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Ms. Ormsbee from Staten Island, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Seeing Myself in Diverse Books: Connecting Culture and the Classroom

Help me give my students culturally diverse books for reading and book clubs.

  • $440 goal

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My Students

Building connections between old and new knowledge helps enlighten and enhance learning. Classroom discussions help broaden my students' knowledge base about the topics and ideas we're studying. Although my students attend a Title I school, they love working together, discussing new topics, as well as making connections between what they're learning and the real world.

My students range in abilities and languages spoken--they are diverse learners who need a variety of teaching strategies to help them learn.

My students come to school eager to learn from various living situations such as single parents, foster homes, homeless shelters, or extended family living.

Despite their varying home lives, they come to school with a zest for learning.

My Project

My students come from a variety of cultural backgrounds and they love to see themselves represented in the books they read or have read aloud to them. This project is requesting diverse books to use during read aloud time, such as The Playbook, Those Shoes, Mae Among the Stars, and Brothers In Hope: The Story Of The Lost Boys Of Sudan to open up discussions encouraging inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism. Through rich book club conversations, students are able to see the perspectives of others and gain a deeper understanding of their experiences using the books: A Long Walk to Water, The Dreamer, and The Crossover.

Giving students a wide variety of books where many cultures are represented helps students see themselves within the contexts of the books thus promoting diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism.

My students are voracious readers and I know they will enjoy these new additions to our classroom!

Ms. Ormsbee PS 13 M L Lindemeyer Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Staten Island, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

65 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Crossover • AKJ Education $10.78 7 $75.46
The Dreamer • AKJ Education $6.56 7 $45.92
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story • AKJ Education $5.59 7 $39.13
The Witch of Blackbird Pond • AKJ Education $5.83 3 $17.49
When the Beat Was Born DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
The Librarian of Auschwitz • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Brothers In Hope The Story Of The Lost Boys Of Sudan • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Mae Among the Stars • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The last stop on market street • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I Have an Olive Tree • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
A Different Pond • AKJ Education $11.64 1 $11.64
The Playbook • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Dad, Jackie, and Me • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
What Elephants Know • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Color of My Words • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Those Shoes • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$338.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$373.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.93

Total project goal

$439.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $439.51

2 Donors

-$310.58

Donations toward project cost

-$297.08

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.50

match offer

-$90.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$76.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$38.93

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 $0.00

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