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Mrs. Walker from Snellville, GA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making Books Connect to My Students

Help me give my students books about people who look like them.

  • $373 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Project

When teachers select texts that are far from their students’ experiences, we add multiple invisible hurdles to learning. Overly complex language stymies early academic growth while literary experiences that uniformly neglect my students’ perspectives condition them to perceive their point of view as inherently less valuable than those illustrated in the text. When texts, like the ones I've chosen for this project, relate to my students’ lives, they are able to access literary analysis and research-based writing faster, in the process also learning that their lives and communities are legitimate sources of wisdom.

I love teaching exceptional children how to learn by using their abilities and connecting their learning to the real world.

There is a real shortage of teachers and teacher burnout. I made a career change and am in the process of completing a MA in SpEd General. Student loans and other expenses will prevent me from obtaining interesting products to help my students. I want them to have the best opportunity to learn.

Mrs. Walker
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Crossover Series 3-Book Paperback Box Set: The Crossover, Booked, Rebound • MahoganyBooks $25.19 2 $50.38
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) • MahoganyBooks $44.99 1 $44.99
Blackout • MahoganyBooks $17.99 1 $17.99
Becoming • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Fast Pitch • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Black Boy Joy • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
This is Your Time • MahoganyBooks $14.39 1 $14.39
Class Act • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
New Kid • MahoganyBooks $11.69 1 $11.69
The Voting Booth • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Concrete Kids • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Life in Motion: Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Good Kind of Trouble, A • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
The Only Black Girls in Town • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19

Materials cost

$264.43

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$18.25

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$316.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.88

Total project goal

$372.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$372.53

2 Donors

-$173.33

Donations toward project cost

-$158.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

match offer

-$186.26

Match offer toward project cost

-$158.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.94

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$0.00

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