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Dr. Guggenheim from Aurora, CO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Engage All Readers!

Help me give my students the opportunity to engage in reading by giving them access to diverse YA literature!

  • $966 goal

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My Project

Many students in our highly diverse public high school struggle to find books that are engage them, reflect their unique lived experience, and are accessible to given reading levels. Given the recent concerns over the dire status of reading both in Colorado and across the country, it is more important than ever that students find engaging independent reading books.

The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated existing the struggles that many students have with reading (Goldstein, 20220.

Independent reading, while not a "silver bullet" for students, can provide them with opportunities to grow and strengthen their literacy skills. As the National Council of English Teachers has argued, “the advancement of reading comprehension skills and development of vocabulary are directly tied to the work readers do during independent reading” (NCTE, 2019). This means that independent reading can have a direct and tangible impact on our students as readers.

Our grant will seek to provide students access to a rich classroom library that provides them opportunities to not only read texts that matter to them. We will seek to provide time and space for students to read independently and make tangible connections to the content that we are covering in class. For example, each year, our 10th grade students do a research project on how to make a better future for their communities. They can make connections from the work they are doing in their research projects to the characters in their independent reading books by analyzing how these characters are striving to make a better future.

Dr. Guggenheim Overland High School Grades 9-12

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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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel (hardcover) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $19.00 3 $57.00
Cool. Awkward. Black. (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 3 $51.27
Dear Justyce (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 3 $51.27
The Poet X (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $16.00 3 $48.00
All American Boys • AKJ Education $14.59 3 $43.77
Long Way Down • AKJ Education $14.59 3 $43.77
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You (hardcover) • MahoganyBooks $14.39 3 $43.17
The Hate U Give • AKJ Education $13.86 3 $41.58
Maus I y II • AKJ Education $13.49 3 $40.47
March: Book One (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $13.46 3 $40.38
Darius the Great Is Not Okay • AKJ Education $13.13 3 $39.39
American Street • AKJ Education $11.67 3 $35.01
Manga Shakespeare Macbeth • AKJ Education $10.94 3 $32.82
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe • AKJ Education $10.94 3 $32.82
The Hunger Games • AKJ Education $10.13 3 $30.39
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $9.89 3 $29.67
Monster • AKJ Education $9.48 3 $28.44
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) (paperback) • MahoganyBooks $8.09 3 $24.27
Dear Martin • AKJ Education $8.02 3 $24.06
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: The Lightning Thief • AKJ Education $6.29 3 $18.87
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea of Monsters • AKJ Education $5.83 3 $17.49

Materials cost

$773.91

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$820.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$144.80

Total project goal

$965.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $965.32

1 Donor

-$965.32

Donations toward project cost

-$820.52

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$144.80

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