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Mr. Miller from Bronx, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Representation and Heroes: Culturally Relevant Role Models for Students

Help me give my students books with heroes that look like they them!

  • $315 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

This project can be seen as a response to two glaring truths. The first is that, as a result of the COVID-19 and pre-existing inequality within the education system, immense quantities our scholars are reading below grade level. The second is that research in education has repeatedly shown that scholars are more likely to comprehend and engage with texts that are culturally relevant to their lives.

In order to promote literacy, we are seeking to acquire a number of texts that feature heroes that represent the communities of our students.

Too often, students lack access to texts that have role models they can relate to, and nowhere is this more true than in public education, which often features literary classics that, due to their dated status, often lack people of color as central characters with agency. For this reason, the texts selected all feature protagonists that represent my students' communities. By helping to donate to this campaign, you will be allowing young men of color in the Bronx to envision worlds in which they too can be the hero.

Mr. Miller
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Black Panther: The Man Without Fear - The Complete Collection • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) • Amazon Business $27.49 1 $27.49
Far Sector • Amazon Business $26.99 1 $26.99
Displacement • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
The Shadow Hero • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers & Sisters • Amazon Business $15.25 1 $15.25
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The United States of Captain America • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
New Super-Man and the Justice League China (New Super-Man and the Justice League of China) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 2: Shang-Chi vs. the Marvel Universe • Amazon Business $14.87 1 $14.87
Rise of the Black Panther • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Superman Smashes the Klan • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69

Materials cost

$233.71

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$267.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$47.16

Total project goal

$314.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $314.38

6 Donors

-$309.96

Donations toward project cost

-$267.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.42

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