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Ms. Carrie from Saint Paul, MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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LGBTQ+ Books for GSA Book Clubs

Help me give my students books to read at home for GSA book clubs during Distance Learning.

  • $400 goal

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Ms. Carrie has another project! Donate to Library Books to Represent Students' Home Countries to help her classroom.

All donations currently doubled!
You can complete this project for $113.
2X

My Students

Our middle school Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) is a diverse group of thinkers and learners who come together in the spirit of learning about themselves, their community, and LGBTQ+ issues. We are a public, urban Montessori middle school, located in a historically diverse and low-income community. Seventy-seven percent of our students receive free or reduced-price lunch.

Our students are committed to creating a safe space for LGBTQ+ students and their allies.

They crave the knowledge they need to give voice to their needs and to empower those who feel unseen and unheard. They are eager to take what they learn in the GSA to the greater community.

My Project

Reading can open a students’ eyes to worlds and perspectives outside of their own experience. Books can also be reflective, helping them to see their own lives better and therefore create more self-understanding. Moreover, during Distance Learning, more than ever, discussing books can give students a much needed form of connection with their like-minded peers. Books can create a sense of community that is absent in their regular classes and for which they long.

Our middle school Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) needs sets of books to read together this year.

These books will go directly to students at home. Through these books we will create and reinforce the safe space that LBBTQ+ students and their allies have come to depend on, even while being away from school. We will read them together to engage in conversations, learn about ourselves and the LGBTQ+ community, and share our newfound understanding with our larger school community.

Ms. Carrie Parkway Montessori Middle School Grades 6-8

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
The New Queer Conscience (Pocket Change Collective) • Amazon Business $8.99 20 $179.80
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World • Amazon Business $6.99 10 $69.90
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda • Amazon Business $5.49 10 $54.90

Materials cost

$304.60

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$339.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.85

Total project goal

$399.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $399.02

6 Donors

-$199.50

Donations toward project cost

-$169.58

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.92

match offer

-$199.52

Match offer toward project cost

-$169.59

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.93

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 $0.00

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