{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Benson West Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":40.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5109373,"projectId":9250681,"letterContent":"I am grateful for your generous donations that helped provide a new class set of \"The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963\" for my students. Your support ensures that students will have their eyes on the text while reading this powerful story, allowing them to engage with its humor and poignant moments. \r\n\r\nWith these books, our classroom will continue to spark curiosity, conversations, and empathy as students explore family bonds, courage, and resilience during a pivotal era in American history. The books will be shared, read aloud, and revisited as students analyze character development, theme, and historical context, while building literacy skills and developing critical thinking about civil rights and social justice.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in our students' education and for helping us keep this incredible story a class favorite for years to come!","fullyFundedDate":1746478869287,"projectUrl":"project/bringing-birmingham-1963-to-the-bulldog/9250681/","projectTitle":"Bringing Birmingham 1963 to the Bulldogs!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Childers","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5109373_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1517093690129","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/terri-childers"},{"teacherId":9176738,"projectId":9306115,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation to my professional development project. As a new teacher in the High Ability Learning program, these texts have helped me learn about the unique needs of gifted learners. There are so many projects, challenges and styles of teaching that are showcased and my students have been loving them!\r\n\r\nAs a classroom teacher for many years, I was not prepared to really teach my gifted learners and their unique needs and challenges. With these books, I have been able to use more strategies to help my gifted learners start to challenge themselves and push past their comfort zone. \r\n\r\nI am so excited as this new school year gets underway to continue to use these books with all of the project based learning ideas and strategies to help my gifted learners continue to reach their fullest potential.","fullyFundedDate":1747417127075,"projectUrl":"project/gifted-students-need-educated-teachers/9306115/","projectTitle":"Gifted Students Need Educated Teachers!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tufte","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9176738_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1691794131540","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-tufte"},{"teacherId":9999067,"projectId":9255920,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity in my flexible seating project. My students were so excited to see the options they had to help them with learning. I have 3 students in particular who have greatly improved with these. One of them - his favorite seat are the block stools. This has given him stability and a grounded feeling that he his undesirable behaviors have greatly diminished AND he is participating more in whole group music discussions! Another - she loves the yoga balls. She is a very energetic young girl who tends to wander during class. With these yoga balls, she's able to bounce quietly to help her focus. She noticed that these yoga balls have a weight pack inside them and she told me it helps remind her to not roll around the room while using it.\r\n\r\nMy district adopted a new music curriculum resource so we are using these seating options to help us learn the new struggle that is this new curriculum. We have had more success after we started using these items. We cannot thank you enough!!","fullyFundedDate":1746576552605,"projectUrl":"project/flexible-seating-in-music-class/9255920/","projectTitle":"Flexible Seating in Music Class","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. McDougall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9999067_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755622900952","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9999067"},{"teacherId":9176738,"projectId":9225353,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation to our Reading Olympics project! This allowed us to have enough copies of our Reading Olympics books so every student could have one. \r\n\r\nEach year, Reading Olympics gets chapter books in the hands of students who are on iPads the majority of the day. Having an actual book to read, makes a huge difference in building their love of reading. Students get to enjoy 30 minutes of uninterrupted reading and explore worlds outside of our classroom walls. Whether they are traveling to space or World War 2, they get to experience the joy of a great book.\r\n\r\nAt the completion of each Reading Olympics, students get to attend a field trip where they can put their book knowledge and creativity to use. Whether it is a Quiz Bowl or a Science experiment, the students wouldn't be able to participate without the books that you helped provide.","fullyFundedDate":1744232091457,"projectUrl":"project/reading-olympics-mission-possible/9225353/","projectTitle":"Reading Olympics: Mission Possible","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tufte","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9176738_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1691794131540","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-tufte"},{"teacherId":9176738,"projectId":9128846,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to my project \"Invitation to Invent.\" Your donation helped me purchase the supplies for my students be able to have an amazing hands on Science experience!\r\n\r\nWhether it was building a screw, using a pulley or creating a wheel and axle, the equipment provided through this project brought the Science experiments to life. Using all of these simple machines together, helped us build unique and individual Rube Machines. \r\n\r\nWithout your kind donation, we wouldn't have been able to do it!","fullyFundedDate":1740663240825,"projectUrl":"project/invitation-to-invent/9128846/","projectTitle":"Invitation to Invent!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tufte","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9176738_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1691794131540","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-tufte"},{"teacherId":8785703,"projectId":8463907,"letterContent":"Thank you for your investment in the letter organizers for my school. I am the instructional facilitator and get the privilege of working with all teachers and students. This year we have started a new foundational skills curriculum called Structured Literacy. This curriculum has many hands on activities that task students with using letter tiles to build and manipulate words. The tiles, in baggies, became hard to manage making what should be an engaging activity a frustrating one. The letter organizers have created spaces for each tile to have an individual location, making them easy to find for word building.\r\n\r\nThe students were so excited to see the bins and the way that their letters were organized. We were able to have some volunteers who put together the letter organizers for students, so they were ready to go when they came into the classrooms. They couldn't stop talking about all the things they have seen the containers used for before (like beads or fishing), but had never seen them used for letter tiles. They were happy that the tiles were super easy to find and word building became fun again.\r\n\r\nThe students have found that having organized materials makes activities so much more fun. You get to spend the majority of the time working with letters instead of searching for the letters. Thank you again for your donation that made this happen. 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