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Ms. A. from Portland, OR is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Learning to Use Children's Books to Build Empathy

I need children's books that widen the single story of South Africa that will be used in a professional development session with 9th grade teachers on building empathy through accessible texts.

  • $179 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

My colleagues and I have a professional development opportunity to help us see how picture books can be used in high school to build empathy in a Global Studies classroom. We hope to use these titles in our own professional development in showing teachers how we can use children's books to widen single stories and stereotypes. We want to show teachers how we can then use these children's books as models with students to write their own and then hopefully share their own stories with students at our elementary feeder schools.

Ms. A.
Grades 9-12

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hector: A Boy, A Protest, and the Photograph that Changed Apartheid • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
The Soccer Fence: A story of friendship, hope, and apartheid in South Africa • Amazon Business $17.45 1 $17.45
Long Walk to Freedom • Amazon Business $16.85 1 $16.85
Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
Desmond and the Very Mean Word • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
The Herd Boy • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Day Gogo Went to Vote • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
At the Crossroads (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Goal! • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$120.22

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$152.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.83

Total project goal

$178.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $178.85

1 Donor

-$89.42

Donations toward project cost

-$76.01

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.41

match offer

-$89.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$76.01

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.41

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