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Ms. Jessica from Whittier, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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I See Me! Deaf Representation in Children's Books

Help me give my students an inclusive library! Our Deaf and hard-of-hearing students deserve to read books with characters who look, hear, and communicate just like them. Representation matters!

  • 20 donors
  • $863 goal

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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 Project

A fully funded project will put books featuring Deaf, deaf, and hard of hearing characters into "every" or "all 18" classrooms on campus. Our campus is a traditional school with three special classrooms for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Not only will these books come into the D/HH students' classrooms, but also into the school library and classrooms of their typically hearing peers to increase awareness, sensitivity, and community campus-wide.

We have carefully selected books that represent the spectrum of communication from sign language to spoken language, hearing aids, cochlear implants, and bone-anchored hearing devices.

We have chosen books that focus on understanding hearing loss and the D/deaf experience, and also books with good stories that happen to have a D/deaf character- because Deaf and Hard of Hearing students should know that their hearing status does not necessarily define them. They can achieve all they desire out of life, and belong in every community.

Ms. Jessica Lydia Jackson Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Whittier, CA View local requests

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

300 students impacted 20donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Questioneers Chapter Book Collection (Books 1-6) • Amazon Business $54.14 1 $54.14
Marvelous Mary: Deaf with Cochlear Implants • Amazon Business $32.79 1 $32.79
C.I. Quest: a tale of cochlear implants lost and found on the farm (the young farmer has hearing loss), told through rhyming verse packed with ... sounds for early learners (Farmyard Heroes) • Amazon Business $13.50 2 $27.00
No Excuses: Growing Up Deaf and Achieving My Super Bowl Dreams • Amazon Business $24.79 1 $24.79
She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Mila Gets Her Super Ears • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust • Amazon Business $16.53 1 $16.53
So Much More to Helen: The Passions and Pursuits of Helen Keller • Amazon Business $15.53 1 $15.53
Now Hear This: Harper soars with her magic ears • Amazon Business $15.40 1 $15.40
Maxi's Super Ears • Amazon Business $15.00 1 $15.00
Ollie Otter Gets a Cochlear Implant (Just An Otter Day) • Amazon Business $14.97 1 $14.97
Smelly Hearing Aids and Fishy Lips: A deaf teenager's journal • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Hello, Universe: A Newbery Award Winner • Amazon Business $6.89 2 $13.78
Super Kena: A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Shayla Boo and You: All About My Hearing Book • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Ada and the Helpers • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Listening to the Quiet • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
A Girl like Ananya: The true life story of an inspirational girl who is deaf and wears cochlear implants • Amazon Business $12.50 1 $12.50
My Deaf Friend Can Do Anything You Can Do • Amazon Business $12.24 1 $12.24
Gracie's Ears • Amazon Business $11.94 1 $11.94
The Night The Moon Went Missing • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Dachy's Deaf (Dinosaur Friends) • Amazon Business $11.50 1 $11.50
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion • Amazon Business $11.43 1 $11.43
Freddie and the Fairy (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 346) • Amazon Business $11.35 1 $11.35
Can Bears Ski? • Amazon Business $10.90 1 $10.90
Show Me a Sign (Show Me a Sign, Book 1) • Amazon Business $10.65 1 $10.65
Diary of a Hard of Hearing Kid • Amazon Business $10.00 1 $10.00
Sky, the Deaf Home Run Hero: A Lesson in Courage (Deaf Kids Can) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Sound Switch Wonder • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL VOL. 1: SQUIRREL POWER (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, 1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Proud to be Deaf • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Outside In • Amazon Business $9.92 1 $9.92
El Deafo: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $9.37 1 $9.37
Princess Lizzie Wears Hearing Aids • Amazon Business $9.30 1 $9.30
The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Dad, Jackie, and Me • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Deaf Child Crossing • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
deaf not Deaf • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Charlie and Frog (Charlie and Frog, 1) • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
Astrid the Astronaut - The Astronomically Grand Plan - Hardcover Book • AKJ Education $8.22 1 $8.22
Nobody's Perfect • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Dad and Me in the Morning • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Left Out - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller (A Big Words Book, 6) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! (Scholastic Gold) - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Song for a Whale - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Friendship Goals (Emma Every Day) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Emma Every Day - The Writing Contest - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Book 1: Sword of Summer, The-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Book 1 • Amazon Business $5.66 1 $5.66
The Story of My Life - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34

Materials cost

$635.29

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $58.13

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$732.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$129.34

Total project goal

$862.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $862.29

18 Donors

-$643.36

Donations toward project cost

-$555.86

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$87.50

Matching donations from our partners

-$208.34

Match offers toward project cost

-$177.09

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.59

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