{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"John Francis Polytechnic High School","outOfStateSupporters":18.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":1461823,"projectId":9603168,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation to our classroom. We have received the supplies, and our students are already using them every day in a variety of meaningful and engaging ways. Your support has made an immediate impact on both our learning environment and our students' enthusiasm for participating in classroom activities. The new materials have helped transform our space into one that is more creative, inviting, and supportive of our students' diverse learning needs.\r\n\r\nOur students, who benefit from hands-on, visual, and sensory-based learning experiences, have especially enjoyed the creative projects made possible by your donations. During the holiday season, they were able to design and create crafts and decorations that they proudly displayed in the classroom. Activities like these not only allow students to express themselves artistically, but also give them valuable opportunities to practice fine motor skills, follow directions, make choices, and experience the joy of completing a project from start to finish.\r\n\r\nThe students are so proud of what they are creating, and their excitement and confidence continue to grow each day. We truly couldn't do this without you.","fullyFundedDate":1758831122583,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-start-the-year-with-confidence-a/9603168/","projectTitle":"Help Us Start the Year with Confidence and Crayons!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Miller","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1461823_orig.jpg?crop=1280,1280,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1758129207748","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-z-miller"},{"teacherId":8413031,"projectId":9766652,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous support in providing hairbrushes and cleaning wipes for our students who are facing difficult circumstances and/or experiencing homelessness in our community. Your kindness helps restore dignity, comfort, and confidence to young people who often carry more than we can see. These simple items make a real difference in their daily lives, showing them that they are cared for and not alone. Thank you again for your donation, we are deeply grateful for your support of our students.","fullyFundedDate":1761233085053,"projectUrl":"project/bright-futures-basic-needs/9766652/","projectTitle":"Bright Futures, Basic Needs","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Rosenberg","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8413031_orig.jpg?crop=320,320,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1649443657382","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/lara-rosenberg"},{"teacherId":8413031,"projectId":9738375,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of our SRLA team. Because of your donations, our runners now have access to the water, Gatorade, and secure storage they need to stay healthy, organized, and motivated throughout the season. Your kindness helps create a safe and supportive environment where our athletes can push themselves, build confidence, and reach goals they never thought possible. We are truly grateful for your belief in our students and for helping make their SRLA experience even stronger. Thank you for being an essential part of our team's journey.","fullyFundedDate":1761084234957,"projectUrl":"project/help-disadvantaged-youth-train-for-the-l/9738375/","projectTitle":"Help Disadvantaged Youth Train for the LA Marathon","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Rosenberg","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8413031_orig.jpg?crop=320,320,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1649443657382","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/lara-rosenberg"},{"teacherId":1186909,"projectId":9284635,"letterContent":"Thanks SO much for the incredibly kind gesture of helping my students and I purchase LED light kits for filming! It's been very difficult capturing interviews that are exposed well because students film in classrooms and the majority of the light comes from the overhead LED classroom tube lights. With these kits, I've been able to teach students about three-point lighting (where students have a strong key light, a fill light, and a hair light) as well as \"producer sandwiches\" where the interviewer sits directly across from the subject and they are between the key light on one side and the camera on the other. All of these professional interview lighting techniques have been made possible because of you and I can't thank you enough for that.\r\n\r\nThanks again and we very much appreciate your contribution!","fullyFundedDate":1755739961920,"projectUrl":"project/we-cant-see-you-help-student-filmmaker/9284635/","projectTitle":"We Can't See You! Help Student Filmmakers Get LED Lights!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Madrigal","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1186909_orig.png?crop=1354,1354,x0,y31&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1610579153491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrmadrigal"},{"teacherId":1186909,"projectId":9240464,"letterContent":"Thanks SO much for the incredibly generous gift of the exposure, filming production, and screenwriting books! I'd like to focus on the Understanding Exposure book in particular. I graduated from the same school I teach in and I vividly remember being a photography student countless years ago and reading Understanding Exposure while beginning to fall in love with photography. That book was an integral part of my journey in understanding exposure (no pun intended), lighting , aperture settings, shutter speeds, and ISO film speeds. So hopefully you can imagine the absolute *magic* of providing an updated revision of the same book as I help my Film Production students discover those same principals in the same fantastic book.\r\n\r\nJust yesterday, I sat with a pod of three students who were each preparing to film a story about a student group on campus and the objective was to capture them in a cinema verité documentary style, which requires a very shallow depth of field. We all sat down with copies of Understanding Exposure and just talked about each image and how the camera settings of the image contributed to the specific looks of each photo. Students were engaged, asking questions, and more than anything else--they were *interested* in learning about photography because the book made it so easy with such beautiful images to analyze. \r\n\r\nThanks again for your incredibly kind gesture and my students and I are infinitely grateful. Have a beautiful holiday!","fullyFundedDate":1744214218474,"projectUrl":"project/film-teachers-need-book-libraries-too/9240464/","projectTitle":"Film Teachers Need Book Libraries Too","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Madrigal","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1186909_orig.png?crop=1354,1354,x0,y31&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1610579153491","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrmadrigal"},{"teacherId":9070542,"projectId":9609262,"letterContent":"the students and I are well into our boxing unit, as a result of your generosity each student had their own pair of hand wraps for the duration of the unit. With phase 1 of the unit strictly learning the wrapping technique students were eager and excited to begin the practice. \r\nAs you can imagine students are always excited when it comes to using new equipment and the hand wraps were not any different. The next steps for the class is to continue their daily movement by incorporating boxing into their exercise routine.","fullyFundedDate":1755747320749,"projectUrl":"project/mind-body-gloves-the-pe-combatives-e/9609262/","projectTitle":"Mind, Body, Gloves: the PE Combative's Experience","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Esqueda","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9070542_orig.jpg?crop=960,960,x331,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725639545202","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9070542"},{"teacherId":1176483,"projectId":9555680,"letterContent":"Thank you so much Mr. Cipra for generous donation to all my book projects! You have transformed my social studies class! When I first started teaching there was just the textbook that was issued to students. Now my students have so many more options to further their historical and literacy skills. Thank you again for all your support and I hope that you know how much you're impacting not just students but us teachers too! \r\n\r\nI wish you and your family all the best. Have a wonderful holiday season and please do consider coming back to school so you can see how your generosity has helped Poly.\r\n\r\n\r\nOpen invite always to come back! :)\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1755746773237,"projectUrl":"project/help-grow-our-reading-library-echo-by-p/9555680/","projectTitle":"Help grow our reading library! Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Madrigal","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1176483_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x470,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1605134329299","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrsmadrigal"},{"teacherId":1176483,"projectId":9402484,"letterContent":"Thank you again Mr. Cipra for your generous donation to bring Frederick Douglass' story into my classroom. The book in graphic form and will be an introduction for many of my students to a person who's very existence was questioned and belittled. I like to share with students Douglass' story to help bring them hope and inspire them to rise above their challenges. Douglass maintained hope that slavery would be abolished and dedicated his life to the cause. Now students will be able to read it directly from the man himself with the visual aids of the Damon Smyth (Illustrator) and Marissa Louise (Illustrator).\r\n\r\nThank you again Mr. Cipra for your generosity to your alma mater! Your story is inspiring and I share it with my students too!","fullyFundedDate":1755739830079,"projectUrl":"project/frederick-douglass-graphic-novel-for-yo/9402484/","projectTitle":"Frederick Douglass' Graphic Novel for Young Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Madrigal","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1176483_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x470,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1605134329299","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrsmadrigal"},{"teacherId":1176483,"projectId":9555837,"letterContent":"Thank you so much Dale Cipra for this incredible opportunity to share John Lewis' March graphic novels. Graphic novels help students to visualize and community key ideas in the reading. I try to incorporate visual mediums as much as possible to help all readers. And thank you again for sharing your own struggles because it helps me to always consider different teaching strategies to help all my students. \r\n\r\nThe March books are also especially important in my Studies class because it's all about the Civil Rights movement. My students are able to learn how much young people played a role and are inspired to make change too.\r\n\r\nThank you again Mr. Cipra for your generosity for this project and all my projects!","fullyFundedDate":1755746772324,"projectUrl":"project/help-grow-our-reading-library-with-march/9555837/","projectTitle":"Help Grow Our Reading Library With March By John Lewis","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Madrigal","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1176483_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x470,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1605134329299","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrsmadrigal"},{"teacherId":1176483,"projectId":9562659,"letterContent":"Thank you so much Dale Cipra for your generous donation to this project (This Book is Anti-Racist). Your generosity is so moving and I hope I can find the right words to express my gratitude. I'm always looking for new ways to teach difficult topics as a social studies teacher. Your generous donation helped me to connect ideas of identity, race, and history in my Ethnic Studies class made up of mostly freshman. Thank you for helping our newest students to our campus who generally need the most support. I share your story all the time because it's important for students (especially 9th graders) to see that life's challenges as an opportunity for growth. Your story is so moving and I thank you for sharing it because it really gives me the fuel to keep pushing forward. The struggles are real and the hard days are really hard but then I think of you and your family's generosity and it makes the whole of difference.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all your support!","fullyFundedDate":1755746773459,"projectUrl":"project/help-grow-library-with-this-book-is-anti/9562659/","projectTitle":"Help Grow Library with This Book is Anti-Racist","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Madrigal","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1176483_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x470,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1605134329299","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrsmadrigal"},{"teacherId":1176483,"projectId":9354887,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to help bring a native garden to my school! I'm so excited for the Spring since my students rolled up their sleeves and have started fall planting. I have spent the last few years trying to get a native garden started and it was very difficult since I was limited with resources. But thanks to your care, I am set not only for this upcoming season but for many more to come.\r\n\r\nThis project had a positive impact on my students and it helped me to connect with students in ways I hadn't expected. Many of my students are immigrants and new to the country. While I used the seeds to connect our learning to climate change, many of my students shared their own experiences in the outdoors. I learned that my student Richard harvested various crops in his home in Guatemala and took to this project with an enthusiasm that I hadn't seen. My student Miriam shared her efforts to compost in Mexico and ways that we can also start our own compost efforts. It was heart-warming to see several students \"tune in\" because they were able to work with their hands and share experiences of their past that was helpful to process feelings. I was very direct about how much they are cared for by generous donors like you and my students were moved since so many have had such difficult experiences.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping to make this life-changing project come to life. Please know that you are making a difference not only on my current students but in many more to come. You are helping them to plant their roots in their new school! Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1748466128504,"projectUrl":"project/growing-wild-our-pollinator-garden/9354887/","projectTitle":"Growing WILD: Our Pollinator Garden","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Madrigal","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1176483_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x470,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1605134329299","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrsmadrigal"},{"teacherId":1176483,"projectId":9564128,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for this incredible opportunity to help students learn about climate change and ways they can be active in their community. The supplies were so helpful and it helped to provide a creative outlet for students to share their learning. I can't wait for the next batch of projects to be completed, the pictures are just the start!\r\n\r\nI included in the pictures a reflection from my student Arlette which I wanted to translate here. She wrote:\r\n\r\n\"Honestly, painting helped and relaxed me. Painting is one of my favorite things, and being able to paint something relaxed me a lot. I was able to use my imagination to create something that came from my mind and was made with my own hands. I think that with this umbrella I created, I can help raise awareness about how to care for the environment, animals, and the natural ecosystem, so that we don't end up wiping out all the beautiful animals that exist. It helped me see the truth about the world and behind all the things that are happening to the animals that are becoming extinct because of us.\"\r\n\r\nThank you again for this opportunity and please know that your generous donation will continue to change lives in the years to come. \r\n\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1755707334855,"projectUrl":"project/climate-action-supplies/9564128/","projectTitle":"Climate Action Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Madrigal","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1176483_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x470,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1605134329299","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrsmadrigal"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_7148","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":2215,"numTeachers":124,"percentFrplEligible":90,"percentAsian":3,"percentBlack":1,"percentWhite":3,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":91,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"17.9:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":82.0,"schoolId":7148,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about John Francis Polytechnic High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"John Francis Polytechnic High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/los-angeles-unified-school-district/john-francis-polytechnic-high-school/7148"}