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.
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I will be teaching first grade for the first time this year! In order to provide the best learning setting for my students, it is important for me to have a classroom library. This will help inspire a love of reading and learning in my students and broaden their horizons with many different types of stories. However, I need a lot of books to get to that point.
I specifically want to provide my students with books about people who look like them. For that reason, I specifically asked for book sets that feature African Americans, Latino people, and Asian cultures as well. This is a more accurate representation of my classroom, and for that reason I chose these sets. Ideally, I can set a culture of inclusion in my classroom, and the students can identify with characters they are reading about as well.
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I will be teaching first grade for the first time this year! In order to provide the best learning setting for my students, it is important for me to have a classroom library. This will help inspire a love of reading and learning in my students and broaden their horizons with many different types of stories. However, I need a lot of books to get to that point.
I specifically want to provide my students with books about people who look like them. For that reason, I specifically asked for book sets that feature African Americans, Latino people, and Asian cultures as well. This is a more accurate representation of my classroom, and for that reason I chose these sets. Ideally, I can set a culture of inclusion in my classroom, and the students can identify with characters they are reading about as well.