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Teaching Tolerance, Acceptance, and Self-Love--One Book at a Time!

My students need books to build an in-class library that will enable them to learn about tolerance, both for others and for themselves.

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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.

My Students

I teach a dedicated group of sophomores, juniors and seniors in the Watts community, who work each day to overcome the tremendous financial, social and environmental barriers that are placed in their way on a daily basis.

Anyone who has met or spent any prolonged period of time with my students will attest to how incredible they are - from their insights and their compassion, to their incredible sense of humor when life does nothing but challenge them.

They have a desire to be productive members of society, and are earnest in their efforts to make the world that we live in a better place. Teaching in an under served community comes with a myriad of challenges, from the perceived short comings of my students to the very real environmental challenges that are a cornerstone of many of their lives-- and everything in between. Contributing to a classroom library that promotes tolerance, empathy and self-empowerment will not only enable my students to be culturally and socially knowledgable citizens, it will also empower them to be agents of tolerance and change in their school, homes and community.

My Project

My students need independent reading books on a variety of topics to help foster a sense of tolerance and acceptance for themselves and others. These materials will help to create a tolerance, acceptance and empowerment themed classroom library for my 10th, 11th and 12th grade students. My hope is that my students will not only use these books to inform themselves about a variety of topics (including, but not limited to: LGBTQ issues, transgender studies, feminism, religious tolerance, genocide, mental disorders, bullying, gender equality, non-traditional families, and self-acceptance) as well as to empower themselves and those around them to become agents of tolerance, acceptance and change.

Many of my students have minimal exposure to the lived experiences of individuals outside of their immediate community, which often promotes a culture of intolerance, resentment and even hatred.

Furthermore, this lack of knowledge often causes feelings of separatism and alienation among individuals who identify with identity categories and/or experiences that are considered outside the "norms" of their community.

While these books will undoubtedly help contribute to dynamic instruction, discussion and extended learning in my classroom, my goal and vision for this project goes far beyond my classroom and the school year that my students will spend with me. The core of my teaching lies with educating critical, passionate and transformative citizens of the world. To achieve this goal, I adamantly believe that it must be rooted in tolerance, empathy and knowledge. By contributing to this project, you will aide in promoting this goal among my students for years to come.

Ms. Palioungas Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Los Angeles, CA View local requests

Nearly all 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
What Do You Stand For? For Teens: A Guide to Building Character • Amazon Business $14.56 2 $29.12
the princess saves herself in this one • Amazon Business $10.39 2 $20.78
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography • Amazon Business $9.57 2 $19.14
A Thousand Splendid Suns • Amazon Business $9.52 2 $19.04
The Complete Maus • Amazon Business $18.32 1 $18.32
Everyday Leadership: Attitudes and Actions for Respect and Success (A guidebook for teens) • Amazon Business $8.81 2 $17.62
Breaking Norms • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Bumperhead • Amazon Business $14.93 1 $14.93
52 Ways to Love Your Body • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing • Amazon Business $7.13 2 $14.26
Marble Season • Amazon Business $13.71 1 $13.71
The Complete Persepolis • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Epileptic (Pantheon Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $13.48 1 $13.48
Borrowed Bones: New Poems from the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History • Amazon Business $12.21 1 $12.21
Three Little Words: A Memoir • Amazon Business $5.99 2 $11.98
Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Vicious: True Stories by Teens About Bullying (Real Teen Voices Series) • Amazon Business $11.97 1 $11.97
Prozac Nation • Amazon Business $11.67 1 $11.67
Bang • Amazon Business $11.62 1 $11.62
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen • Amazon Business $11.61 1 $11.61
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row • Amazon Business $5.54 2 $11.08
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
The Hate U Give • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.) • Amazon Business $10.64 1 $10.64
The ABC's of LGBT+ • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
The Kite Runner • Amazon Business $10.02 1 $10.02
Speak • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98
Words Wound: Delete Cyberbullying and Make Kindness Go Viral • Amazon Business $9.96 1 $9.96
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World • Amazon Business $9.94 1 $9.94
White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club) • Amazon Business $9.28 1 $9.28
The Last Time I Wore A Dress • Amazon Business $9.20 1 $9.20
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama • Amazon Business $9.05 1 $9.05
The Namesake: A Novel • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Elena Vanishing: A Memoir • Amazon Business $8.70 1 $8.70
For Teenage Girls With Wild Ambitions and Trembling Hearts • Amazon Business $8.24 1 $8.24
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $8.16 1 $8.16
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Road From Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival and Hope • Amazon Business $3.91 2 $7.82
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95

Materials cost

$508.46

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $46.52

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$592.61

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$104.58

Total project goal

$697.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $697.19

6 Donors

-$347.71

Donations toward project cost

-$297.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.66

match offer

-$347.72

Match offer toward project cost

-$295.56

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.16

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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