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Ms. Kelley Wolcott from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Student-led project

South Brooklyn Freedom Readers

Help us get new and high interest books for under resourced urban classrooms, to help kids enjoy reading!

  • $251 goal

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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.

About My Students

My students attend an alternative high school in Brooklyn, NY who have struggled in more traditional settings and have had a range of life challenges. Our students are resilient, diligent, and caring for their community. They are currently participating in a Service Learning experience that helps teach them to launch projects that improve their communities based on the needs that they have identified. They are currently serving as Reading Buddies at a local elementary school to help Kindergarteners and first graders learn how to read using picture books they get weekly from our local public library.

The elementary school they are working with has many low-income students and struggles with funding from the state. While on their weekly visits, they noticed that their buddies had very few and damaged books in their classroom library. They noticed that this library was unsuitable for the students in the class that has Special Needs and are beginning readers. For that reason, they want to make the final part of their service project leaving their reading buddies with new books for their classroom library. With the hope to keep their reading buddy's passion for reading alive after our service is complete.

This project has helped my students to develop resume building "real world skills" that will help them in any college or workplace. They have cultivated strong interpersonal and professional communication skills. They have learned how to use local resources and collaborate with multiple community organizations to acquire as many resources as possible for their reading buddies to achieve and connect them with books they will love. They have learned "soft skills" by working with their buddies, some of which have severe disabilities with patience and kindness. Finally, they have done a phenomenal job learning how to launch a successful fundraising campaign while performing service. They have worked beautifully as a classroom community to help their buddies learn how to read, while trying to help fill the financial/literacy gap in the school which is the byproduct of historical underfunding.

In Their Own Words

The goal we are trying to accomplish with this project is to get the reading buddies we have been working with, excited about reading. Reading is an amazing thing that should be enjoyed by everyone, even the kids that are just embarking on their reading journeys and we are doing this by giving them books that we're sure they will love.

We will make the most of the leadership opportunity involved in creating this project because we are learning the steps that it takes to create things that will give back to our community and others around us. Through our project, we have also brought together community organizations, like the community library and the elementary school in the neighborhood.

This project is important to us and our school community because it helps us connect with the youth and help our community. A problem or challenge that we are addressing is the lack of resources in the students' classroom and helping students love reading in their early experiences so they develop a more positive attitude towards reading as they move to higher grades.

Ms. Kelley Wolcott South Brooklyn Community High School Grades 9-12

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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Brooklyn, 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pete the Cat (6 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $50.84 1 $50.84
Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected Diversion • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Knuffle Bunny Too A Case of Mistaken Identity • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Good Night Owl • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Don't Push the Button! • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
How Santa Lost His Job • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Five Little Monkeys Play Hide and Seek • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Clifford's Good Deeds • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
A Trip to the Zoo • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
Clifford's Christmas • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
Clifford Takes a Trip • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
Clifford's Manners • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
Clifford's Spring Clean-Up • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed • AKJ Education $3.11 1 $3.11
Pooh's Christmas Sled Ride • AKJ Education $1.00 1 $1.00
Santasaurus • AKJ Education $1.00 1 $1.00
Not Enough Beds! • AKJ Education $1.00 1 $1.00

Materials cost

$179.86

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$212.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.51

Total project goal

$250.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $250.07

9 Donors

-$245.66

Donations toward project cost

-$212.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.10

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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 $0.00

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