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Ms. Spillane from Staten Island, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Turning Our Raiders Into Readers

Help me give my students endless possibilities by reading some books that are reflective of their own culture, backgrounds, and experiences while exploring new worlds through other books and series.

  • $592 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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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

Students who attend our school are a mixture of different economic and cultural backgrounds. We are a Title I school with over 75% qualifying for free lunch. Many of our students are first-generation college-bound students, some even the very first in their family to apply, let alone attend and graduate from college. Other students in our school dedicate their lives to the armed services after participating in our JROTC program. We also have students preparing for culinary school, technology and coding, and business enterprises. We have an open and accepting student body that accepts everyone for their differences, and more so, embraces each other for those differences. This has been made more apparent as we have returned from remote learning.

This year's independent reading program has been met with great enthusiasm and eagerness from our students.

We have voracious readers, and some are reluctant readers who just haven't found the right book yet! Our students are emerging from the isolation of quarantining and remote learning; they are yearning to turn the pages of books they can hold in their hands.

My Project

Recently, a local elected official shared a graph on social media illustrating that teenagers are no longer reading for fun. While this may be true, it should be noted that many of our students simply do not have the time to sit and just read a book for fun. Students are busy with afterschool activities, sports, work, taking care of elderly relatives or younger siblings. One way to combat this challenge is that our school has embarked on a ten-minute independent reading block every day in our ELA classes.

Students have begun to discover the joy and love of reading, but we need more books to keep our students engaged.

They have become voracious readers of graphic novels and classic American literature. It is my hope that we can replenish our libraries and continue building on our students' successes.

Ms. Spillane Port Richmond High School Grades 9-12

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

150 students impacted 15donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Invincible Compendium Volume 1 • Amazon Business $42.05 2 $84.10
Fangirl, Vol. 1: The Manga (1) • Amazon Business $15.99 2 $31.98
Speak: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $15.71 2 $31.42
The Road • Amazon Business $10.21 3 $30.63
The Things They Carried • Amazon Business $13.19 2 $26.38
Transcendent Kingdom: A novel • Amazon Business $12.70 2 $25.40
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks • Amazon Business $12.10 2 $24.20
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 2 $21.98
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time • Amazon Business $7.29 3 $21.87
Humans • Amazon Business $21.01 1 $21.01
No Country for Old Men • Amazon Business $10.26 2 $20.52
Norse Mythology • Amazon Business $10.19 2 $20.38
The Hobbit (Graphic Novel) with a subtitle of An illustrated edition of the fantasy classic • Amazon Business $16.39 1 $16.39
Be More Chill: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Art of War: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
The Dutch House: A Novel • Amazon Business $13.95 1 $13.95
Hamnet • Amazon Business $13.77 1 $13.77
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $12.45 1 $12.45
The Call of the Wild: The Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story • Amazon Business $4.99 2 $9.98

Materials cost

$465.78

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.99

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$502.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.72

Total project goal

$591.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $591.49

14 Donors

-$380.27

Donations toward project cost

-$341.18

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.09

match offer

-$190.14

Match offer toward project cost

-$161.62

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.52

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$21.12

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 $0.00

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