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Mr. Fowler from San Jose, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Fully Stocked Ethnic Studies Classroom!

My students need these classroom sets of books, which will be integrated throughout my ethnic studies class, the first of its kind at our high school.

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My Students

Through a series of collectively chosen and critical thinking activities my ethnic studies classroom builds on students lives as the root of their curriculum. The books will be made available to help students in their exploration of their histories and the histories of others.

My ethnic studies classroom is filled with students from various diverse backgrounds (economic status, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and ability.) Many of them come to the classroom with past traumas from home, their community and the classroom.

This manifests in resilient students ready to engage about their experience and connect to others.

My Project

These materials will be used for auto-ethnographies, critical community exploration projects, and other reflective activities to help students build an understanding about the four core principles of the pathway Identity, Diversity, Justice, and Action. Students will have open time to utilize some of these books like the "Stay Solid: a radical guide for youth" which will be used for students to explore different themes in their lives like family, schooling, and gender. This book will be also a model for a project students will create called the community regeneration essay, where students write about how they want to change themselves and their community throughout their lives. In addition, Zinn and Takaki will give the students a foundational knowledge of the diverse lives of Americans. Shifting the lens to people more related to them and their families.

At the end of the year students will have a greater analysis of their own struggles and find them as a source of strength to empower themselves and others.

The biggest challenge to getting my students there is finding resources that speak to their realities. When asking my students about why they wanted to take ethnic studies many of them gave differing perspectives. This is one sample: “ I want to be a part of the social justice pathway to be an inspiration to my family and community"

Mr. Fowler Yerba Buena High School Grades 9-12

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San Jose, CA View local requests

More than a third 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

150 students impacted 18donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution • Amazon Business $20.34 30 $610.20
Stay Solid!: A Radical Handbook for Youth • Amazon Business $17.06 30 $511.80
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America • Amazon Business $12.27 30 $368.10
A People's History of the United States • Amazon Business $11.99 30 $359.70

Materials cost

$1,849.80

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$169.26

3rd party payment processing fee

$27.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,076.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$366.50

Total project goal

$2,443.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$2,443.31

14 Donors

-$1,802.34

Donations toward project cost

-$1,610.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$191.60

Matching donations from our partners

-$548.32

Match offers toward project cost

-$466.07

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$82.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$92.65

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$0.00

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