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Ms. M. from Nashville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Literature in a Diverse Population

My students need books that they can relate to. Most of my students are non-white students, while the majority of literature is about white people. They need books that they can see themselves in!

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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

My students come from low income families, and most of them come from families that do not speak English.

Every child in my room has the desire to learn.

My school is in the process of becoming a STEAM school. STEAM schools focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics.

Most of my students are non-white, while most of the people they see represented in literature are white. I have had students tell me that college and the careers they hear about are not “for them.” I want to change this representation for my students!

My Project

I work in a school that has a large Latinx population, and our diversity is going to be increasing largely in the next few years. Unfortunately, the majority of literature out there is largely about white men. It makes it difficult when my non-white students and my female students read these books and are unable to place themselves into the story, or see themselves accomplishing the things that the white men in the books are accomplishing.

We are starting an entrepreneurship focus at my school, and I want my girls and non-white students to also see themselves as being able to be entrepreneurs and leaders in the community.

My goal is to expand my classroom library to include books about famous leaders that they can relate to, as well as fiction books with main characters that look like them.

There have been times where my students ears perk up at the start of a read aloud, and they yell out "I call my grandma Abuela, too!," or "My last name is Martinez, too!" This is what I love to hear, and want my students to have more access to books like this in our classroom every day.

Ms. M. Glencliff Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Nashville, TN View local requests 45 students impacted 15donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and Mexico's Folkloric Ballet • Amazon Business $15.45 1 $15.45
Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers • Amazon Business $15.23 1 $15.23
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) • Amazon Business $14.42 1 $14.42
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko • Amazon Business $13.64 1 $13.64
She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $13.10 1 $13.10
Islandborn • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $12.36 1 $12.36
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.35 1 $12.35
I am Amelia Earhart (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $12.31 1 $12.31
I am Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
I am Gandhi (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
La Princesa and the Pea • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Lucia the Luchadora • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History • Amazon Business $11.68 1 $11.68
I am Sacagawea (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $11.38 1 $11.38
Chocolate Milk, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
I am Helen Keller (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $10.75 1 $10.75
I am Rosa Parks (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $10.43 1 $10.43
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $10.32 1 $10.32
I am Jackie Robinson (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $10.28 1 $10.28
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! (City Lights/Sister Spit) • Amazon Business $10.28 1 $10.28
I am Lucille Ball (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
I am Harriet Tubman (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $9.47 1 $9.47
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story • Amazon Business $9.27 1 $9.27
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $9.14 1 $9.14
My Nana and Me • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Maya Angelou (Little People, Big Dreams) • Amazon Business $8.80 1 $8.80
Marie Curie (Little People, Big Dreams) • Amazon Business $8.21 1 $8.21
Rapunzel (Once Upon a World) • Amazon Business $8.09 1 $8.09
The Princess and the Pea (Once Upon a World) • Amazon Business $8.09 1 $8.09
Mango, Abuela, and Me • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Snow White (Once Upon a World) • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Cinderella (Once Upon a World) • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
What Can You Do with a Paleta / ¿Qué Puedes Hacer con una Paleta? • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Niño Wrestles the World • Amazon Business $7.10 1 $7.10
The House on Mango Street • Amazon Business $7.09 1 $7.09
Rudas: Niño's Horrendous Hermanitas • Amazon Business $6.81 1 $6.81
Abuela (English Edition with Spanish Phrases) (Picture Puffins) • Amazon Business $6.57 1 $6.57
Frida Kahlo (Little People, Big Dreams) • Amazon Business $6.35 1 $6.35
The Life of /La Vida De Selena: A Lil' Libros Bilingual Biography (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred • Amazon Business $5.78 1 $5.78
Freddie Ramos Stomps the Snow (Zapato Power) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Freddie Ramos Makes a Splash (Zapato Power) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Freddie Ramos Takes Off (Zapato Power) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Freddie Ramos Rules New York (Zapato Power) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Freddie Ramos Springs Into Action (Zapato Power) • Amazon Business $3.97 1 $3.97
Freddie Ramos Zooms to the Rescue (Zapato Power) • Amazon Business $3.81 1 $3.81

Materials cost

$479.82

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$517.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.24

Total project goal

$608.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $608.26

14 Donors

-$573.32

Donations toward project cost

-$517.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$34.94

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