{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Northwest Career & Technical Academy","outOfStateSupporters":48.5,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10399820,"projectId":10575018,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity and for supporting our project, \"Equipping Our Classroom for Success, Health, and Creativity.\"\r\n\r\nYour support means the world to us. Thanks to your contribution, our classroom is now better equipped to provide a healthy, comfortable, and inspiring learning environment for every student who walks through our door. Having these resources available allows our students to stay focused, express their creativity, and take pride in their daily achievements.\r\n\r\nWhen students see that people outside our classroom believe in their potential, it fills them with confidence and enthusiasm for learning. We are so grateful for your kindness and investment in our future.","fullyFundedDate":1788572966322,"projectUrl":"project/equipping-our-classroom-for-success-hea/10575018/","projectTitle":"Equipping Our Classroom for Success, Health, and Creativity","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wegener","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10399820"},{"teacherId":8126877,"projectId":10583356,"letterContent":"Your generous support has made a meaningful and lasting difference in our classroom and in the lives of our students. Thanks to your kindness, our students now have access to valuable resources, including a vacuum, cleaning gloves, an electric burner, mixing bowls, a comfortable couch, and a photo printer. These materials provide meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities that help students develop essential vocational, independent living, and workplace skills. More importantly, they allow our students to practice real-world tasks, build confidence, strengthen their independence, and prepare for greater success at school, at home, in the community, and in future employment opportunities.\r\nThe vacuum and cleaning gloves are especially helpful during our classroom cleaning routines and vocational lessons. Students use these supplies to practice maintaining clean, safe, and organized spaces while learning the importance of responsibility and attention to detail. Through these activities, students develop practical skills that can be applied in their homes, schools, community settings, and future workplaces. They learn how to follow directions, use cleaning materials appropriately, complete assigned tasks, and take pride in their work. These experiences also encourage students to become more independent by helping them understand the expectations associated with maintaining a clean and organized environment.\r\nOur new classroom sofa provides a comfortable and welcoming space where students can relax when they need a break from their daily activities. Having a designated place to rest helps us create a supportive classroom environment that recognizes the importance of comfort, balance, and student well-being. After completing vocational assignments or participating in hands-on learning activities, students can use this space to take a brief break before returning to their responsibilities. This addition helps make our classroom feel more inviting while supporting a positive atmosphere for learning.\r\nThe photo printer and cleaning gloves also contribute to the success of our student-run beverage cart. Students participate in preparing and fulfilling beverage orders, organizing supplies, and providing customer service. The photo printer allows students to print beverage orders so they can identify requests, keep orders organized, and practice completing each transaction accurately. These activities help students develop communication, organization, teamwork, problem-solving, and customer service skills. Students learn the importance of listening to customers, following order details, working efficiently, and ensuring that each order is prepared correctly. Through this experience, they gain valuable insight into the responsibilities involved in operating a small business and serving others in a workplace setting.\r\nThe electric burner and mixing bowls have also become important tools during our weekly meal preparation lessons. Students use these resources to prepare simple meals while practicing following step-by-step directions, measuring ingredients, mixing foods, and completing cooking tasks. These lessons provide opportunities to learn kitchen safety, proper food handling, cleanliness, and the importance of following\r\n instructions carefully. Students also practice working together, sharing materials, cleaning up after meal preparation, and taking responsibility for their assigned tasks. These are essential independent living skills that can help students become more confident and capable in preparing food for themselves and others.\r\n\r\nWhen our students first saw the new materials, they were excited and very grateful! Their enthusiasm was wonderful to witness because they recognized that these resources would give them more opportunities to participate in activities that connect directly to everyday life. Seeing their excitement reminded us how meaningful it is to provide students with the tools they need to learn through experience, explore their abilities, and practice skills that will benefit them long after they leave our classroom.\r\nWe will continue using these resources to create engaging learning experiences through our beverage cart, weekly meal preparation, cleaning routines, and other vocational activities. As students participate, they will continue practicing independence, responsibility, communication, teamwork, organization, and workplace readiness. Each activity provides an opportunity for students to strengthen their abilities, recognize their accomplishments, and build confidence in what they can do.\r\nThank you for investing in our students and believing in their potential. Your generosity provides so much more than classroom supplies. It creates opportunities for meaningful learning, encourages students to develop practical life skills, and helps prepare them for a more independent future. We are truly grateful for your support and for the positive impact you have made in our classroom. Because of your kindness, our students can continue learning, growing, and discovering new possibilities for themselves. Your contribution is helping us build a classroom where every student has the opportunity to participate, develop important skills, experience success, and take meaningful steps toward a brighter future.","fullyFundedDate":1788645845011,"projectUrl":"project/building-independence-for-post-secondary/10583356/","projectTitle":"Building Independence for Post-Secondary Students with Special Needs","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wroten","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8126877"},{"teacherId":9355263,"projectId":10573927,"letterContent":"I am writing to express my deepest gratitude for your incredibly generous donation to our classroom. The package arrived safely, and to say they are terrific would be an understatement. Thanks to your kindness, our classroom is now buzzing with extra creativity. The students are wholly enjoying the new markers and art paper. Having access to high-quality art supplies allows them to express themselves fully, experiment with vibrant colors, and focus comfortably on their projects without worrying about running out of materials. Thank you once again for your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1788537978781,"projectUrl":"project/creating-bold-futures-high-school-art-s/10573927/","projectTitle":"Creating Bold Futures: High School Art Supplies for Creative Minds","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Sparks","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9355263"},{"teacherId":4422136,"projectId":10504744,"letterContent":"When the packages arrived, my senior math students were genuinely excited to unbox everything. High school seniors don't always show open enthusiasm for classroom supplies, but seeing the bright zipper pouches, multi-colored labels, fresh dry-erase markers, and laminating sheets immediately sparked their interest. They loved knowing that these materials were ordered specifically to make our interactive statistics labs smoother and more organized. Having dedicated pouches and color-coded labels meant no more missing pieces or tangled sets of cards—everything had a home, and the students took pride in helping set up our new organizational system right away.\r\n\r\nThese new resources have completely transformed how seamlessly our active learning days run. Recently, during our units on sampling methods and principles of experimental design, students used our newly laminated, color-coded card sorts in small groups. Instead of spending ten minutes sorting through mixed-up paper slips, students opened their labeled zipper pouches and jumped right into classifying scenario cards into stratified, cluster, or systematic sampling, as well as identifying treatments and control groups in experiment scenarios. They used the expo markers and magnetic erasers on their whiteboards to sketch out experimental designs together, test ideas, and easily wipe away errors as they refined their reasoning. What used to feel chaotic and time-consuming is now clean, structured, and focused purely on mathematical thinking.\r\n\r\nLooking ahead, our next step is diving into complex data analysis and inferential statistics projects, including hypothesis testing as we progress through the curriculum. With these durable materials in place, I can continue creating fresh, color-coded matching activities and card-sort challenges for every new unit without worrying about wear and tear. My students are set up for success as we work through the rest of the school year with tools that keep them engaged and organized. Thank you so much to the Nevada Department of Education for investing in our classroom and making this active learning environment possible for my students!","fullyFundedDate":1788483845427,"projectUrl":"project/sorting-out-statistics-hands-on-math-ma/10504744/","projectTitle":"Sorting Out Statistics: Hands-On Math Made Organized","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. McGivney","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4422136_orig.jpg?crop=1113,1113,x48,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1651686493663","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mcgmath"},{"teacherId":10410006,"projectId":10573995,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping stock our classroom with construction paper and tissues. It might sound like an odd combo for a computer science class, but these supplies are changing how my students learn.\r\n\r\nComputer science can feel abstract, so we're using the construction paper to make ideas physical. Students cut, fold, and arrange paper to build flowcharts, map out how a program makes decisions, and act out sorting algorithms with paper cards. When they can pick up an idea and move it around, it clicks in a way it doesn't on a screen. The tissues are a quieter win. With a classroom full of students, having them on hand means fewer interruptions and more time on task.\r\n\r\nMost of our hands-on projects are coming up in the next few weeks, so I don't have photos to share yet. Next, students will be working in teams to design a paper flowchart for a simple program, then trade with another team and \"run\" it to find the bugs. I'll send pictures once we get going.\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in my students and for making learning more hands-on for them.","fullyFundedDate":1788531939396,"projectUrl":"project/extra-supplies/10573995/","projectTitle":"Extra Supplies!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Forbes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10410006_orig.jpg?crop=2100,2100,x0,y350&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1768588190319","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10410006"},{"teacherId":10401036,"projectId":10574586,"letterContent":"Thank you for making it possible to supply my makerspace for another year. With an active Kindergarten class, refreshing our crafting supplies every year is incredibly important. Our new pencil sharpeners have also been helpful for all of our students, as the Engineering students have been using significantly more colored pencils this year than last year.\r\n\r\nThe rotary paper cutter has also really changed my ability to care for our library books and the book displays have enabled us to increase our dynamic shelving substantially.","fullyFundedDate":1788552168639,"projectUrl":"project/nwcta-makerspace-supplies/10574586/","projectTitle":"NWCTA Makerspace Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Roos","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10401036_orig.png?crop=1992,1992,x0,y398&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1769814899557","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10401036"},{"teacherId":9354717,"projectId":10572684,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom! Because of your generosity, my students at NWCTA have been able to dive into hands-on creative projects that they wouldn't have had the materials for otherwise. Two projects in particular have really brought the new supplies to life: our \"Color City\" project, where students built out an entire miniature cityscape using color theory to guide every choice they made, and our rainbow mosaic project, where students pieced together small tiles and scraps of color into one large collaborative art piece. Both projects got students up out of their seats, working with their hands, and thinking critically about color, design, and teamwork in a way that a lecture or worksheet just can't replicate.\r\n\r\nWhen the materials first arrived, the reaction in the room was honestly priceless — there's nothing like watching a room full of teenagers get genuinely excited about markers, tiles, and paper. Several students immediately started sorting and organizing the supplies by color before we'd even started the project, which told me they were already thinking like designers.\r\n\r\nAs for what's next, we're planning to build on the skills students picked up during Color City and the rainbow mosaic by moving into a new unit where they'll apply those same design principles to a personal project of their choosing. My hope is that having had the chance to experiment with color and composition on a bigger, collaborative project first will give them the confidence to take more creative risks when it's just their own work on the line.\r\n\r\nThank you again for believing in my students and making these projects possible. It means more than you know.","fullyFundedDate":1788524388839,"projectUrl":"project/kindergarten-craft-extravaganza/10572684/","projectTitle":"Kindergarten Craft Extravaganza!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Smith","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9354717_orig.jpg?crop=1075,1075,x422,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1699303676115","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9354717"},{"teacherId":568938,"projectId":10575402,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity and kindness in helping us achieve our goal! We have been using our new resources with our Fancy Coffee Friday classroom business. We have been able to fresh grind coffee beans to use in our coffee with our new coffee grinder. We have also been able to practice our hygiene by wearing gloves when serving drinks. Another way that we have been able to use our new resources is to print custom labels for the drinks that people order to match those you see in famous coffee chains. We even got an e mail from one of our customers letting us know how impressed she was with our fancy labels!\r\n The students were so excited to see all of the products that were purchased for our project and wanted to know how we would use each thing. When I told them that people believed in our project so they helped us get the items they were blown away that people were so nice!\r\n The next step for this project are for everyone to learn how to use our new items and improve our coffee business.","fullyFundedDate":1788554440246,"projectUrl":"project/training-the-baristas-of-tomorrow-today/10575402/","projectTitle":"Training the Baristas of Tomorrow, Today!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp568938_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1462659666950","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-andersonpost"},{"teacherId":9355286,"projectId":10000338,"letterContent":"My students have been so much more calm and zen since getting the zen gardens. They ate the snacks so quickly too. We have some very hungry students. The games for my students to play went over so well and really applied to a statistics class. Thank you for also helping me reward my students with small prizes to encourage them to participate in class. It has been a great year and I am so proud of my seniors. Thank you for helping to make my classroom a safe and fun environment. It was a great year due to your generous donations.","fullyFundedDate":1768166489895,"projectUrl":"project/making-a-safe-and-fun-classroom-environm/10000338/","projectTitle":"Making a Safe and Fun Classroom Environment","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Symmonds","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9355286"},{"teacherId":1533371,"projectId":7979919,"letterContent":"Your donation has helped provide a more interactive experience for my learners. They can interact with documents online using the touchscreen, and it's been easier and less taxing for them to navigate their online learning modules. I think this has been a great tool for my students, and I sincerely appreciate the opportunity it has given us. \r\n\r\nThe magic keyboard has helped travel between classrooms and work with students in a wireless way that it has been easy to use them frequently and effectively.\r\n\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1699138849140,"projectUrl":"project/foster-creativity-and-engagement-with-d/7979919/","projectTitle":"Foster Creativity and Engagement with Digital Tools","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. Gratrix","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1533371_orig.jpg?crop=1897,1897,x0,y50&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1633399142610","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1533371"},{"teacherId":307571,"projectId":10372538,"letterContent":"I am so grateful to everyone who supported this project! Your generosity will give my students the opportunity to experience economics in a more hands-on and engaging way when the class begins second semester.\r\n\r\nOne of my activity that I am most looking forward to is plastic pennies to help students visualize the federal budget. Instead of simply looking at numbers on a screen or in a textbook, students will be able to physically divide up a dollar and see where federal money goes. I'm hoping led to some great conversations—and plenty of surprised reactions—as students discover just how much, or how little, is spent in different areas!\r\n\r\nStudents have started utilizing some of the supplies in my other classes. The clipboards have been used to get students up and moving around in my government classes. I'm able to set up station activities without having to figure out how students are going to record responses along the way. When my American Government students were building gummy bear governments, many of them used the poker chips as props. The curtain tiebacks have allowed for natural light to be used to illuminate the class as opposed to harsh overhead lighting.\r\n\r\nAs we get to our economics course, these resources will help us make more lessons interactive and meaningful. Students will continue using the materials to participate in simulations, work collaboratively, reflect on what they are learning, and connect economic concepts to the real-world decisions they will soon be making as consumers, workers, and citizens.\r\n\r\nThank you for taking an interest in my classroom and for believing in my students. Your support is helping me create learning experiences that go beyond notes and textbooks, and I truly appreciate the opportunity to make economics more engaging, memorable, and meaningful for my students!","fullyFundedDate":1784042148952,"projectUrl":"project/engaging-economics-is-essential/10372538/","projectTitle":"Engaging Economics Is Essential","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Ackerman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp307571_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1489582937099","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/m-ackerman"},{"teacherId":307571,"projectId":10221974,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to make these supplies a reality. Coming into a new school year with brand new supplies made it feel like Christmas! The cell phone holder has been fantastic to reduce the amount of distractions in class. Students come in and put their phones away right away. I have seen a huge increase in the amount of engagement and time students are on test.\r\nMy students and I are looking forward to review time when we will make use of the games. I have found creative ways to slightly adjust the rules of each game to make them into rigorous review for students while still keeping it fun.\r\nThe clipboards have been a game changer. I have been able to get my students up and moving more often. I've also seen students ask to use the clipboards in other activities as well.\r\nMy students also are thankful for the clock I've been able to put in front of the classroom with a countdown timer. They can easily see how much time is left in an activity and I can keep the activity on the board without having to minimize for a viewable clock.\r\nWhile I had originally asked for the file cart to house the cell phone organizer, it was the wrong dimensions. 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