{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Leroy Greene Academy","outOfStateSupporters":38.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10113192,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of four new jazz charts by tenor saxophone performers and composers. This project features charts by Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, and Lester Young, three tenor saxophone giants. I am gathering charts to have a jazz music library set for when we start our after school jazz band next fall in the 2026-2027 school year. All four of these charts are wonderful standards and welcome additions to our library. Thank you for always support music education in our public school system!","fullyFundedDate":1776144114756,"projectUrl":"project/tenor-madness-for-our-jazz-band/10113192/","projectTitle":"Tenor Madness for Our Jazz Band!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10163134,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of five new \"Bubbert\" jazz compositions for our afterschool jazz ensemble. The \"Bubbert\" pieces are tongue and cheek composition that follow the spy \"Bubbert\" through an array of different places and therefore styles and genres. These compositions go from a 60's boogaloo to Brazilian bossa nova to western swing to lad back swing and straight eighths rock. Thank you are always for supporting music and arts education in our public school classrooms!","fullyFundedDate":1776109457645,"projectUrl":"project/bubbert-comes-to-lga/10163134/","projectTitle":"Bubbert Comes to LGA","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":9893709,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of three compositions that were requested by one of our seventh grade alto saxophonists. I love it when my students take a vested interest in what we play and band music as a whole and love to reward them when they do so. This student has been listening to band music on J.W. Pepper and watching videos of bands play the selections of You Tube and sent me an email with his favorites. While we had most of them, these were the ones that we were missing. Thank you for helping me collect all the pieces a young music student wants to play!","fullyFundedDate":1773855070262,"projectUrl":"project/total-request-live-2/9893709/","projectTitle":"Total Request Live #2!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10120889,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led towards the purchase of these beginning band charts for our sixth grade classes. Each semester, I have three sections of thirty to thirty-five of sixth grade beginning band. Some years, I have them play together and some years they each play their own pieces. Because of this, it is important to have a wide selection of pieces that only use the first six or seven notes, since I do not like to repeat works. Thank you for always supporting music education in our public schools.","fullyFundedDate":1773901760247,"projectUrl":"project/beginning-charts-for-better-starts/10120889/","projectTitle":"Beginning Charts for Better Starts!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10099914,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of four pieces for our after school jazz band. These pieces are great starting charts for us that handle different style of rock/funk (Chameleon), Afro-Cuban (A Night in Tunisia), blues (Kidney Stew Blues) and swing (Doxy). Variety is the spice of life and part of the mission of a jazz band is to play of a variety of styles, which these four charts will allow us to do. Thank you to all that donated to this project, you are helping me to keep it exciting for our students.","fullyFundedDate":1772919849668,"projectUrl":"project/a-chameleons-night-in-tunisia-with-the/10099914/","projectTitle":"A Chameleon's Night in Tunisia With the Kidney Stew Blues!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":9882660,"letterContent":"Thank you for the donations that led to a classroom set of mutes for my trumpet students. We are currently using these mutes on Brian Balmages' \"Etowah\". The students have been very eager to use them, practice, and play with them. I wouldn't have been able to do this without, so on behalf of my students, I thank you. Thank you for everything you do to support music education in our public schools systems, each and everyday. You are my super heroes. From the bottom of this band director's heart, I say, thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1772072848727,"projectUrl":"project/mutes-to-muffle-our-toots/9882660/","projectTitle":"Mutes to Muffle Our Toots!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":6137893,"projectId":9839179,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project! \r\n\r\nWith your support students were able to be introduced to a new form of printmaking called Gelli Plate printing and were able to experiment and explore this new material.\r\n\r\nThrough this process, students were able to create a variety of textures using printing techniques and then added hand-drawn elements and collage to create their works of art.\r\n\r\nThis particular style of art is called monotype printing. Monotype is \"one-of-a-kind\", non-reproducible artwork, that often creates a variation in a series.\r\n\r\nStudents were asked to \"Document the Everyday\" with their prints to create a series of artworks that relate to, and/or document, everyday items/activities/objects/actions in their lives.\r\n\r\nSome students opted to select items that are basic necessities while others chose to highlight special or sentimental objects that are important to them.\r\n\r\nThrough this process, students were able to learn a new artmaking technique while reflecting on their own lives and looking more closely at the world around them.\r\n\r\nThank you for supporting their creativity and hands-on making!","fullyFundedDate":1764616856415,"projectUrl":"project/gelli-what-gelli-plate-printmaking/9839179/","projectTitle":"Gelli What? Gelli Plate Printmaking!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Roadruck","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6137893_orig.jpg?crop=1408,1408,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757624868865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6137893"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":10083988,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of four new pieces for our after school jazz band. These four pieces include a winter concert classic (Frosty the Snowman), a blues standard (Blue Monk), a traditional jazz classic (Basin Street Blues), and a modal staple (Footprints). Band directors are always looking for a variety of styles and compositions to put together for concerts and this project helps us achieve that. Thank you for always supporting music education in our public schools!","fullyFundedDate":1771051687687,"projectUrl":"project/blue-frosty-leaving-footprints-on-basin/10083988/","projectTitle":"Blue Frosty Leaving Footprints on Basin Street!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":9964870,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of a classroom set of Standard of Excellence for Jazz method books for our after school jazz band. This method book series provides a basic foundation of jazz style grooves, articulations, scales, modes, and improvisation. On top of that, it has some fun, beginning, jazz songs in the style of rock, funk, swing, blues, bossa nova, and reggae. This series will give us a springboard for tackling harder charts down the road. Thank you for your contributions to our program.","fullyFundedDate":1771028112781,"projectUrl":"project/a-method-to-our-jazz-madness/9964870/","projectTitle":"A Method To Our (Jazz) Madness!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":9966573,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of these four jazz pieces for our after school jazz band. I have been facing some challenges retaining students from year to year, so I'm hoping having an after school jazz band will help us retain more students. These four pieces will be a welcome addition to jazz library. I have played Blue Train by John Coltrane and Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock many times with beginners and look forward to working on Killer Joe and Reunion Blues. Thanks once more.","fullyFundedDate":1771078343160,"projectUrl":"project/gettin-the-blues/9966573/","projectTitle":"Gettin' the Blues!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":9871681,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations that led to the purchase of these three concert band pieces for our students. This is the first of three projects that I am setting up based on a student email. In the student's email, he listed his favorite band pieces from his YouTube and JW Pepper research. I have made it a goal to obtain all the pieces on his email that we don't currently own. Most of these pieces should be playable by our students next semester. Thank you for all you do to support music education in our public schools. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1767129771576,"projectUrl":"project/total-request-live-1/9871681/","projectTitle":"Total Request Live 1!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"},{"teacherId":850959,"projectId":9849607,"letterContent":"Thanks you for your letters that led to the donation of three Band Quest publication band pieces. These are very unique pieces because they are modern, advant garde pieces written by a composer that spent a month with middle school students creating the pieces together. The outcome is that these pieces are a little bit more unique, creative, and out there than the normal middle school band composition. While these pieces are slightly harder than we are ready to play currently, we might be able to attempt these in a year or two.","fullyFundedDate":1765575713836,"projectUrl":"project/striving-to-fulfill-our-band-quest/9849607/","projectTitle":"Striving to Fulfill Our Band Quest","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp850959_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701636094777","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bmabry"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_103799","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":740,"numTeachers":40,"percentFrplEligible":51,"percentAsian":15,"percentBlack":13,"percentWhite":16,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":43,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"6 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"18.5:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":61.2,"schoolId":103799,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Leroy Greene Academy on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Leroy Greene Academy","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/natomas-unified-school-district/leroy-greene-academy/103799"}