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Ms. Courtney from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Students Deserve Representative Books!

Help me give my students children's books featuring children of color within a variety of family structures!

  • $174 goal

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Help Ms. Courtney

Ms. Courtney has another project! Donate to Bringing the Summer into School! to help her classroom.

$178 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students are creative thinkers, problem-solvers, dreamers, and achievers. They are curious about learning, and they show incredible wonder about everyday experiences that we take for granted. They are eager to learn and to explore the world around them.

In our classroom, we work to show each child a deep respect for them as an individual.

My students have their own ideas, concerns, questions, thoughts, dreams, beliefs, and more. Children at this age are learning about who they are as people, and how they as people fit into larger systems such as family, school, community, and humanity. Each child comes from an individual family, with individual belief systems, customs, and values. My students come from a variety of diverse backgrounds, bringing their traditions, cultures, and values into our classroom, teaching all of us about themselves.

My students are teachers. I am constantly learning through them. They teach me about the names of a variety of bugs, the height of the tallest building in the world, and how the planets revolve around the sun due to gravity. They will continue to teach me even after they have left my classroom. I'm so lucky I get to be their teacher!

My Project

The recent events surrounding the brutal murder of George Floyd displayed so graphically the need for meaningful instruction on racism in every American (and world-wide) classroom. A part of this mission is to include as many children's books featuring BIPOC children engaging in everyday experiences in the classroom. As a white teacher especially, I am working to include as many beautiful children's books featuring BIPOC children and a variety of their family structures as are available, and I do not have nearly as many as I should.

This project will provide a deep variety of beautiful children's books featuring BIPOC children and families engaging in wonderful stories of everyday experience.

Children deserve to read books featuring children of color that are not just about "diversity," but joy, fear, curiosity, and so much more! By supporting this project, you will be providing my students with beautiful stories representative of their own experiences and featuring children that look like them, a gift that all children deserve. Thank you so much from your support of my students during these transformative times!

Ms. Courtney Elysian Heights Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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Los Angeles, CA View local requests

More than a third 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

24 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Skies Above My Eyes (Look Closer) • Amazon Business $18.44 1 $18.44
Birdsong • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Dreamers • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
The Day War Came • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Papa, Daddy, and Riley • Amazon Business $12.94 1 $12.94
Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
The Journey • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Grandpa's Stories • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$106.52

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$9.75

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$147.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.09

Total project goal

$173.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$173.96

3 Donors

-$86.97

Donations toward project cost

-$73.93

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.04

match offer

-$86.99

Match offer toward project cost

-$73.94

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.05

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$0.00

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