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Mrs. Dorcemus from Bronx, NY is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Teacher Wants to Learn Too!

Teacher Professional Development: I need books to help me grow as an educator. <profdevpilot>

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My Students

My school is in a low income neighborhood and is a supportive work environment for me to grow as a teacher.

I came into teaching from an alternate background through the New York City Teaching Fellows and was trained over one summer and then entered the classroom.

I work in a middle school in the Bronx and have spent the last 3 years at this school learning and growing as an educator.

My Project

I am requesting books for myself to learn more about teaching. One of the things we learn in teacher training is to stop re-inventing the wheel and to learn from others who are doing great things already in education. I am requesting top books about education, educational strategies, and educational research so that I can have a library of books that I can turn to. These books would help me learn how to be a better teacher but also inspire me when I need new ideas to keep myself motivated to grow.

These resources will make a difference ultimately for my students because it will be increasing the knowledge of their teacher.

Teachers who have a larger tool kit of resources, strategies, and ideas are better able to not only teach but also to adapt to different learning and behavioral needs of the students.

Mrs. Dorcemus Baychester Middle School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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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
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Teaching Science for Understanding: A Practical Guide for Middle and High School Teachers • Amazon $51.31 1 $51.31
Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance • Amazon $41.10 1 $41.10
When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12 • Amazon $38.45 1 $38.45
Subjects Matter, Second Edition: Exceeding Standards Through Powerful Content-Area Reading • Amazon $35.02 1 $35.02
Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice: Conversations with Educators • Amazon $33.26 1 $33.26
Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement • Amazon $29.33 1 $29.33
What Great Teachers Do Differently, 2nd Ed: 17 Things That Matter Most • Amazon $28.45 1 $28.45
How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom (National Research Council) • Amazon $28.28 1 $28.28
Mosaic of Thought: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction, 2nd Edition • Amazon $27.80 1 $27.80
Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture • Amazon $27.33 1 $27.33
The Morning Meeting Book • Amazon $22.80 1 $22.80
Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator • Amazon $19.92 1 $19.92
The Education of a Lifetime • Amazon $19.16 1 $19.16
The Last Lecture • Amazon $17.67 1 $17.67
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity • Amazon $17.33 1 $17.33
The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System • Amazon $16.87 1 $16.87
Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age • Amazon $16.57 1 $16.57
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers • Amazon $14.30 1 $14.30
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined • Amazon $13.88 1 $13.88
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know • Amazon $13.61 1 $13.61
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World • Amazon $13.60 1 $13.60
Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids: (and the rest of your class, too!) • Amazon $13.45 1 $13.45
Five Minds for the Future • Amazon $13.43 1 $13.43
The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew • Amazon $12.98 1 $12.98
Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math • Amazon $12.97 1 $12.97
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking • Amazon $12.94 1 $12.94
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't • Amazon $12.63 1 $12.63
Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World? • Amazon $12.61 1 $12.61
The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children • Amazon $12.46 1 $12.46
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, Revised Edition • Amazon $11.86 1 $11.86
The End of Your Life Book Club • Amazon $11.78 1 $11.78
Hello! My Name is Public School, and I Have an Image Problem • Amazon $11.66 1 $11.66
Teacher Under Construction: Things I Wish I'd Known!: A Survival Handbook for New Middle School Teachers • Amazon $11.66 1 $11.66
Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning • Amazon $11.46 1 $11.46
Letters to a Young Scientist • Amazon $11.31 1 $11.31
Inside Mrs. B.'s Classroom : Courage, Hope, and Learning on Chicago's South Side • Amazon $11.00 1 $11.00
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed • Amazon $10.96 1 $10.96
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data • Amazon $10.72 1 $10.72
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools • Amazon $10.72 1 $10.72
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way • Amazon $10.11 1 $10.11
Common Core Science 4 Today, Grade 5: Daily Skill Practice (Common Core 4 Today) • Amazon $9.83 1 $9.83
Common Core Language Arts 4 Today, Grade 5: Daily Skill Practice (Common Core 4 Today) • Amazon $9.63 1 $9.63
Common Core Math 4 Today, Grade 5 (Common Core 4 Today) • Amazon $9.25 1 $9.25
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children • Amazon $9.23 1 $9.23
Thinking, Fast and Slow • Amazon $8.30 1 $8.30

Materials cost

$798.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$840.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.41

Total project goal

$989.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $989.38

1 Donor

-$49.00

Donations toward project cost

-$41.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.35

Matching donations from our partners

-$940.38

Match offers toward project cost

-$799.32

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$141.06

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