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Mrs. Swigut from Somerville, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Diverse Book Project: A Student Led Initiative

Help me give my students books for our library that represent our school's diversity.

  • $436 goal

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My Project

I teach 4th grade in an urban elementary school. My students are inquisitive, smart, and thoughtful! This year, I led them in a project where they learned about "windows and mirrors" - the idea that students should see their own identities in books AND books should be a window into other people's experiences. After we "audited" our school library, students discovered that we are in need of more diverse books! In the words of my students:

"If you don't see yourself in books, you might feel invisible." Isaac D.

"Our project is trying to get more books of identities that we don't see enough. This is including LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, people from other countries and different races. We are doing this project because we don’t want kids who, for example, are in a wheelchair. We don’t want them to feel like there’s nobody they can relate to. We want kids to see people like them, but also we want people to see that everybody is not the same. This project is trying to get people to know there's a bigger world out there." Corrina A.

Mrs. Swigut
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Red Pencil • AKJ Education $21.17 1 $21.17
Chocolate Me! • AKJ Education $17.09 1 $17.09
Mixed Me! • AKJ Education $16.19 1 $16.19
10,000 Dresses • AKJ Education $15.26 1 $15.26
When Aidan Became a Brother • AKJ Education $14.56 1 $14.56
The Case for Loving • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Dreamers • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
I Am Enough • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Marisol McDonald no combina (Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match) • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Under My Hijab • AKJ Education $13.83 1 $13.83
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I Am Every Good Thing • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Where Are You From? • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Just Ask! • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Hair Love • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Proudest Blue • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Emmanuel's Dream • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
A Different Pond • AKJ Education $11.64 1 $11.64
El Deafo • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
Out of My Mind • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99
My Name Is Yoon • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Two Homes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Un día de nieve (The Snowy Day) • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Rules • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Lily and Dunkin • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Whoever You Are • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Happy Like Soccer • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$328.93

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$369.86

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.27

Total project goal

$435.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $435.13

4 Donors

-$424.84

Donations toward project cost

-$369.86

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$54.98

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.29

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