{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Bronxdale High School","outOfStateSupporters":38.9,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":10162701,"letterContent":"Your generosity has made an immediate and meaningful impact in our classroom. When the culinary knives arrived, my students were filled with excitement and a sense of pride—they knew they were being trusted with real, professional tools. We introduced knife safety and proper cutting techniques right away, and students eagerly practiced skills like dicing onions, julienning peppers, and chiffon ding herbs. The quality of these knives has allowed them to work more efficiently and safely, turning what could have been a basic lesson into an authentic culinary experience.\r\n\r\nLooking ahead, these tools are opening the door to deeper, more advanced culinary projects. Students are beginning a unit on global cuisine, where they'll apply their knife skills to prepare dishes from different cultures, exploring both technique and tradition. They're also working toward creating their own original recipes, where presentation and knife work will play a key role. Your support has not only equipped them with essential tools, but also inspired confidence, creativity, and a true passion for the culinary arts that will continue to grow with every lesson.","fullyFundedDate":1777895668703,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-give-my-students-culinary-knives/10162701/","projectTitle":"Help Us Give My Students Culinary Knives to Learn","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":10162358,"letterContent":"Your generous support has brought new life into our classroom through the addition of these culinary-focused books. While many of our donors share a love of reading, these texts go beyond storytelling by introducing students to important interdisciplinary skills. Students are building their reading comprehension while also learning how to follow sequential instructions, interpret informational texts, and expand their academic vocabulary through culinary terminology. These books also support lessons in measurement, cultural awareness, and real-world problem-solving, as students explore recipes, food traditions, and the science behind cooking.\r\n\r\nSeveral students have shown a particularly strong connection to these new books. Some who were previously reluctant readers are now eager to participate, especially when reading about recipes or dishes they recognize from home. Others have taken pride in sharing their own cultural food traditions, making meaningful text-to-self connections. These books have not only strengthened literacy skills but have also created a sense of inclusion, curiosity, and enthusiasm in our classroom. Thank you for helping us create a dynamic learning environment where students can grow academically while exploring real-world interests.","fullyFundedDate":1777895434206,"projectUrl":"project/culinary-academy-needs-cookbooks/10162358/","projectTitle":"Culinary Academy Needs Cookbooks","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":10123472,"letterContent":"On behalf of our entire Culinary Arts program, I am writing to express our deepest and most sincere gratitude for your incredibly generous donation of supplies, including markers, poster papers, cardstock, and various other creative materials. your contributions have made a tangible difference in our classroom environment and has provided our students with the essential tools they need to bring their technical knowledge to life through visual expression.\r\n\r\nWe have used the vibrant markers and large-scale poster boards you provided to transform our classroom into a living textbook. Our students recently completed a comprehensive project focused on Kitchen safety and Sanitation Rules. Rather than simply reading these rules from a manual, students worked together to design high visibility posters that now hang throughout our current classroom space. These posters serve as constant, student created reminders of hand-washing protocols, cross contamination prevention, and emergency procedures. Because they were able to use high quality, colorful materials, these safety signs are engaging and impossible to miss, making our workspace safer for all.\r\n\r\nYour support does more than just provide \"stuff\"; it provides opportunity. it tells our students that their education is valued by the community and that they deserve to have the best possible resources at their fingertips. it allows us to pivot from a standard lecture style classroom to a dynamic, hands-on studio where creativity and culinary meet hand and hand on a daily basis.","fullyFundedDate":1777895139612,"projectUrl":"project/culinary-arts-posters-for-learning/10123472/","projectTitle":"Culinary Arts Posters for Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":9813906,"letterContent":"This project has come together so well because of your help. my students have been collecting recipes and filling this book for the year to come . They have been shopping and cutting and practicing these recipes to be the best she. They work tirelessly, searching, and filling these binders that you have bought for my students so they have all the recipes for all the events throughout the years. And them many of them work in culinary arts throughout the years because they start as freshman finish as seniors and they do all types of events like feeding the freshman breakfast and doing new year new event for all of the parents thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1765389261751,"projectUrl":"project/help-our-culinary-arts-class-steps-with/9813906/","projectTitle":"Help Our Culinary Arts Class Steps With Binders for Students","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":9747764,"letterContent":"Thank you for the laptops to search recipe's we are most likely grateful for all the help you guys are giving us we will look forward in working hard and learning more things. from recipes to other culinary matters. we thank you for the help we will be using the things you are giving us with respect and liability for we can improve us and our culinary arts class. From these things we will be learning many kinds of recipes and research even more about Culinary and what it can help us improve on thank you for the help.","fullyFundedDate":1760126790121,"projectUrl":"project/lets-recipe-harvest-with-our-class-lapt/9747764/","projectTitle":"Let's Recipe Harvest with our Class Laptop","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":9764623,"letterContent":"As teachers we take pictures of each student and put it in their portfolio that way they can feel proud and ownership to their work this will help them achieve in their future and be more professional when it comes to food and recipes they will learn from their achievements and their foods. each student will learn more and be more helpful in the class as they see they can do it and have the strength to. each student in special to us and we make sure to make them feel proud and that they can achieve what they want in life.","fullyFundedDate":1760020641259,"projectUrl":"project/focus-on-the-future-capturing-culinary/9764623/","projectTitle":"Focus on the Future: Capturing Culinary Dreams","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":9707447,"letterContent":"Thank you doners for these cleaning supplies this will help us be more sanitized when it comes to our foods and culinary projects. This will help us to keep our culinary class clean that way we can be clean and have mor opportunities to make our foods in a sanitary matter this will help us a lot since we are learning many different dishes that way we can have more experiences of foods and other different dishes and this way we can be more successful in the future when it comes to sanitary matter.","fullyFundedDate":1758833045267,"projectUrl":"project/help-mr-borone-with-cleaning-supplies-f/9707447/","projectTitle":"Help Mr. Borone with Cleaning Supplies for the Culinary Arts","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":9718288,"letterContent":"Thank you doners for this book we are looking forward to enjoying it this will help us learn more about culinary arts and teach ourselves that we can do anything in life if we put out mind and learning towards it. We will be learning a lot from this book and with this book we are going to be learning many recipes that we can all enjoy and learn from this book is really great because it teaches us the steps in leaning and the correct way to do these recipe's we are so happy that we have been given these opportunity to learn from these books and their many recipe's.","fullyFundedDate":1758636628108,"projectUrl":"project/culinary-library/9718288/","projectTitle":"Culinary Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":9134243,"letterContent":"Thank you for buying us the air fry and the other supplies we are so grateful we will be using them in class, and we are going to be making a lot of things in this school year thank you for the help we are really grateful, and we appreciate all the help you had given us. We had needed these things, and me and our class are very happy to receive it since we will be learning how to make different things and dishes during this school year, and we needed all the help we could get thank you so much for the help.","fullyFundedDate":1753203516716,"projectUrl":"project/calm-culinary-academy-creations/9134243/","projectTitle":"Calm Culinary Academy Creations!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":9134164,"letterContent":"Thank you for the utensils, we would be using the utensils. thank you for donating us these things we are so grateful for the materials, we will be using them in class to make pancakes and many other things. We will be learning how to make different types of dishes, as in cultural and typical foods and breakfast. We will be teaching the kids with these materials and, I am so grateful for all the materials we will be using them soon. thank you so much for the help. for the bowls and everything that had been donated to us, we all wish you well thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1744250204647,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-create-a-calm-culinary-library/9134164/","projectTitle":"Help Us Create a Calm Culinary Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Barone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp769779_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464184994491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/michaelbarone"},{"teacherId":769779,"projectId":9132970,"letterContent":"I thank you for your generous jester in providing me and my students with this ice cream machine. This will truly expand the inventory and menu when creating different types of engagement plans for students to participate in. Using this ice cream machine will allow us to mix ice cream with many culinary cultures. 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