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Mrs. Reyes from Miami, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Teaching Tolerance: Open a Book, Open a Mind

Help me give my students culturally diverse books. The books in our media center are old and outdated. The students in my school need to read contemporary and inclusive works of literature.

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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

Our school is a 100% magnet school, and is very competitive. The students who come here have worked extremely hard to be accepted. They are some of the best and brightest students in the county, and are the students who will be the leaders of tomorrow.

In order to become global citizens who understand the world they are going to inherit and lead, students need to learn to appreciate diversity and embrace differences.

They need to be exposed to the history, literature, and cultures of different countries in our ever-shrinking world. They should have access to literature about characters that are not exactly the same as them so they can learn to see things from someone else's perspective. Opening the right book can help someone change how, and what, they see.

My Project

My students need culturally-diverse books for several reasons. Primarily, to be able to see themselves in the characters of the books. Secondly, to help them develop empathy and an understanding of marginalized groups they may not have first-hand knowledge about. And lastly, to understand that the world is much bigger than what immediately surrounds them.

Reading a variety of books can open minds, and teach students to value and respect each others differences.

The books in our media center are outdated, and our students deserve to have modern books that will expose them to what life is like for their fellow global citizens.

Mrs. Reyes Mast Academy Grades 9-12

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Miami, FL View local requests 800 students impacted 3donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Booked • AKJ Education $21.46 1 $21.46
Getting Away with Murder The True Story of the Emmett Till Case • AKJ Education $19.79 1 $19.79
Let Me Play The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America • AKJ Education $18.24 1 $18.24
Solo • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
The Librarian of Auschwitz • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Under the Mesquite • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
Out of Darkness • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Stella by Starlight • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Salt to the Sea • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
More Happy Than Not • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Freedom Summer The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Amal Unbound • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I'll Give You the Sun • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The 57 Bus • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
She Persisted • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Becoming Maria Love and Chaos in the South Bronx • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
We Say #NeverAgain • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Harbor Me • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Only Road • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Openly Straight • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Girl Mans Up • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Beneath My Mother's Feet • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Dollmaker of Krakow • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Finding Langston • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
What Would She Do? 25 True Stories of Trailblazing Rebel Women • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
X: A Novel • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Lost Boy, Lost Girl Escaping Civil War in Sudan • AKJ Education $11.64 1 $11.64
The Playbook • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Wonder • AKJ Education $9.99 1 $9.99
The Crossover • AKJ Education $9.38 1 $9.38

Materials cost

$499.07

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$536.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.69

Total project goal

$631.25

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $631.25

2 Donors

-$431.00

Donations toward project cost

-$366.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.65

match offer

-$200.25

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.21

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.04

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