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Mrs. Baird from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse Books for Diverse Learners

Help me give my students books with diverse characters to match the diversity in our school.

  • $314 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

My students are growing up in unprecedented times under the unique pressures of an under-resourced community in South-Central Los Angeles. Almost all of my students receive free or reduced-price lunch, and the ethnic and racial breakdown is 97% Hispanic, 2% Black/African-American, and 1% White and Asian.

Many of my students are first-generation Americans and come to my school far below grade level in reading and writing.

My school is tasked with bringing our scholars up to grade level before they enter high school. The teachers at my school work tirelessly to provide supports to help our scholars access grade-level material, and the students rise to the occasion and often see gains of multiple grade levels in just a year of instruction.

Returning to in-person instruction is exciting for my students, and although we know they've fallen further behind than they were before and that online instruction only exacerbated the abundant inequity in education, I know that my scholars will continue to put in the work and do amazing things.

My Project

The population of students I teach doesn't often see themselves represented in the books they read. They also don't often have a chance to learn about anybody other than famous white people. Books are supposed to work as mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors according to Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop. Right now, my students are only looking through windows.

My students need books that they can see themselves in.

They need books that are mirrors. They also need books that offer different window views than just straight, white protagonists. Finally, they need books that are sliding glass doors. Books that they can use to put themselves in another's shoes.

Mrs. Baird Alliance College - Ready Middle Academy 12 Grades 6-8

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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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Tristan Strong Destroys the World (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2) (Tristan Strong, 2) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Cemetery Boys • Amazon Business $14.30 1 $14.30
Aru Shah and the City of Gold: A Pandava Novel Book 4 (Pandava Series, 4) • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home • Amazon Business $13.50 1 $13.50
Shuri: A Black Panther Novel (Marvel) (1) • Amazon Business $12.46 1 $12.46
Love Is a Revolution • Amazon Business $12.40 1 $12.40
The Vanished (Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #2) (2) • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Swing (Blink) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Solo (Blink) • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Love in English • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 1) (Tristan Strong, 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Only Black Girls in Town • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
National Geographic Readers: African-American History Makers (Readers Bios) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Something to Say • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (A Pandava Novel Book 3) (Pandava Series, 3) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Good Kind of Trouble • Amazon Business $7.75 1 $7.75

Materials cost

$213.52

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $19.54

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$266.26

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.99

Total project goal

$313.25

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $313.25

1 Donor

-$313.25

Donations toward project cost

-$266.26

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.99

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