{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Alexander Hamilton Senior High School","outOfStateSupporters":14.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5624578,"projectId":9375287,"letterContent":"The journaling supplies have been fun and engaging for my students. Students are journaling about life experiences in my Social Skills course.\r\nStudents loved the size and look of the journals. Some students expressed that they had always wanted a journal but didn't feel comfortable asking their parents for one.\r\nStudents really took ownership of their journals, and were delighted that they were given something that felt meaningful. They also love the colorful pens also included in. the project.\r\n\r\n I will continue to use the journals in this course and will also introduce them to my science courses to have them take notes and draw pictures of the experiments we do.\r\nI'm hoping that their love of their journals will transfer over into a love of science!","fullyFundedDate":1748124802817,"projectUrl":"project/journaling-materials/9375287/","projectTitle":"Journaling Materials","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Hazelton","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5624578"},{"teacherId":43804,"projectId":9194778,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating our new SLR camera to our journalism class! We have some fabulous photographers this year who are really taking advantage of all the features of the professional equipment, and who are taking the lead in teaching other students how to fully utilize the camera. \r\n\r\nI'm excited to see the opportunities this new tool opens up for students in our reporting this year as well as in the regional and state competitions we will enter. Students have been using the camera every weekend to photograph football games, musical performances, and more, producing gorgeous and creative photography.\r\n\r\nThank you so much for your generous donation!","fullyFundedDate":1746787217465,"projectUrl":"project/help-student-journalists-capture-our-sch/9194778/","projectTitle":"Help Student Journalists Capture Our School Spirit","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vaca","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp43804_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1531698967313","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-mcdonald"},{"teacherId":8484945,"projectId":9190418,"letterContent":"This project helped my advanced class. The underglaze image transfers allow students with varying skill levels and abilities to complete similar projects. \r\nMy student's were so excited to see the materials. They loved all the designs. So many of them started planning their next projects around the images they picked. \r\nThese will continue to be a classroom favorite. So thankful we are able to use these transfers . Many of my student's with special needs can now apply the same quality of image to their projects that their peers had done in the past.","fullyFundedDate":1742733886280,"projectUrl":"project/underglaze-transfers/9190418/","projectTitle":"Underglaze Transfers","teacherDisplayName":"Mx. Donabedian","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8484945_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1657767739354","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8484945"},{"teacherId":9347354,"projectId":8789350,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the wonderful donation. This wonderful gift has allowed me to expand my classroom library. Students really enjoy the different books that are available to them. Having some of the tools really allowed me to organize my classroom to make it really conducive for reading and learning.\r\n\r\nStudents are able to read books from various authors around the world where they get to explore different themes and point of view. Thank you again for such a wonderful donation. The donation provided me a very engaging classroom environment, where my students feel comfortable with exploring different types of reading materials that made it easy for them to access.","fullyFundedDate":1733859046160,"projectUrl":"project/teaching-the-joy-of-reading/8789350/","projectTitle":"Teaching the Joy of Reading","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Brown","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9347354_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1726503493721","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9347354"},{"teacherId":43804,"projectId":9000073,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing our class the materials to finish the year strong! This unit coincided with AP testing and state testing, and having high-interest books allowed students to stay engaged with the class during a difficult time of year. Students were able to use their weekly book clubs as periods of relief during a stressful couple months.\r\n\r\nWe are still wrapping up the unit as the school year ends, so I'm attaching some photos of discussion groups and the final project that will ask students to engage more creatively with the texts than they have been able to do while preparing for the AP test. Thank you so much for these materials that enlivened our class and provided students access to great stories!","fullyFundedDate":1741303608283,"projectUrl":"project/journeys-of-all-kinds/9000073/","projectTitle":"Journeys of All Kinds","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vaca","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp43804_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1531698967313","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-mcdonald"},{"teacherId":43804,"projectId":8999866,"letterContent":"These voice recorders arrived at a crucial time in our school year, just as our district phone ban went into effect and right before we were finalizing articles for our April print edition. The loss of tools from the phone ban could have been a disaster, but these voice recorders saved the day, allowing students to seamlessly transition to the new tool and continue their interviews and reporting.\r\n\r\nAs you'll see in the thank you notes, these recorders also delivered a surprise benefit of increasing students' sense of professionalism. Students found the devices fun to use and expressed that they made them feel like \"real reporters.\"\r\n\r\nThanks so much for providing this important tool for our newspaper to continue to grow and thrive!","fullyFundedDate":1739819651231,"projectUrl":"project/journalism-without-devices/8999866/","projectTitle":"Journalism without Devices","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vaca","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp43804_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1531698967313","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-mcdonald"},{"teacherId":9816997,"projectId":8967298,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous contribution to my class! By the end of the lab, students were able to use data to determine whether a type of soil was well-suited for growing different crops. They gained knowledge of how soil productivity is determined to help foster a deeper understanding of crop yields and the impacts of agriculture. The supplies requested were used to determine the nutrient levels of the soil on campus. These tests are very important because identifying nutrients in the soil helps inform future care methods. These nutrients are used by plants for the creation of amino acids, seed formation, metabolism, and so much more! Teaching students in urban environments about plant growth helps to increase self-reliance and appreciation for our food.","fullyFundedDate":1734712126851,"projectUrl":"project/a-groundbreaking-soil-lab-dont-take-it/8967298/","projectTitle":"A Groundbreaking Soil Lab! Don't Take It for Granite!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kleinmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9816997_orig.jpg?crop=500,500,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1730047464481","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9816997"},{"teacherId":9816997,"projectId":8904939,"letterContent":"Wow! You are amazing!! Thank you so much for caring about student learning and mental health! My students loved this aquarium upgrade! \r\n\r\nThese items were used to upgrade my classroom aquarium! I teach Marine Biology and AP Environmental Science, and the aquarium helps to ground us in science practices at the beginning of class. We make observations, develop questions, and discuss experimental methods for how we would investigate those questions. The science practice of making observations, slows our minds and hearts and forces us to be present with each other and our surroundings. Watching fish swim has a calming effect, and studies show that observing aquatic life can reduce stress and anxiety levels. Students learn that you can \"do science\" anywhere, and that the act of slowing down and paying attention is good for our mental health.\r\n\r\nStudents have already designed incredible experimental questions about our classroom aquarium and students will often come into my class during breaks to watch the fish on a hard day.","fullyFundedDate":1730309301545,"projectUrl":"project/a-fin-tastic-purchase-for-a-marine-biolo/8904939/","projectTitle":"A Fin-tastic Purchase for a Marine Biology Classroom!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kleinmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9816997_orig.jpg?crop=500,500,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1730047464481","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9816997"},{"teacherId":43804,"projectId":8590133,"letterContent":"We learned so much from reading and discussing these books this month. Students appreciated the wide variety of choices and the high-interest topics. The thematic collection allowed us to discuss and write about ethical dilemmas as a class, while book clubs for individual texts allowed students to delve into the rhetorical choices of the authors as well as the powerful language.\r\n\r\nWe finished this unit with a rhetorical analysis presentation, in which students analyzed the features of their text and then learned about others. Here are a few great lines from their presentations:\r\n\r\n-Discussing exigence, one group wrote of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: \"Skloot was motivated to write this book because she was frustrated with the omnipresence of HeLa cells and the lack of information about Henrietta herself. As she researched more, Skloot's motivation shifted to helping Henrietta's family and questioning the medical and scientific practices surrounding her case.\"\r\n\r\n-Analyzing the rhetorical choices in Radium Girls, another group described: \"Moore includes many pieces of gritty detail about the girls' afflictions caused by radium. She describes the girls' looks and character. She describes them as lively, which later contrasts with them dying gruesome deaths. Moore compares the girls to ghosts and included times when other characters had called the girls ghosts due to them being luminous.\"\r\n\r\n-A third group captured the tone in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: \"The tone within the book exhibits empathy and curiosity. The tone is empathetic because it shows the compassion and the understanding of the family facing these challenges in the U.S. It also shifts to tones of curiosity because the author highlights her understanding of the Hmong culture and stories.\"\r\n\r\nThank you for giving our classroom so much to learn and discuss! 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