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Help Teens Challenge Racism and the School to Prison Pipeline

Help me give my students resources to learn the history of the school to prison pipeline and the impact of the privatization of prisons. Help them to become the change makers who challenge the unjust system.

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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

We are a low-income but highly spirited high school. The 400 students are almost 100% Black and Hispanic, with a few Middle Eastern and a few Asian students.

These Gen Z students are motivated and ready to become change makers as soon as we teach them how to create specific goals and how to work toward reaching them through research and active civic engagement!

Although this library is being created for a new AP Criminal Justice course that will be co-taught by me and a Howard University professor, these resources will be available for use by all students in the school.

My Project

The first goal of this school to prison pipeline library is to provide our high school students with an in depth understanding of how the justice system has been created to keep communities of color oppressed. The students will be invited and encouraged to use these resources to participate in conversations about the history of oppression and how the prison system was created to mirror the systems of slavery and cash cropping. The conversations will include a focus on the privatization of prisons and how they, as consumers, have the power to impact those businesses that economically benefit from exploited prison labor.

After the students gain an understanding of how and why the racist criminal justice system is designed the way it is, they will use the remaining resources to learn how to develop challenges to the racist system and how to make their voices and demands heard.

Learning these skills are especially important because today's high school students have the power and the passion to become true change makers!

Ms. Lisa Global Learning Collaborative Grades 9-12

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition, Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice • Amazon Business $9.89 30 $296.70
Punching the Air • Amazon Business $15.99 10 $159.90
Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline (The Teaching for Social Justice Series) • Amazon Business $30.95 4 $123.80
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling • Amazon Business $12.79 9 $115.11
Caught Up (Gender and Justice) • Amazon Business $26.99 4 $107.96
Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline (The Teaching for Social Justice Series) • Amazon Business $30.95 3 $92.85
The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words: Selected Letters, 1931-1950 • Amazon Business $29.95 3 $89.85
Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons (Voice of Witness) • Amazon Business $14.59 5 $72.95
Teen Incarceration: From Cell Bars to Ankle Bracelets • Amazon Business $23.88 3 $71.64
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration • Amazon Business $16.00 4 $64.00
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness • Amazon Business $21.01 3 $63.03
Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America • Amazon Business $18.72 3 $56.16
Promises and Possibilities: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline • Amazon Business $13.99 4 $55.96
The Learning Curve: Creating a Cultural Framework to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline • Amazon Business $12.99 4 $51.96
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards (Racism in American Institutions) • Amazon Business $48.00 1 $48.00
Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners • Amazon Business $15.95 3 $47.85
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series) • Amazon Business $23.33 2 $46.66
Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline (The Teaching for Social Justice Series) • Amazon Business $45.50 1 $45.50
If I Could: Lessons for Navigating An Unjust World • Amazon Business $14.99 3 $44.97
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Comprehensive Assessment • Amazon Business $44.23 1 $44.23
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law) • Amazon Business $21.99 2 $43.98
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing • Amazon Business $14.63 3 $43.89
The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Structuring Legal Reform • Amazon Business $42.99 1 $42.99
Prelude to Prison: Student Perspectives on School Suspension (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution) • Amazon Business $42.71 1 $42.71
From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Counterpoints) • Amazon Business $41.95 1 $41.95
Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime and Justice) • Amazon Business $37.85 1 $37.85
What Will Happen to Me: Every Night, Approximately Three Million Children Go To Bed With A Parent In Pri • Amazon Business $11.99 3 $35.97
The Little Voice • Amazon Business $8.99 4 $35.96
Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change • Amazon Business $35.47 1 $35.47
Making Choices: A book of Moral Dilemmas for Someone in Jail or Prison • Amazon Business $6.95 5 $34.75
Closing the School Discipline Gap: Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion (Disability, Culture, and Equity Series) • Amazon Business $34.15 1 $34.15
CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action • Amazon Business $32.05 1 $32.05
Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline (HER Reprint Series) • Amazon Business $31.95 1 $31.95
Street Life: Poverty, Gangs, and a Ph.D. • Amazon Business $15.00 2 $30.00
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform • Amazon Business $30.00 1 $30.00
The Scottsboro Boys (Freedom's Promise) • Amazon Business $9.95 3 $29.85
Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law) • Amazon Business $29.00 1 $29.00
Who Gets a Childhood?: Race and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century Texas (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Ser.) • Amazon Business $28.46 1 $28.46
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools • Amazon Business $14.05 2 $28.10
The War on Kids: How American Juvenile Justice Lost Its Way • Amazon Business $27.95 1 $27.95
Caught Up (Gender and Justice) • Amazon Business $26.99 1 $26.99
For-Profit Prisons (History of Crime and Punishment) • Amazon Business $26.54 1 $26.54
Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear (Youth, Crime, and Justice) • Amazon Business $26.00 1 $26.00
Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
Reflective Discipline: Reducing Racial Disparity in Referrals and Suspensions • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters • Amazon Business $24.93 1 $24.93
Rethinking Juvenile Justice • Amazon Business $23.50 1 $23.50
Police in the Hallways • Amazon Business $22.95 1 $22.95
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform • Amazon Business $22.38 1 $22.38
Bodies in Beds: Why Business Should Out of Prisons • Amazon Business $21.95 1 $21.95
Fugitive Thought • Amazon Business $21.60 1 $21.60
Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
Jim Crow On Trial: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Case of the Scottsboro Boys • Amazon Business $6.99 3 $20.97
Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools :A Handbook for Parents, Students, Educators, and Citizens • Amazon Business $20.95 1 $20.95
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream • Amazon Business $10.29 2 $20.58
Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal • Amazon Business $19.89 1 $19.89
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools • Amazon Business $19.51 1 $19.51
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States • Amazon Business $18.08 1 $18.08
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America • Amazon Business $17.55 1 $17.55
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration • Amazon Business $16.64 1 $16.64
Are Prisons Obsolete? • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated • Amazon Business $15.25 1 $15.25
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores • Amazon Business $15.22 1 $15.22
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success • Amazon Business $7.59 2 $15.18
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness • Amazon Business $15.00 1 $15.00
What Will Happen to Me: Every Night, Approximately Three Million Children Go To Bed With A Parent In Pri • Amazon Business $14.65 1 $14.65
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Prison Writings in 20th Century America • Amazon Business $14.09 1 $14.09
Elementary Genocide • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Elementary Genocide 3 • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Elementary Genocide 2 • Amazon Business $13.98 1 $13.98
The Learning Curve: Creating a Cultural Framework to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth • Amazon Business $12.08 1 $12.08
Letters to My Younger Self: An Anthology of Writings by Incarcerated Men at S.C.I. Graterford and a Writing Workbook • Amazon Business $10.00 1 $10.00
The Downfall of American Corrections: How Privatization, Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, and the Abandonment of Rehabilitation have Perverted the System beyond Repair • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Five Steps to Avoid the School to Prison Pipeline (2nd Edition): Student Workbook for Schools • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Five Steps to Avoid the School to Prison Pipeline: Excellent usage for Restorative Practice Circle discussions • Amazon Business $4.06 1 $4.06

Materials cost

$3,166.19

Vendor shipping charges

 $19.95

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$47.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$3,263.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$575.93

Total project goal

$3,839.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $3,839.56

8 Donors

-$3,821.92

Donations toward project cost

-$3,263.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$558.29

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

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