More than half 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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This upcoming year is going to be my second year teaching. Help me grow my classroom library to help engage and encourage my students to learn as much as possible about everything they can.
Books allow us to dive into worlds unknown, they open doors to countries we will never visit, and they teach us that there is more to life than just what's outside our windows.
"If we don’t give children books that are literary mirrors as well as windows to the whole world of possibility, if these books don’t give them the opportunity to see outside themselves, then how can we expect them to grow into adults who connect in meaningful ways to a global community, to people who might look or live differently than they. You cannot." -Kwame Alexander
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This upcoming year is going to be my second year teaching. Help me grow my classroom library to help engage and encourage my students to learn as much as possible about everything they can.
Books allow us to dive into worlds unknown, they open doors to countries we will never visit, and they teach us that there is more to life than just what's outside our windows.
"If we don’t give children books that are literary mirrors as well as windows to the whole world of possibility, if these books don’t give them the opportunity to see outside themselves, then how can we expect them to grow into adults who connect in meaningful ways to a global community, to people who might look or live differently than they. You cannot." -Kwame Alexander