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Ms. Thomas from Dallas, TX is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Classroom Libraries Are Essential

Help me give my students a class library and classroom storage, thank .

  • $994 goal

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My Project

The ultimate goal of a classroom library is to provide your students with a wide range of reading material that give them a broad array of genres and topics. Promotes inclusion and diversity. Encourages confident and independent readers. Classroom storage is an essential element of any learning environment, as it helps students organize and manage their materials and create a calm and focused atmosphere that supports learning. My students are eager readers who look forward to finding out what adventure their next book will take them on. Everyday reading is an adventure.

Ms. Thomas Umphrey Lee Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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Dallas, 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

46 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carson Dellosa - Chairback Buddy Blue/red • Teachers' School Supply $12.95 30 $388.50
Lakeshore Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Practice Cards - Gr. 4-5 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
A Promised Land (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $45.00 1 $45.00
Bookjoy, Wordjoy • AKJ Education $14.56 3 $43.68
Lakeshore Upper Grades Leveled Books Classroom Library - Books Only - Level S (Gr. 4-5) • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.00 1 $39.00
Becoming Muhammad Ali (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $15.29 2 $30.58
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $21.57 1 $21.57
An American Story (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
I Am Every Good Thing (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Where Are You From? (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 1 $16.00
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $15.30 1 $15.30
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 1 $9.89
Mrs Wordsmith 4th Grade English Humongous Workbook • AKJ Education $9.48 1 $9.48
The Invisible String • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09

Materials cost

$755.55

Vendor shipping charges

 $47.74

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$844.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.05

Total project goal

$993.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $993.67

1 Donor

-$496.83

Donations toward project cost

-$422.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.52

match offer

-$496.84

Match offer toward project cost

-$422.31

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$74.53

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