{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Geraldine W Johnson School","outOfStateSupporters":50.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":240708,"projectId":10370210,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our classroom with a class set of Scholastic Magazines. These texts help students develop important reading skills such as identifying the main idea, using text features, building vocabulary, and understanding informational texts. The magazines also introduce students to interesting topics in science, social studies, and current events, helping them make connections between reading and the world around them.\r\n\r\nReading in our classroom is interactive and meaningful. Students use the magazines during whole-class lessons, small-group discussions, and independent reading time. The digital access has been especially valuable, allowing students to continue reading and exploring articles both at school and at home. Having their own reading materials has increased engagement and encouraged students to read more independently.\r\n\r\nMany students who are typically hesitant readers have been especially excited about the magazines because of the high-interest topics, colorful visuals, and accessible format. It has been wonderful to see students eager to share facts they have learned and discuss articles with their classmates. Your generosity has helped foster a genuine excitement for reading, and we are so grateful for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1785436256001,"projectUrl":"project/scholastic-magazines-for-first-grade-sup/10370210/","projectTitle":"Scholastic Magazines for First Grade Superstars!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. DiIorio","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/240708"},{"teacherId":8549267,"projectId":10321773,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making our Scholastic magazine project possible! Your generosity has made a meaningful impact on our second-grade classroom by providing students with engaging, age-appropriate reading materials that bring learning to life. The magazines spark curiosity, encourage a love of reading, and allow students to explore a variety of topics, including science, social studies, nature, and the world around them. Having these resources available gives students exciting opportunities to build vocabulary, strengthen reading comprehension, and make connections between what they learn in the classroom and the world around them.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, your support helps create enthusiastic, confident learners. Students look forward to receiving their magazines and are excited to read, share interesting facts, ask questions, and participate in meaningful discussions with their classmates. These magazines help make learning fun, accessible, and engaging for all learners while encouraging curiosity and a lifelong love of reading. Thank you for investing in our students and helping make such a positive difference in their educational journey. We are truly grateful for your kindness and generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1785436255120,"projectUrl":"project/help-my-students-explore-the-world-throu/10321773/","projectTitle":"Help My Students Explore the World Through Scholastic News","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Rickel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8549267_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1781736849432","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrshattani"},{"teacherId":9572089,"projectId":10387274,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping provide my students with whiteboards and pencils to allow students different ways to show their thinking. They are particularly useful when we do small group activities so students can demonstrate their learning and quickly correct any mistakes they may make. \r\n\r\nMany students who often don't like to show their work enjoy working on these whiteboards. The whiteboards help keep them engaged and show their work in a way that may be useful for their own learning, to help their peers, or for myself as the teacher to better monitor their progress.","fullyFundedDate":1785425148812,"projectUrl":"project/whiteboard-suppliespencils-for-math-stu/10387274/","projectTitle":"Whiteboard Supplies/Pencils for Math Students","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Librandi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9572089"},{"teacherId":4611676,"projectId":10477234,"letterContent":"THANK YOU so much for bringing this project to life in our second-grade classroom! When the boxes arrived, my students' eyes completely lit up with excitement. They couldn't wait to unpack everything, and the moment they saw the AlphaMagnets GO! Spelling Set and the handheld water games, there was an audible cheer in the room! For my energetic learners and students with ADHD, seeing tools that honor both their need to move and their need to learn made them feel instantly understood and supported.\r\n\r\nWe have already put these fantastic resources to work during our daily literacy blocks! The magnetic spelling sets and flash card flip-books have completely transformed phonics practice into an interactive, hands-on game. Students who used to get frustrated during reading are now eagerly building words, manipulating letters, and decoding with confidence. Meanwhile, the retro handheld water games and speed cubes have become our go-to \"brain break\" tools. Having these quiet, tactile sensory resets allows my neurodiverse students to take a meaningful break, self-regulate, and jump back into writing and reading lessons fully focused and ready to succeed.\r\n\r\n Your generosity has made a lasting impact on our classroom, and we are so grateful for your kindness!","fullyFundedDate":1789595698331,"projectUrl":"project/active-minds-active-hands/10477234/","projectTitle":"Active Minds, Active Hands!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Angel Rodriguez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4611676_orig.png?crop=423,423,x7,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1667404637737","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rodrigueza"},{"teacherId":9966488,"projectId":10174053,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generous donations, our students now have access to high-quality headphones that have transformed their individualized learning experiences. With fewer distractions and clearer audio, students are able to fully engage with programs such as Lexia, Lexia English, and DreamBox. These tools provide personalized instruction tailored to each student's needs, allowing them to work at their own pace while building essential reading, language, and math skills. The headphones have helped create a more focused learning environment, enabling students to hear instructions clearly and participate confidently in their lessons.\r\n\r\nThe impact of this project has been evident in both student engagement and academic growth. Students look forward to using their learning programs each day and are more independent as they navigate lessons and practice skills. English language learners especially benefit from being able to clearly hear language models and pronunciation support through Lexia English. Your generosity has provided our students with the resources they need to succeed, helping them strengthen foundational skills, increase confidence, and make meaningful progress toward their learning goals. Thank you for investing in our students' futures and supporting their educational journey.","fullyFundedDate":1781716202169,"projectUrl":"project/hear-to-learn/10174053/","projectTitle":"Hear to Learn","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Slater","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9966488_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x67,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1742351582034","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/slatera"},{"teacherId":8549267,"projectId":10297641,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our DonorsChoose project and providing our classroom with math tools, including desk dividers, number lines, hundred charts, and a magnetic base-ten set. Your generosity ensures that every second grade student has access to the hands-on materials needed to learn, participate, and succeed in math.\r\n\r\nThese resources have made a meaningful impact on our classroom. Desk dividers help students focus during independent work by reducing distractions and creating a calm learning space. Number lines and hundred charts give students visual tools to understand counting, addition, subtraction, place value, and number relationships. The magnetic base-ten set allows students to build and manipulate ones, tens, and hundreds, making abstract math concepts more concrete and easier to understand.\r\n\r\nFor many families, purchasing classroom learning tools can be a financial burden. Your support helps relieve that pressure while ensuring that every student has the materials needed to participate fully in daily lessons. Students can now explore mathematical ideas, explain their thinking, and practice new skills with confidence.\r\n\r\nBecause of your generosity, a lack of supplies is no longer a barrier to learning. These tools encourage independence, strengthen problem-solving skills, and help make math engaging and accessible for every learner in our second grade class. Thank you for investing in our students and helping create a focused, supportive classroom where all children can grow as mathematicians!","fullyFundedDate":1780499191131,"projectUrl":"project/from-counting-to-confidence-empowering/10297641/","projectTitle":"From Counting to Confidence: Empowering Young Mathematicians","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Rickel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8549267_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1781736849432","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrshattani"},{"teacherId":8549267,"projectId":10329596,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our DonorsChoose project and providing our classroom with a class set of headphones. Your generosity ensures that every second grade student has the tools needed to learn, participate, and succeed.\r\n\r\nFor many families, purchasing school supplies can be a financial burden. Your support helps relieve that pressure while ensuring students are prepared for school each day.\r\n\r\nHeadphones allow students to focus during independent work, listen to digital lessons, practice reading and math skills, and work at their own pace with fewer distractions. They also help students hear directions clearly and build confidence and independence.\r\n\r\nBecause of your generosity, a lack of supplies is no longer a barrier to learning. Thank you for investing in our students and helping create a focused, supportive classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1785331559098,"projectUrl":"project/sounding-success-headphones-to-power-fo/10329596/","projectTitle":"Sounding Success: Headphones to Power Focus and Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Rickel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8549267_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1781736849432","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrshattani"},{"teacherId":8549267,"projectId":10322116,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our DonorsChoose project and providing our classroom with class sets of dry erase markers, pencil boxes, folders, pencils, and crayons. Your generosity has made a meaningful difference in our classroom and has helped ensure that every student has the materials they need to learn, participate, and be successful.\r\n\r\nFor many families, the cost of school supplies can add an additional financial burden, especially when students need multiple supplies throughout the school year. Because of your support, our families no longer have to worry about purchasing these essential classroom materials on their own. This allows parents and caregivers to focus their resources on other important needs while knowing their children are prepared for school each day.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, every student now has access to the supplies they need. Students can organize their materials in their own pencil boxes, keep their work and assignments in folders, and use pencils and crayons for daily learning activities. Having class sets of dry erase markers also allows every student to actively participate in lessons, practice new skills, and share their thinking without worrying about whether they have the materials to do so.\r\n\r\nYour donation has helped create a classroom where students can come ready to learn and where lack of supplies is no longer a barrier to participation. The excitement and confidence that come from having the right tools in hand are invaluable. Thank you for investing in our students and helping us create an environment where every child has the opportunity and materials necessary for success!","fullyFundedDate":1781716207413,"projectUrl":"project/equipped-to-learn-ready-to-shine/10322116/","projectTitle":"Equipped to Learn, Ready to Shine","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Rickel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8549267_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1781736849432","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrshattani"},{"teacherId":1060162,"projectId":10093666,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting my students. The only concern that I have is that with technology comes other issues beyond my control. \r\n These devices work great but unfortunately cannot get onto the wi fi network that the school uses. I have made repeated attempts to contact help desk but so far have not received any response.\r\n I know that once this issue is resolved my students will be able to use these devices to help with their assignments. With technology comes problems that I cannot solve on my own.","fullyFundedDate":1780499996935,"projectUrl":"project/online-learning/10093666/","projectTitle":"Online Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Majersky","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1060162"},{"teacherId":240708,"projectId":10150965,"letterContent":"\\\r\nThank you for supporting my Donors Choose project! The colored copy paper has already been put to great use in my first-grade classroom. I have used it to create communication folders and send home important parent notices, helping families stay connected to their child's learning. These supplies make the classroom more organized and support strong home-school communication.\r\n\r\nThe Teachers Pay Teachers gift cards have also made an immediate impact. Part of the funding was used to purchase differentiated reading passages and a year-long phonics activity bundle that support students at a variety of learning levels while making literacy instruction engaging and fun. Your generosity is helping to provide meaningful learning experiences for my students, and I am truly grateful for your support. Thank you for investing in my classroom and my young learners!","fullyFundedDate":1781716204508,"projectUrl":"project/teacher-tools-to-make-learning-pop/10150965/","projectTitle":"Teacher Tools to Make Learning Pop!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. DiIorio","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/240708"},{"teacherId":6949669,"projectId":10365439,"letterContent":"The supplies that you helped get into the hands of my students, while may seem common place, allow them to 'figure things out' for themselves. One of the goals for 7th graders is to learn the process of problem solving: question, access prior knowledge, research (where applicable), propose possible solutions, carry out experiments, record observations and data (develop own data tables), analyze, re-evaluate and start the process again.\r\n\r\nThe pictures show this. The students were asked if 3 pieces of paper and 30cm of tape could hold up a stack of books. Minimal supplies of simple materials are now transformed into a hands-on, brain storming, problem solving activity. The students moved from confusion, to light-bulb moments, to structure building and final exclamations of success and pride.","fullyFundedDate":1785096078518,"projectUrl":"project/future-detectives-need-real-science-tool/10365439/","projectTitle":"Future Detectives Need Real Science Tools!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Welch","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6949669"},{"teacherId":9572089,"projectId":10374171,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping provide my students with new calculators. While there are times to work on computation fluency, there are also times where calculators help students focus on the concepts being taught, rather than focusing on calculations that may trip them up. These calculators allow my students to move forward in class with confidence. \r\n\r\nThese calculators will be especially impactful in my financial literacy class, where we will be doing a lot of work with percents. Having calculators to help students work through real life situations will help prepare them for the real world where they may need to make decisions on their own. They are able to focus on the main financial literacy concepts being taught, while utilizing the calculators to see the impact of decisions.","fullyFundedDate":1786366980052,"projectUrl":"project/calculators-for-middle-schoolers/10374171/","projectTitle":"Calculators for Middle Schoolers","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Librandi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9572089"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_96256","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":811,"numTeachers":51,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":21,"percentWhite":4,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":68,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":2,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 8","studentTeacherRatio":"15.9:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_MIDSIZE"},"inStateSupporters":50.0,"schoolId":96256,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Geraldine W Johnson School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Geraldine W Johnson School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/connecticut/bridgeport-public-schools/geraldine-w-johnson-school/96256"}