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Mrs. Pelaez from Miami Gardens, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Classroom Library: Striving to Represent African American Students through Books

Help me give my students multi-cultural books to build a classroom library that makes all students feel included.

  • $251 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

I teach young children in a low social-economic area in Miami Gardens. I teach in a reverse mainstream special education setting. Students in my classroom have varying disabilities including developmental delays, autism, communication delays, neurodevelopmental disorders and cognitive disabilities to name a few.

In my classroom I make sure to provide all students with the opportunity to learn through differentiated, hands-on developmentally appropriate lessons that help them meet their developmental and academic needs.

Over the years, I have seen all of my students strive to learn and make great progress by making sure that I create a positive classroom environment that caters to their needs.

My Project

Every year I strive to promote literacy in our classroom by making sure that all students feel represented and can connect to the books we read. Through dialogic reading strategies, students enhance their communication skills, language comprehension and reading comprehension through books that are relevant and diverse.

For this project, books listed will help build our classroom library to represent African American students in in our classroom as we discuss acceptance and current events.

As students engage in social-emotional activities in the classroom they can further extend lessons learned through books and interact with their peers to create an inclusive environment.

Mrs. Pelaez Miami Gardens Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Miami Gardens, FL 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

16 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sulwe • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History • Amazon Business $13.93 1 $13.93
What Does It Mean to Be American? • Amazon Business $13.56 1 $13.56
Juneteenth for Mazie (Fiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $12.70 1 $12.70
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
Mixed Me! • Amazon Business $11.94 1 $11.94
Let the Children March • Amazon Business $11.86 1 $11.86
I Am Human: A Book of Empathy (I Am Books) • Amazon Business $11.30 1 $11.30
Hair Love • Amazon Business $10.96 1 $10.96
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
Summer Sun Risin' • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Skin Like Mine (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $8.54 1 $8.54
The Colors of Us • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
If You Were a Kid During the Civil War (If You Were a Kid) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness (I Am Books) • Amazon Business $7.47 1 $7.47

Materials cost

$180.58

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$213.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.64

Total project goal

$250.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $250.93

2 Donors

-$250.93

Donations toward project cost

-$213.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.64

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