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Mr. Kyle from Bronx, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Trailblazing Book Clubs

My students need books such as Just Jake and The Wednesday Wars; in order to participate in our Social Issues Book Club unit in reading workshop.

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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

As the school year starts, the media is full of stories about the growing role of technology in education. Although I embrace technology in my own teaching, I am continuously delighted to see how genuinely excited my students still become while holding something as decidedly low-tech as a novel.

My school is located in the South Bronx, and my students generally live in poverty.

My school has always worked to find ways to give our students the same experiences that they would receive in the best schools in less challenged environments. Part of this has meant that we have become the sole source of reading material for most of our families. Very few of our students are afforded the opportunity to walk into a book store and buy a book, yet they have shown that they are willing to invest the time into reading when they are offered the same high-quality, engaging books that other children across the country are reading. Our students are incredibly diverse and indeed arrive at our school from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Some of our students are living with disabilities. Many of our students are growing up in non-traditional households. We hope to build classroom libraries that reflect this diversity.

My Project

My students need books such as "Just Jake" and "The Wednesday Wars" in order to participate in our Social Issues Book Club unit in reading workshop. We believe that book clubs are a powerful instructional tool. Since our students read at a variety of different reading levels, each student is usually reading a different book from his or her classmate. When students are able to read the same book together with others in a book club, however, we see greater engagement and accountability. When they know that others are depending on them to read a certain number of pages each night, we see their reading volume increasing. When they know that they are going to have to talk to others about what they are reading, they think more deeply about what they are reading. When they have the opportunity to hear the thoughts of others, they learn important lessons about how a text can be interpreted and experienced different ways by different readers.

Book clubs are currently challenging in that we don't possess multiple copies of the kinds of texts that would allow us to investigate the theme of social issues in literature.

This is a study that is especially important for our school in that many of our students are living in the midst of these issues; from poverty to immigration to the loss of loved ones to bullying. Our students' lives will change when they are able to see themselves in books and share in conversations with club members.

Mr. Kyle Middle School 223 Laboratory School of Fin & Technical Grades 6-8

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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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
The Question of Miracles • Amazon Business $12.27 4 $49.08
Middle School: Get Me out of Here! • Amazon Business $11.57 4 $46.28
Middle School: Big Fat Liar • Amazon Business $11.57 4 $46.28
Just Jake #1 • Amazon Business $11.27 4 $45.08
The Odd Squad, Bully Bait (An Odd Squad Book) • Amazon Business $10.83 4 $43.32
I Even Funnier: A Middle School Story (I Funny) • Amazon Business $10.62 4 $42.48
I Funny: A Middle School Story • Amazon Business $8.00 4 $32.00
Home of the Brave • Amazon Business $7.99 4 $31.96
How Do You Spell G-E-E-K? • Amazon Business $7.00 4 $28.00
Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading (Charlie Joe Jackson Series) • Amazon Business $6.99 4 $27.96
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze • Amazon Business $6.88 4 $27.52
The Wednesday Wars • Amazon Business $6.29 4 $25.16

Materials cost

$445.12

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$481.80

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.02

Total project goal

$566.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $566.82

1 Donor

-$566.82

Donations toward project cost

-$481.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$85.02

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 $0.00

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