{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Glenn Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":30.4,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":3054,"projectId":10421253,"letterContent":"We can't thank you enough for your donation to our school! As you read in our proposal, one of our goals this year is to build our enrichment programs and opportunities for students. We have invested in a 3D printer, poster maker, laminator, and other devices to help students develop and create their own inventions and devices.\r\n\r\nYour donation funded a sublimation printer - a special digital printer that uses heat-sensitive inks to print designs onto transfer paper. These projects let students see their exact drawings or portraits brought to life as they are transferred onto various surfaces.\r\n\r\nPlease check out our students' first projects - school mugs!","fullyFundedDate":1787585327028,"projectUrl":"project/print-to-learn-enhancing-educational-op/10421253/","projectTitle":"Print to Learn: Enhancing Educational Opportunities!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hanlon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3054_orig.jpg?crop=429,429,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723073713579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3054"},{"teacherId":3054,"projectId":10445705,"letterContent":"We can't thank you enough for your donation to our school! As you read in our proposal, our goal is to build our students' literacy through strong take-home libraries in every classroom and family engagement around reading. Your generous donation has allowed us to purchase a book bag for every student!\r\n\r\nAs we are working to get libraries set up in each room, we wanted to share some pictures of our students who will benefit from your philanthropy. We are biased, but we believe that our students are the best in Durham and have the capacity to change our world for the better. They are readers and thinkers, writers and scientists, mathematicians and dreamers. They speak multiple languages, care for siblings, shoot three pointers, and block soccer goals. It is our privilege to work with them every day as they work to become educated citizens of our community.","fullyFundedDate":1787584945965,"projectUrl":"project/book-bags-for-our-books/10445705/","projectTitle":"Book Bags for our Books!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hanlon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3054_orig.jpg?crop=429,429,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723073713579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3054"},{"teacherId":3054,"projectId":10294865,"letterContent":"We can't thank you enough for your donation to our school! As you read in our proposal, last year we launched our new PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions & Support) system and saw incredible results! A large component of our plan was our Compliment Card system. Compliment Cards are given school-wide to students and classes that demonstrate our PRIDE characteristics (Promoting Kindness, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and Excellence). As students earned Compliment Cards for their classes, they received small celebrations for their teamwork. \r\n\r\nYour donation purchased enough popsicles and popcorn for an entire year of popsicle parties and popcorn movie days! We've already had our first few classes earn their popsicle parties. We hope you enjoy these pictures from our events!","fullyFundedDate":1787585103440,"projectUrl":"project/popcorn-and-popsicles/10294865/","projectTitle":"Popcorn and Popsicles!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hanlon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3054_orig.jpg?crop=429,429,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723073713579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3054"},{"teacherId":3054,"projectId":10229573,"letterContent":"We can't thank you enough for your donation to our school! As you read in our proposal, five years ago (after COVID), our school's math proficiency was 28th out of 31 schools in our district. Today, we are number 2 and our 3rd grade math proficiency is one of the highest in the state!!! How did we get here? It's a reflex!\r\n\r\nReflex is a personalized math program that is designed to master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts quickly and with automaticity! Students work on the program for three days a week for 15 minutes to earn their \"green light.\" The program includes game-like activities that focus on the skills teachers have assigned to students as well as their personal progress. Between our 2nd-5th grades, students have solved over 4 million facts this year alone, with an average fluency gain of 137 facts per student!\r\n\r\nWe are so grateful for your generosity in funding these incredible programs! Thank you again for your support of our students, teachers, and our school!","fullyFundedDate":1787585592346,"projectUrl":"project/its-all-in-the-reflexes/10229573/","projectTitle":"It's All in the Reflex(es)!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hanlon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3054_orig.jpg?crop=429,429,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723073713579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3054"},{"teacherId":3054,"projectId":10414724,"letterContent":"We can't thank you enough for your donation to our school! As you read in our proposal, when we came to our school in the fall of 2021, it was ranked last in our district (and close to last in the state) for student growth, or the measure of how much students learn in a year. We were almost ranked last in reading, math, and science proficiency. The school had even been considered for state takeover due to its historical performance.\r\n\r\nWe knew our kids were so much more than test scores, but that they also had the capacity to learn much more than they were showing on state tests. In just four years, our school has gone from almost last in many measures to number 1 in math for the entire county AND 6th overall in reading, math, and science composite proficiency. No one would have believed this was possible, except for maybe our teachers and our kids. We knew what they could do!\r\n\r\nYour donation purchased hundreds of snacks to provide some brain energy to our students in our tutoring program. THANK YOU!","fullyFundedDate":1787585082647,"projectUrl":"project/snacks-for-after-school-success/10414724/","projectTitle":"Snacks for After-School Success!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hanlon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3054_orig.jpg?crop=429,429,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723073713579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3054"},{"teacherId":3054,"projectId":10294855,"letterContent":"We can't thank you enough for your donation to our school! As you read in our proposal, last year we launched our new PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions & Support) system and saw incredible results! A large component of our plan was our Compliment Card system. Compliment Cards are given school-wide to students and classes that demonstrate our PRIDE characteristics (Promoting Kindness, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and Excellence). As students earned Compliment Cards for their classes, they received small celebrations for their teamwork. \r\n\r\nYour donation purchased several sets of fun pajamas for students to borrow if they forget or don't have pajamas to wear from home. We've already had our first few classes earn their pajama days and wear these pajamas to celebrate. We hope you enjoy these pictures from our pajama day events!","fullyFundedDate":1787585257124,"projectUrl":"project/crazy-pajamas-for-crazy-great-students/10294855/","projectTitle":"Crazy Pajamas for Crazy Great Students!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hanlon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3054_orig.jpg?crop=429,429,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723073713579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3054"},{"teacherId":3054,"projectId":10253202,"letterContent":"We can't thank you enough for your donation to our school! As you read in our proposal, last year we launched our new PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions & Support) system and saw incredible results! A large component of our plan was our Compliment Card system. Compliment Cards are given school-wide to students and classes that demonstrate our PRIDE characteristics (Promoting Kindness, Respect, Integrity, Determination, and Excellence). As students earned Compliment Cards for their classes, they received small celebrations for their teamwork. \r\n\r\nYour donation purchased several sets of crazy and silly hats for students to borrow if they forget or don't have a silly hat to wear from home. We've already had our first few classes earn their hat days and wear these hats to celebrate. We hope you enjoy these pictures from our hat day events!","fullyFundedDate":1787585238270,"projectUrl":"project/crazy-hats-for-crazy-great-students/10253202/","projectTitle":"Crazy Hats for Crazy Great Students!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hanlon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3054_orig.jpg?crop=429,429,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723073713579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3054"},{"teacherId":2469656,"projectId":10239874,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations!\r\n\r\nA breath of fresh air has blown into our library. I've never had to manage so many arguments over books (it's a good thing!). I have loved getting to see students so invested in finishing a title and skipping over to trade it in for the next in the series. They have been craving silent reading time and groaning when it ends. \r\n\r\nThese books have worked out better than I ever thought they could, and have motivated even my most struggling readers. Thank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1778156893727,"projectUrl":"project/growing-independent-readers-one-book-at/10239874/","projectTitle":"Growing Independent Readers, One Book at a Time","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. O'Neil-Dunne","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2469656_orig.jpg?crop=1440,1440,x0,y124&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1784131842498","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/msoneildunne"},{"teacherId":3054,"projectId":10130867,"letterContent":"We can't thank you enough for your donation to our school! As you read in our proposal, last year, one of our teachers found an incredible platform called Reading A-Z and Science A-Z. Reading A-Z contains an online library of 1,500 decodable texts (that align with current Science of Reading instruction), 3,000 high-interest books to peak student engagement, and more! Books can be printed, shared, projected, and imported through other platforms such as Google slides and Kami. The texts focus on increasing content area exposure, building background knowledge, and developing strong foundational skills like decoding and phonics.\r\n\r\nWe are so grateful for your generosity to fund these incredible programs! We have already been using them for about a month now and will continue to use them over the summer and next year. Thank you again for your support of our students, teachers, and our school!","fullyFundedDate":1776781968974,"projectUrl":"project/as-easy-as-a-to-z/10130867/","projectTitle":"As Easy as A to Z","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hanlon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3054_orig.jpg?crop=429,429,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723073713579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3054"},{"teacherId":5217235,"projectId":10102626,"letterContent":"Thank you SO much for all of the new books! \r\nOne of my many passions as a teacher is making sure my students have engaging, relevant books that they can see themselves in as characters.\r\nAs a country, we are in the middle of a literacy crisis, where students are reading less and less. We have protected time daily to ensure that students are reading at least 20 minutes. The new books you have provided us with have helped me make sure that EVERY student is excited and ready for independent reading time!","fullyFundedDate":1772305283161,"projectUrl":"project/new-books-to-engage-readers/10102626/","projectTitle":"New Books to Engage Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Craig","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5217235_272x272.png?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520296281616","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-craigs-crew"},{"teacherId":5217235,"projectId":9285590,"letterContent":"Thank you SO much for all of the new books! \r\nOne of my many passions as a teacher is making sure my students have engaging, relevant books that they can see themselves in as characters.\r\nAs a country, we are in the middle of a literacy crisis, where students are reading less and less. We have protected time daily to ensure that students are reading at least 20 minutes. The new books you have provided us with have helped me make sure that EVERY student is excited and ready for independent reading time!","fullyFundedDate":1752677157150,"projectUrl":"project/5th-graders-love-graphic-novels/9285590/","projectTitle":"5th Graders Love Graphic Novels","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Craig","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5217235_272x272.png?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520296281616","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-craigs-crew"},{"teacherId":5217235,"projectId":10261430,"letterContent":"Thank you SO much for funding this project so quickly during Teacher Appreciation week! It was truly the best gift. \r\nBasic supply projects are the ones I am the most passionate about. Students and parents face enough hardships, they should not have to worry about providing a lengthy school supply list for their students. Before Donors Choose, basic supplies are what I was spending the most of my own money on for the classroom. 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