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Mrs. F. from Omaha, NE is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Picture Books for Middle Schoolers?! Yes!

Help me give my students diverse, inspirational biographies of people who dared to dream and succeed!

  • $323 goal

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My Students

"Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world," Nelson Mandela famously said. Help these future innovators, contributors, and leaders gain the knowledge, skills, and experiences to improve our world. My students come from neighborhoods across the Omaha metro. In our unique public school, students develop their technology, leadership, and communication skills. In our extended, year-round program, students are engaged in inquiry, STEAM, voluminous reading, and innovative instruction. Every student also participates in after-school Enrichment, where they may choose from a wide variety of extracurricular courses.

Our students are curious, creative, and committed to leading in our school and communities.

They are curious about the world and how it works. They are creative in their approaches to learning and how they use tools and technology to communicate. They demonstrate their commitment to leadership inside and outside the school by participation and service. Our students are future world-changers. They are amazing.

My Project

In my 6th grade classroom, I share a picture book with the students every day.

Think picture books are just for the littles?

No way! #classroombookaday is a nationwide movement to get delightful, informative, diverse stories to students of all ages.

Sharing over 170 complete stories with my students, that we can discuss and refer back to, has been an incredibly powerful way to model fluency, enhance listening skills, build community, and develop empathy.

Beyond the standards, my students re-learned how to enjoy a story, how to appreciate the art of picture books, how to sit back and be read to for the pure joy of hearing and sharing stories. Many of them commented that it helped them to forget the stresses of school for a few minutes every day, to calm down from whatever was happening outside our classroom and refocus.

Mrs. F. Wilson Focus 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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Omaha, NE 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

240 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up (Fighting for Justice) • Amazon Business $18.00 1 $18.00
The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just • Amazon Business $15.40 1 $15.40
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity! • Amazon Business $15.38 1 $15.38
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness • Amazon Business $15.28 1 $15.28
Where's Halmoni? • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and Mexico's Folkloric Ballet • Amazon Business $14.82 1 $14.82
Viva Frida (Morales, Yuyi) • Amazon Business $14.70 1 $14.70
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended) • Amazon Business $14.44 1 $14.44
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist • Amazon Business $13.34 1 $13.34
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.92 1 $12.92
Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender • Amazon Business $11.80 1 $11.80
Stephen Curry: The Children's Book: The Boy Who Never Gave Up • Amazon Business $11.01 1 $11.01
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98

Materials cost

$226.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $13.62

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$273.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.35

Total project goal

$322.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $322.33

6 Donors

-$160.00

Donations toward project cost

-$138.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.75

match offer

-$159.68

Match offer toward project cost

-$135.73

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.65

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 $0.00

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