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Mrs. Jacobson from Pekin, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diversity and Acceptance Books for Children

Help me give my students new books about diversity, inclusion, and acceptance to introduce them to experiences of people like them and people different from them.

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My Students

Second grade has changed a lot over the years. The students are expected to achieve more than ever before. How can they do this without being provided the materials to do it?

My students are in a high poverty public school that is about 70% low income.

This is something that already puts some of them at a disadvantage. They are not all able to get extra materials at home to continue learning what has been introduced at school. For this reason, I want to be able to expose them to as many learning opportunities as possible! It is in my classroom where they get to take risks and open their minds to new learning experiences! I need your help to give them all of these experiences!

My Project

More and more it is important for children to read books about people that are unlike themselves. It is important for children to learn empathy and acceptance. This is what I hope to accomplish with the books being requested in this project like: Separate is Never Equal, We All Belong, It's Okay to be Different, and Happy in Our Skin. These books will be used as read alouds for the whole class discussion, as well as put in the class library for students to read independently.

Representation matters.

And I want to have books in my classroom that represent all of my students and their families. It is important for children to see characters like them in books and it's important for children to see characters that aren't like them in books. I want to provide all of these opportunities to the children in my class.

Mrs. Jacobson Dirksen Primary School Grades PreK-2

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Pekin, IL View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Big Umbrella • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $13.63 1 $13.63
Separate Is Never Equal • AKJ Education $13.27 1 $13.27
Emmanuel's Dream • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I Promise • Amazon Business $12.98 1 $12.98
We All Belong: A Children's Book About Diversity, Race and Empathy • Amazon Business $12.45 1 $12.45
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $12.45 1 $12.45
Diversity Ninja: An Anti-racist, Diverse Children’s Book About Racism and Prejudice, and Practicing Inclusion, Diversity, and Equality • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Julián Is a Mermaid • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
It's OK to be Different: A Children's Picture Book About Diversity and Kindness • Amazon Business $9.97 1 $9.97
Hair Like Mine (1) (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Mixed Me! • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Rain Boy: (Kindness Books for Kids and Children, Teaching Empathy, Inclusion, and Diversity) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Chocolate Me! • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Max and the Tag-Along Moon • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Happy in Our Skin • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
Two Homes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
New Shoes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Those Shoes • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59
The Name Jar • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59

Materials cost

$206.12

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.09

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$245.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$43.27

Total project goal

$288.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $288.48

3 Donors

-$204.23

Donations toward project cost

-$173.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.63

match offer

-$84.25

Match offer toward project cost

-$71.61

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.64

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