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They're crossing that stage with something handmade, personal, and entirely their own, because of you.\r\n\r\nThank you for being part of their story.","fullyFundedDate":1778776367138,"projectUrl":"project/caps-color-and-celebration-seniors-mar/10231552/","projectTitle":"Caps, Color and Celebration: Seniors Mark Their Milestone in Art","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mejia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/heidi-mejia"},{"teacherId":8931761,"projectId":9699651,"letterContent":"The iPad has become one of the most impactful instructional tools in my classroom. In Algebra 1, I use it daily with the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum to annotate directly onto lesson slides, model student thinking in real time, and visually break down multi-step problems. Instead of students trying to copy notes as quickly as possible, they can focus more on understanding the discussion and engaging with the math concepts. At the end of class, I can instantly share organized notes and annotated examples with students, which has been especially helpful for students who need extra processing time, are absent, or benefit from visual supports.\r\n\r\nIn AP Calculus BC, the iPad has transformed the way I teach complex concepts such as limits, derivatives, and integrals. I can write naturally during lectures while projecting my screen, almost like an interactive digital whiteboard. Students love being able to clearly see each step unfold in real time, and many have shared that the digital notes help them review more effectively outside of class. Some lessons have also become much more interactive because students can come up and draw graphs, sketch tangent lines, or demonstrate solutions directly on the iPad during discussions. This has increased participation and confidence, especially among students who are usually quieter in class but feel more comfortable engaging visually.\r\n\r\nOne of the most exciting parts for students has been how much more dynamic and interactive lessons feel. The iPad allows us to quickly switch between graphing apps, handwritten notes, visuals, and student work samples seamlessly during instruction. Students who often struggled to stay engaged during traditional lectures have become more involved because lessons now feel more collaborative and visual. I've especially noticed growth from students who are visual learners and English learners, since the ability to annotate, color-code, zoom in on graphs, and revisit shared notes later has made math feel more accessible and less intimidating.\r\nThank you again for your great support to make all these happen! :)","fullyFundedDate":1757957123344,"projectUrl":"project/supporting-student-success-with-interact/9699651/","projectTitle":"Supporting Student Success with Interactive Math Tools","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Le","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8931761_orig.jpg?crop=700,700,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1674286046742","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8931761"},{"teacherId":1543810,"projectId":10235494,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generous support, our seniors finally had their moment and it was everything we hoped it would be.\r\n\r\nDuring an extended advisory period, students took to the quad armed with chalk and pure joy. The quad transformed into something extraordinary: a living map of dreams realized, splashed across the concrete in every color imaginable. \r\n\r\nWhat struck me most was watching students who are often quiet and reserved light up as their peers gathered around to read what they'd written. For many of them, this was the first time they'd celebrated their achievement out loud, in public, surrounded by the people who walked this journey with them. The chalk wasn't just decoration, it was a declaration.\r\n\r\nThank you for giving our seniors a moment to pause, look down at that quad, and see their futures written right there at their feet.","fullyFundedDate":1777905255734,"projectUrl":"project/chalk-it-up-to-success-seniors-paint-th/10235494/","projectTitle":"Chalk It Up to Success: Seniors Paint Their Future","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mejia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/heidi-mejia"},{"teacherId":1543810,"projectId":10190009,"letterContent":"When the fan arrived, my students noticed it immediately and were incredibly appreciative of it. On warm afternoons, when our broken AC would have turned the room into a swamp, my students are able to stay focused. We were deep in a unit requiring close reading and annotation, the kind of work that demands sustained mental energy, and I watched them actually do it. No restless shifting, no notebooks being used as fans. No heads down. Just students engaged in the hard, rewarding work they're capable of when their environment supports them.\r\n\r\nWe're heading into the final stretch of the school year which usually requires cognitively demanding work. Students will be on their feet, moving around the room, collaborating with peers. I'm excited to tackle it in a space that finally works for them instead of against them. Your generosity made that possible, and my students are the ones who will carry it forward.","fullyFundedDate":1776054407188,"projectUrl":"project/beating-the-heat-so-we-can-focus-on-lear/10190009/","projectTitle":"Beating the Heat So We Can Focus on Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mejia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/heidi-mejia"},{"teacherId":1543810,"projectId":10159083,"letterContent":"My students are ambitious, creative, hardworking young people who are preparing for college and careers and lives they are actively building. They deserve a space that reflects that. And for a long time, despite everyone's best efforts, the floors told a different story ; crumbs, dust, the accumulated evidence of a room that a lot of people pass through every day. Not for lack of caring, but for lack of time. There is never enough time.\r\n\r\nNow there is a small robot that handles it without being asked. It runs while we're gone. It finishes before we arrive. And my students walk into a classroom that is simply, consistently clean.\r\n\r\nI know that might sound small. But I've taught long enough to know that the condition of a space sends a message to the people inside it. A clean room says: you are worth this. Your time here matters. This place was prepared for you.\r\n\r\nThat's the message my students deserve to receive every single day, and because of you, they do.\r\n\r\nThank you for seeing the dignity in the details.","fullyFundedDate":1773774082562,"projectUrl":"project/small-robot-big-impact-keeping-our-cla/10159083/","projectTitle":"Small Robot, Big Impact: Keeping Our Classroom Clean and Healthy","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mejia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/heidi-mejia"},{"teacherId":1543810,"projectId":10152334,"letterContent":"So many of my students have grown up believing that reading is something other people do; people in different neighborhoods, with different lives. The books they'd encountered in school never quite sounded like them, never moved the way their lives move, never cared about the things they care about. So they checked out. Not because they couldn't read, but because nothing had ever given them a reason to want to.\r\n\r\nThe books you helped bring into our classroom are different. These are stories with characters who look like my students, talk like my students, and face the kinds of questions my students are carrying right now; about who they are, where they belong, what's fair, and how to keep going. I've watched students who roll their eyes at assigned reading reach for these books on their own. I've heard conversations in the hallways that started in the pages of a novel.\r\n\r\nFor most of my students, there are no books at home. School is the only place where a great story is within reach. You changed what that reach looks like in our classroom.\r\n\r\nBecause of you, my students have found something many of them have never had before: a book that feels like it was written for them.","fullyFundedDate":1773554781469,"projectUrl":"project/books-that-hook-high-interest-ya-novels/10152334/","projectTitle":"Books That Hook: High-Interest YA Novels for Every Reader","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mejia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/heidi-mejia"},{"teacherId":1543810,"projectId":10152255,"letterContent":"When I submitted this project, I hoped it would make a difference. I didn't know just how much.\r\n\r\nSomething shifts when a student realizes that history isn't something that happened to other people, far away, long ago but something they can reach out and touch. That's what this technology has made possible. My students are now sitting with actual primary sources: handwritten letters, census records, photographs, newspaper front pages. They're asking the kinds of questions historians ask, because for the first time, they have the same tools historians use.\r\n\r\nOne of my quietest students , someone who rarely spoke up in class , used our new resources to track down records showing how his own neighborhood was affected by redlining in the 1940s. He brought that research to class and led a conversation that no one in that room will forget. The technology didn't give him the words. It gave him a reason to use them.\r\n\r\nFor many of my students, school is the only place they have consistent access to tools like these. You helped make sure that gap didn't follow them into this classroom. Because of your generosity, my students are doing the same quality of work, asking the same depth of questions, and building the same skills as any student anywhere.\r\n\r\nYour support didn't just purchase a device it changed what's possible in this room. Thank you for investing in students who are ready to do the work, and who deserved the tools to do it all along.","fullyFundedDate":1773553232313,"projectUrl":"project/modern-tools-for-teaching-the-past/10152255/","projectTitle":"Modern Tools for Teaching the Past","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mejia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/heidi-mejia"},{"teacherId":28985,"projectId":9982884,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donations for our art projects. Students had a lot of fun with both projects- the heart key chains and the heart plushies. Plus, they learned some valuable skills like clay forming and sewing. They were really excited when they saw the activities and couldn't believe they would be able to keep what they made.\r\n\r\nOur library really would not be functioning the way it is without you and all the other donors out there. A huge component of libraries is the concept of a \"third space\" where people can come to learn new things and be themselves without the pressure to buy something or, in the case of students, get a good grade. At our school library, having activities and projects like this one make that \"third space\" concept a reality. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1767929450834,"projectUrl":"project/time-for-an-art-project/9982884/","projectTitle":"Time for an Art Project!","teacherDisplayName":"Mx. Hollis","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp28985_orig.jpg?crop=1895,1895,x876,y715&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1603081669436","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/booksyhollis"},{"teacherId":709714,"projectId":9958680,"letterContent":"Music has been the joy of my life, especially through the guitar program here at our high school. Watching students connect, create, and grow through music has been an incredible experience year after year. Guitar offers them a space to express themselves, build confidence, and find joy even on the hardest days. However, we are ready to take our performances to the next level, and we are in need of support to refresh our gear. Wireless tools and durable cables would ensure that students can continue to play comfortably and proudly on stage. With your help, we can keep the music alive and thriving for current and future students. Every contribution goes directly toward giving young musicians the tools they need to succeed and grow. Thank you for supporting the joy of music in our school.","fullyFundedDate":1765835851350,"projectUrl":"project/wireless-freedom-for-student-performers/9958680/","projectTitle":"Wireless Freedom for Student Performers!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Delgado","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp709714_orig.jpg?crop=4000,4000,x1480,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723322192123","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/709714"},{"teacherId":709714,"projectId":9961140,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us bring leverless arcade controllers into our Esports lab. These tools are widely used in organized competitive play, and now our students have access to the same modern equipment they see in tournaments.\r\n\r\nFor our 30 high school students—nearly all from low-income households—this project removes barriers to high-level training. Leverless controllers provide ergonomic support, improved execution, and more consistent input precision, allowing students to develop timing, spacing, and decision-making skills more effectively.\r\n\r\nYour generosity strengthens our competitive readiness and ensures our program continues to grow in both skill and professionalism. We are deeply grateful for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1765909842070,"projectUrl":"project/leverless-arcade-controllers-for-competi/9961140/","projectTitle":"Leverless Arcade Controllers for Competitive Esports Training!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Delgado","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp709714_orig.jpg?crop=4000,4000,x1480,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723322192123","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/709714"},{"teacherId":709714,"projectId":9956168,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support of our music program. These materials help us to put on two concerts yearly. Every year our resources dwindle and we must find ways to replenish them.\r\n\r\nOften, arts funding is the hardest to come by. But with organizations like Donorschoose and supporters from around the community we find ways to make the impossible, possible.\r\n\r\nWe hope that the music we create reverberates through the school, clouds and sky and reaches your ears somewhere out there. We are entirely thankful.","fullyFundedDate":1765656344916,"projectUrl":"project/spring-music-festival-performance-drum/9956168/","projectTitle":"Spring Music Festival Performance: Drum Pedal, Guitar Strings, and Sticks!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Delgado","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp709714_orig.jpg?crop=4000,4000,x1480,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723322192123","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/709714"},{"teacherId":709714,"projectId":9940665,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our Esports team with new DualSense PS5 controllers. This may seem like a small piece of equipment, but for our 30 students, it makes a meaningful difference. Instead of sharing a single controller and waiting through long rotations, more students can now practice consistently and compete at their full potential.\r\n\r\nNearly all of our students come from low-income households, and many depend on our program for access to reliable technology. Having quality, dependable equipment ensures fair practice time, competitive readiness, and a more professional training environment.\r\n\r\nYour generosity helps remove barriers and gives our students the tools they need to build teamwork, communication skills, and confidence.","fullyFundedDate":1765583191124,"projectUrl":"project/a-new-ps5-controller-for-our-esports-tea/9940665/","projectTitle":"A New PS5 Controller for Our Esports Team","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Delgado","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp709714_orig.jpg?crop=4000,4000,x1480,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723322192123","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/709714"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_20880","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":679,"numTeachers":37,"percentFrplEligible":90,"percentAsian":2,"percentBlack":1,"percentWhite":1,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":93,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":2,"gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"18.4:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":84.0,"schoolId":20880,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Orthopaedic Hospital Magnet High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Orthopaedic Hospital Magnet High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/los-angeles-unified-school-district/orthopaedic-hospital-magnet-high-school/20880"}