'I want to give our students the opportunity to find themselves in a story.'
books that feature black characters as heroes and books that tell the stories of people of color.
Roseanna Orta, a high school English teacher in Arizona, took to DonorsChoose to ask for more diverse books for her classroom."By making their stories come alive in the classroom, all students have the opportunity to see the contribution that all people make to the American narrative," Orta wrote in her request."We are a country of multiple perspectives and I want to make sure that everyone has a presence in my class library.
In Ohio, Jessie Stanley, a middle school English teacher, also saw the need to make her classroom library more diverse. "Middle school is a bubble where [students] only think of people in their close proximity and not other people’s experiences," she said."With these books, we can do book groups and that will hopefully open up the doorway to talk about what stories they’re learning about and the themes and introduce them to a bunch of authors."
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