{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"McCluer North High School","outOfStateSupporters":40.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":7263821,"projectId":9606878,"letterContent":"We are so appreciative here at McCluer North for the generous donation to our Apartment-Style Classroom. We never thought this dream would come true!! Our students work on life, transition, and skills to help them be successful in the future.\r\n \r\nThe plan is to use these items to build our students skills. We plan on them learning ironing, sorting, organizing, making a bed, preparing a small meal, doing laundry, and many other skills that will help our students in the future.\r\n\r\nOur students were shocked when the items arrived. They can't wait until they get to start using the materials. They love the area. \r\n\r\nWe plan on having the students rotate through the classroom and learn the skills. Our goal is that they get better with each skill and are able apply the skills in real life.","fullyFundedDate":1758841868493,"projectUrl":"project/apartment-style-classroom-for-transition/9606878/","projectTitle":"Apartment-style Classroom for Transition in High School","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vangilder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7263821_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720749307279","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7263821"},{"teacherId":7263821,"projectId":9605822,"letterContent":"Our students love love love celebrating their birthdays! We are excited that each of students will receive a special birthday bag filled with sunglasses, sensory fidgets, bubble wands, b-day bracelets, magnetic boards, and more! Each month we have a birthday celebration and have a snack and sing \"Happy Birthday\"! We will now be able to give each child their own birthday bag to celebrate too!\r\nWe will continue this tradition, using the supplies you donated, to celebrate each child's birthday.\r\nWe could not have done this without your help. We are so thankful for donors, like you, who help to make each child's life special and memorable.","fullyFundedDate":1758841868742,"projectUrl":"project/its-my-birthday-and-ill-celebrate-if-i/9605822/","projectTitle":"It’s My Birthday and I’ll Celebrate if I Want To!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vangilder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7263821_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720749307279","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7263821"},{"teacherId":10081468,"projectId":9467741,"letterContent":"My students love the lighting and headphones. They want the regular lights off 75% of the time. This has created a more cozy classroom effect. \r\n\r\nThe use of the headphones has made watching video instruction less distracting to all of the student's. Since my classroom sometimes has up to 18 students having headphone keeps everything quiet in the room. This is great since everyone is usually working on something different.\r\nThis helps with a lot if the distractions.\r\n\r\nThank you so much! We really appreciate your love and support.","fullyFundedDate":1754275360901,"projectUrl":"project/bright-minds-clear-sound/9467741/","projectTitle":"Bright Minds, Clear Sound","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Williams","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10081468"},{"teacherId":7263821,"projectId":9290789,"letterContent":"We love all of the items we received for our evolving community mural. We plan on using all of the items to create a mural in our area for our Seniors to add to each year that they graduate from our program. We love that our students feel a sense of community in our school. It is because of you that we were able to do this for them. \r\n\r\nOur students will add their handprint and name to the mural when they graduate from our program. We also plan on adding some other things to our evolving mural, like a garden of flowers and plants and other things that make the area welcoming. We can't wait to see how it turns out!\r\n\r\nI have included the start to our mural. When our students seen the materials (paint brushes, paints, drop cloths, and more) they were even more excited to see what this mural evolves into.\r\n\r\nThanks again!!!!","fullyFundedDate":1754525635991,"projectUrl":"project/evolving-community-mural/9290789/","projectTitle":"Evolving Community Mural","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vangilder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7263821_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720749307279","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7263821"},{"teacherId":2871525,"projectId":4043566,"letterContent":"Thank you so much to everyone who donated & make my wish of access to breakout a reality! \r\n\r\nMy students really enjoyed making reviews more interactive using our breakout kit & the access to the breakout website. \r\n\r\nI also went and bought some extra locks and lock boxes from a local hardware store to make additional kits. This allowed my students to race to a final clue/box. They loved the added competition this added and worked harder to learn the material in order to be crowed the class winners!","fullyFundedDate":1557194608479,"projectUrl":"project/biologyscience-breakout/4043566/","projectTitle":"Biology/Science BREAKOUT!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Schnettler","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2871525_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753140944503","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bschnettler"},{"teacherId":2203042,"projectId":8940557,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity and support for the McCluer North Esports Team. Your donations gave us necessary game controllers so gamers could compete at the same time. The controllers also made it easier to learn some new games that we might compete in next year. In addition, the trophies and snacks were great rewards to motivate the gamers. More importantly, your donations made our team feel seen and valued.\r\n\r\nThe team has had a great year of competition in several different games. In fact, 2 of our gamers were ranked in the Missouri top 10 for SSBU Solos last December, and our varsity SSBU Crew has won our section and will progress to the state playoffs. We have become more competitive and several gamers have earned scholarships to continue their Esports careers at thee college level. But, most importantly, all of the gamers on our team had the opportunity to practice and improve life concepts and skills such as team work, goal setting, conflict resolution, personal accountability, self-advocacy, self-regulation, responsibility, and interpersonal communication.","fullyFundedDate":1733328261983,"projectUrl":"project/our-school-esports-going-to-state-again/8940557/","projectTitle":"Our School Esports Going to State Again!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Ferris","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2203042_orig.jpg?crop=2108,2108,x68,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1731461452255","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/vicki-ferris"},{"teacherId":7263821,"projectId":8976619,"letterContent":"Thank you for all you have done for our students in the McCluer North Essential Skills Program. We are overwhelmed by your generosity. Our students love to work for reinforcers and they now have drinks and snacks, and sensory toys to work for. You also supplied us with cleaning supplies that we can use, especially when sickness is going around. We love all the kleenex, wipes, and napkins. Sometimes our students need fidgets and tools to help them calm down and regulate. You also provided some ways that they can communicate their feelings and de-escalate when they are feeling anxious, frustrated, mad, and all those other feelings. All of the things were well-needed and a blessing to our students. \r\n\tOur students felt like it was their b-day or Christmas when the packages started rolling in. They enjoyed opening the boxes and seeing what all the donors provided for them. As I opened the boxes, they anticipated what would happen next. The joy and happiness that was in their eyes and shown with their smiles was priceless. \r\n\tWithout you and her giving spirit our students would not have the opportunity to have some of these things. We are so happy and thankful for all the things that we received. \r\n\tOur next steps are to continue using the reinforcers to encourage our students to follow classroom rules and demonstrate respectful and engaging behaviors so they can learn and to incorporate the sensory toys as needed, and to use the other resources to help in our school-based coffee shop for students with special needs, so they can learn job, transition, and life skills.","fullyFundedDate":1739374642454,"projectUrl":"project/sensory-incentives-and-cleaning-oh-my/8976619/","projectTitle":"Sensory, Incentives, and Cleaning Oh My!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vangilder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7263821_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720749307279","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7263821"},{"teacherId":9528400,"projectId":8663406,"letterContent":"Again thank you all so much for making this dream a reality. Students tend to get bored and disengage with the texts we are used to reading in the classroom to teach concepts like the Hero's Journey. Getting to allow students a choice in their reading opened up a world of possibility and engagement for them to grasp the concepts. A lot of free will was given to my students with this unit and for the most part they rocked it creating their own reading schedules for completing the novel by their assigned meeting dates, generating their own questions for discussion, choosing how they were going to showcase their knowledge of the novel and of the Hero's Journey. 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