family and friends, they lost opportunities to interact in person with diverse groups on campus and in the community. A lack of experience with peers from a variety of backgrounds at this stage of social and emotional development led to some awkwardness and misunderstandings when students were finally allowed back on campus.

Books with multicultural and local Hawaii perspectives engage teens in rich discussions that lead them to reflect on their changing identities and responsibilities.

Local Hawaii writers explore subjects that resonate with my high schoolers and get them to think deeply about themselves in terms of their relationships to their communities, cultures, families, friends, and peers.

Social-emotional and academic learning takes place when students have the chance to read and discuss relevant local, national and global issues and the current shifts, including those in technology, mental health, race, gender, poverty, juvenile justice, native values, immigration, diaspora, and the American Dream.

Ms. Crowl Hilo High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Hilo, HI 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

150 students impacted

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hula: A Novel • Amazon Business $16.00 30 $480.00
Sharks in the Time of Saviors • Amazon Business $7.69 30 $230.70

Materials cost

$710.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.27

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$782.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$138.11

Total project goal

$920.74

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