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Mrs. Yankovich from New York, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Growing Readers, Growing Activists

Help me give my students access to high quality texts with diverse characters and stories.

  • $413 goal

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My Students

When you step into my first grade classroom, you will find a community of children that cares deeply about each other and the things they are learning. Our classroom is located in south Harlem, and almost all of our students qualify for free or reduced price lunch.

My first graders model kindness, compassion, and teamwork as they share and listen to each others' ideas in morning meeting, work as a team on a Lego structure, or take turns playing a math game as partners.

All the while there is cheerful, diligent hum about the room as they pick out new books to read, stretch out words in a writing piece, or work through a tricky math problem. These first graders have opened their hearts and minds to each other and to new ideas, new challenges, new discoveries, and new adventures.

My Project

This year our team has decided to revamp our reading units to better reflect the diversity of our community and to meet the values and urgency of this moment in history.

We will teach our students about freedom, responsibility, advocacy, and activism, and we will do it through our reading curriculum.

We'll discuss what it means to be proud of our identities, respect the identities of others, and to take care of each other in our community and country. In order to that, we are going to start small and look at the ways we uphold these values within our own families.

We have chosen texts that feature diverse families and family relationships. We've also chosen texts with rich characters and story arcs that give us opportunities to teach into the reading strategies and higher order thinking skills that our students need. We hope you can support our students by contributing to this project. Thank you!

Mrs. Yankovich PS 185 Locke School Arts & Design Grades PreK-2

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
Big Red Lollipop • Amazon Business $14.38 3 $43.14
Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border • Amazon Business $14.29 3 $42.87
Hair Love • Amazon Business $10.96 3 $32.88
My Footprints • Amazon Business $15.54 2 $31.08
Saturday • Amazon Business $13.59 2 $27.18
Grandmother School • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
Nana Akua Goes to School • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Floating on Mama's Song • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Dreamers • Amazon Business $14.96 1 $14.96
My Papi Has a Motorcycle • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Too Many Tamales • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
How Many Stars in the Sky? (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$315.88

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$350.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.87

Total project goal

$412.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $412.49

1 Donor

-$206.24

Donations toward project cost

-$178.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.94

match offer

-$202.73

Match offer toward project cost

-$172.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.41

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.52

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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