{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Orem Junior High School","outOfStateSupporters":32.2,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":7395606,"projectId":9506803,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for fully funding our project, Thinking Mathematically: Tools for Inclusive, Rigorous, Collaborative Learning. Because of your generous support, our math classroom is now equipped with essential tools that help every student stay focused, organized, and engaged in deep thinking from the moment they walk in.\r\n\r\nMy students—an incredible group of middle and high school mathematicians—bring diverse perspectives, languages, learning needs, and strengths to our classroom. Thanks to your donation, every group now has access to refillable whiteboard markers, magnetic erasers, and caddies to support their daily work at vertical whiteboards, a key part of our Building Thinking Classrooms routine. These materials may seem simple, but they make a huge difference. They help groups stay in flow, communicate clearly, and collaborate meaningfully without unnecessary interruptions or barriers.\r\n\r\nYour support also provided a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card, which I've used to gather high-quality concept-building tasks, multilingual supports, graphic organizers, and extension activities. These resources allow me to better differentiate instruction, giving all students—whether they need more scaffolds, more challenge, or more choice—an entry point into rigorous, joyful math thinking.\r\n\r\nAlready, I've seen students stepping up with more confidence. They're building on each other's ideas, justifying their thinking with clarity, and showing real pride in their work. Your donation helped create a more inclusive and equitable classroom space—one where every student can see themselves as a capable problem solver.","fullyFundedDate":1758054548146,"projectUrl":"project/thinking-mathematically-tools-for-inclu/9506803/","projectTitle":"Thinking Mathematically: Tools for Inclusive, Rigorous, Collaborative Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-johnson-math"},{"teacherId":7395606,"projectId":9452040,"letterContent":"This project created joyful moments of connection and encouragement that have already begun shaping our classroom culture. With a wide variety of snacks, stickers, keychains, and fidget toys, I now have a stocked \"Bravery Bin\" and celebration stash that allows me to recognize mathematical risk-taking, perseverance, and personal growth in real time. Whether it's a student finally raising their hand to share, revising a solution after a productive struggle, or taking a leadership role in group work, I can immediately reinforce those moments with tangible encouragement that makes students feel seen and valued.\r\n\r\nBecause of your support, I'm better able to meet the social-emotional needs of my learners, especially those impacted by trauma, anxiety, or past academic struggles. The rewards—fun-sized but deeply meaningful—signal that math class is a place where effort is honored and mistakes are safe. With reinforcements ready and visible, I've seen an increase in student willingness to try, ask questions, and bounce back from setbacks.\r\n\r\nThis project also brought joy into our classroom systems. Mechanical pencils and whiteboard marker holders help students feel prepared and organized, while sensory toys and sticker prizes make feedback more fun and personal. These aren't just incentives—they're tools for building trust, persistence, and belonging.\r\n\r\nThank you for celebrating math bravery with us. You helped make risk-taking a little less scary and math class a whole lot more encouraging.","fullyFundedDate":1752980986327,"projectUrl":"project/celebrating-math-bravery-reinforcements/9452040/","projectTitle":"Celebrating Math Bravery: Reinforcements That Matter","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-johnson-math"},{"teacherId":7395606,"projectId":9293454,"letterContent":"The resources from this project have transformed both our physical space and our classroom culture. With 32 new clipboards and multiple sets of heavy-duty scissors, our students now move seamlessly into vertical work and collaboration without delays or limitations. These tools directly support our Building Thinking Classrooms model, where students work in randomized groups on rich, inquiry-based tasks. Every student now has access to sturdy materials that make participation feel dignified, consistent, and purposeful.\r\n\r\nThe rolling storage cart and clear storage totes have helped create an organized, student-centered environment where learners take responsibility for materials and group spaces. Each drawer in the cart has been labeled to support routines and promote executive functioning—especially for students with disabilities or executive processing needs—so students can spend more time thinking and less time searching.\r\n\r\nSmall items like invisible tape, mesh zipper pouches, and sandwich bags may seem minor, but they've become essential for maintaining and distributing materials for problem-solving stations, whiteboarding tasks, and group toolkits. We use these to store manipulatives, dry-erase supplies, graphing tools, and visual supports—key for supporting multi-lingual learners and those needing sensory-friendly scaffolds.\r\n\r\nThe rotating acrylic pen organizer now sits at the center of our main supply station, keeping writing utensils accessible and visible to all. This subtle upgrade reinforces student independence and collaborative care of our shared tools, contributing to a culture of shared ownership and equity.\r\n\r\nYour donation doesn't just fill our supply bins—it fuels a thinking classroom that honors all learners. In a room where mathematical discourse, visual modeling, and persistence are central to learning, every item you helped fund plays a role in helping students engage confidently and authentically.","fullyFundedDate":1747769186960,"projectUrl":"project/thinking-tools-for-a-collaborative-stud/9293454/","projectTitle":"Thinking Tools for a Collaborative, Student-Centered Math Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-johnson-math"},{"teacherId":7395606,"projectId":9261160,"letterContent":"Thank you for your incredible support of my classroom through our project, From Pencils to Power Strips: Equipping Problem Solvers. Because of your donation, our learning environment is now equipped with the basic tools and powerful enhancements we needed to ensure every student—regardless of background—can engage in rich mathematical thinking.\r\n\r\nThe high-quality pencils, erasers, and refills you provided ensure that students can focus on grappling with big ideas rather than worrying about access to basic supplies. These small but essential items help level the playing field for students impacted by poverty, trauma, or other barriers outside of school. They now come to our whiteboards ready to collaborate, create, and critique without fear of being unprepared.\r\n\r\nThe surge protectors and power strip towers are already transforming our ability to use Chromebooks in a flexible, student-centered classroom. Our Building Thinking Classrooms model thrives on movement, collaboration, and use of technology for exploration—but until now, device charging was a daily hurdle. Thanks to you, students can remain untethered, choosing where and how they want to think, communicate, and grow.\r\n\r\nThe magnetic clips and cleaning cloths may seem simple, but they are essential for maintaining our vertical whiteboard stations. In our room, the walls are working spaces—not decoration. Your support keeps our boards clean, organized, and in constant use as students engage in tasks designed for discovery, discourse, and persistence.\r\n\r\nEvery item you helped fund—whether office staples, labels, or a universal charger—plays a role in building a culture of responsibility, agency, and care. You've empowered over 150 diverse learners this year to see themselves as capable mathematicians. Our standards in Secondary Math 1 require deep engagement with patterns, modeling, systems, transformations, and proofs—and your donation has made the daily practice of those skills more accessible, equitable, and meaningful.\r\n\r\nOn behalf of my students and myself, thank you for believing in the power of math education and helping us transform a room of desks into a lab of ideas.","fullyFundedDate":1745877773199,"projectUrl":"project/from-pencils-to-power-strips-equipping/9261160/","projectTitle":"From Pencils to Power Strips: Equipping Problem Solvers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-johnson-math"},{"teacherId":7395606,"projectId":8968575,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation to my classroom and more importantly my amazing students. I have a wonderful batch of students who consistently work hard to learn difficult math concepts. This project provided me with some small and larger reinforcements to add some excitement to my math classroom. My students work hard every class period, but this project allows me to have small prizes about once a week for learning games and bigger prizes a few times a school year for teamwork and review activities.","fullyFundedDate":1740606640423,"projectUrl":"project/exciting-reinforcers-and-prizes/8968575/","projectTitle":"Exciting Reinforcers and Prizes","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-johnson-math"},{"teacherId":7395606,"projectId":8552265,"letterContent":"Thank you for your financial support for my classroom. This project provided my classroom with 60 individual student whiteboards and necessary supplies to use them. My students really appreciate the new materials and immediately noticed the replacements. My previous set of whiteboards was about 10 years old and after thousands of students had used them, they were minimally functional. My students were eager to use the new whiteboards and committed to helping keep them in great condition for many years to come.\r\nMy previous set had many usable boards left and they were passed along to my school's German teacher who is excited to implement more formative assessment using the old set of whiteboards. \r\nMany students this year and in years to come will benefit from your donation, thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1730815570235,"projectUrl":"project/clean-new-whiteboards-and-markers/8552265/","projectTitle":"Clean, New Whiteboards and Markers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-johnson-math"},{"teacherId":7395606,"projectId":8552253,"letterContent":"Thank you for your support! I work really hard as a teacher to provide effective, differentiated, scaffolded lessons and materials for each of my students. I teach 3 different courses this year and have about 145 students--creating every lesson from scratch is not possible. This project, along with some curriculum resources, provide essential funding allowing me to purchase supplemental materials to support my student's growth. \r\nThese materials allow me to pre-teach pre-requisite skills to prepare all of my students to meet grade-level standards at a high level. These materials allow me to supplement vocabulary instruction with bilingual materials to support my multilingual learners. These materials allow me to purchase high-quality extensions to allow my students to continue their learning and really challenge themselves. \r\nThank you for your support, I am able to do my job better because of projects like this.","fullyFundedDate":1730815682126,"projectUrl":"project/variety-in-math-class/8552253/","projectTitle":"Variety in Math Class","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-johnson-math"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_33328","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":975,"numTeachers":null,"percentFrplEligible":39,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":0,"percentWhite":51,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":39,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"7 - 9","studentTeacherRatio":null,"demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":false,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_SMALL"},"inStateSupporters":67.8,"schoolId":33328,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Orem Junior High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Orem Junior High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/utah/alpine-school-district/orem-junior-high-school/33328"}