{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Park City Magnet School","outOfStateSupporters":35.4,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":248876,"projectId":10086625,"letterContent":"The students were very excited to have access to ABCya.com again. The website provides many fun educational games that the students really enjoy, including holiday specific ones. More importantly it provides activities across many subjects that can be used across many grades. It offers educational opportunities for younger and special needs students that are at their skill level. \r\nThe students really enjoy going on this website and I enjoy being able to use it to supplement my lessons, in a way that keeps the students engaged while they are learning. \r\nThank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1776096815309,"projectUrl":"project/abcya-succeed/10086625/","projectTitle":"ABCya Succeed","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Blaszczynski","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp248876_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1457217227536","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/cblasz"},{"teacherId":2871783,"projectId":10260598,"letterContent":"What a difference these steel tongue drums have made for my special needs students! Many of the children using them are nonverbal or have limited verbal communication, but their excitement and curiosity were clear from the moment they saw the instruments and heard their beautiful sounds. Their joyful music-making started immediately, without the challenges that often come with learning a traditional instrument.\r\n\r\nWe've been using the drums to explore melodies, create accompaniments, practice rhythm patterns, and make music together as an ensemble. Students' playing reinforces their ability to maintain a steady pulse, which is an important skill that also supports language and reading development. They're also practicing self-control through careful handling of the instruments and mallets, adjusting their volume, and responding to changes in musical dynamics.\r\n\r\nOne of my favorite moments came when a first-grade student with special needs created a particularly sensitive and expressive melodic improvisation. With no restrictions or technical demands to manage, she was free to concentrate on making music. Her natural musical ability came through so clearly in the melody she created. It was one of those moments that reminds me why providing the right instruments and opportunities can make a difference.\r\n\r\nWhile most students are concentrating on their own playing, I've been encouraged to see a few demonstrate an awareness of others, even taking the initiative to help a classmate. These small but meaningful steps toward musical collaboration give us something to build on.\r\n\r\nAs we continue, we'll build on these experiences through more improvisation, melodic exploration, and ensemble playing. Students will have opportunities to take the lead, create their own musical ideas, and become more independent and confident musicians.\r\n\r\nThank you for making these experiences possible! Your generosity has given my students more than a new set of instruments. You've provided a way for them to express themselves, work together, and experience the satisfaction of making music, each in their own way.","fullyFundedDate":1778599323786,"projectUrl":"project/thinking-outside-the-box-where-every-st/10260598/","projectTitle":"Thinking Outside the Box: Where Every Student Finds Musical Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Linda Gaboardi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2871783_orig.jpg?crop=1440,1440,x243,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1696617340514","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/linda-gaboardi"},{"teacherId":6900453,"projectId":10138794,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating copies of Radium Girls: The Young Readers' Edition by Kate Moore to my advanced comprehension students. Your generosity gave my students far more than another book to read. Radium Girls gave them the opportunity to connect deeply with a true story about courage, injustice, and the pursuit of justice. Following Grace Fryer, Catherine Donohue, Mollie Maggia, and the other dial painters, students saw how young women who believed their work was safe were ultimately forced to fight for accountability after becoming seriously ill from radium exposure. As we watched Grace pursue legal action and Catherine continue fighting despite her declining health, we returned again and again to one important question: What should you do when the people in power refuse to admit they have hurt you? That question led to some of our most meaningful conversations about courage, responsibility, and justice.\r\n\r\nThe book also became an incredible vehicle for strengthening students' comprehension skills. Students identified themes by tracing the women's experiences throughout the story, debated the motivations of characters and company officials, used context clues to understand unfamiliar vocabulary, predicted outcomes as the women's legal battle unfolded, and identified cause-and-effect relationships between the women's work, their illnesses, and the company's actions. Through project-based learning and Socratic seminars, students were required to support their interpretations with evidence from the text. They learned that strong readers don't simply understand what a text says. They question it, discuss it, and use evidence to develop their own ideas. What began as a reading lesson often became a much larger conversation about fairness, power, and what people owe one another.\r\n\r\nThis experience was particularly meaningful to me because I had the opportunity to be part of a production of Radium Girls. Being able to share that personal connection with my students made our reading and discussions feel incredibly special. I watched students become emotionally invested in Grace, Catherine, Mollie, and the other women and begin making connections between the injustices in the book and issues of social justice in the world around them. Many students left the unit genuinely interested in social justice, which was one of the most rewarding outcomes I could have hoped for. They began to understand that literature can help us develop empathy, question systems of power, and recognize when something is not right.\r\n\r\nThank you for making this experience possible. Your donation helped me create a classroom where students could become stronger readers while also becoming more thoughtful, empathetic, and engaged young people. I hope they remember more than the comprehension strategies they practiced. I hope they remember the courage of the Radium Girls and the importance of speaking up when something is unjust. Your generosity put these stories into my students' hands and gave them the opportunity to discover that sometimes, a book can change the way you understand the world.","fullyFundedDate":1773707886626,"projectUrl":"project/fueling-curious-minds-with-powerful-tru/10138794/","projectTitle":"“Fueling Curious Minds with Powerful True Stories!”","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Adams","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6900453"},{"teacherId":8470182,"projectId":10100756,"letterContent":"Thank you for the materials that you generously provided for our classroom. \r\nMy students created art that supported their learning in the classroom. They used their pencils and crayons to create art related to our monthly themes. They created a few projects related to \"All about me\" supporting our daily learning. \r\nMy students love their crayons and they use them daily, and they learned the name of each color. They are also using the pencils and crayons to learn to trace and write their own names.","fullyFundedDate":1778856707318,"projectUrl":"project/our-colorful-imagination/10100756/","projectTitle":"Our Colorful Imagination","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Salazar","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8470182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1673329490542","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8470182"},{"teacherId":118239,"projectId":10196690,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your contributions to our \"Friends Make a Beautiful Mosaic\" project!\r\n\r\nEach of my students filled a bag with all the fun sensory items that your donation helped to purchase. Nine different items went into each bag to fill a variety of sensory needs.\r\n \r\nWe then delivered them to our K-2 friends in two different classrooms. Giving to others is one of the best ways to make one's own heart feel happy :) I am grateful that my first graders were able to share these gifts of happiness and friendship with their peers.\r\n\r\nOur friends immediately started opening their bags and playing with the different sensory items. Both my first graders and their friends spent time enjoying, teaching, and learning about the different items.\r\n\r\nDouble thanks for allowing us the gift of giving and allowing our friends to receive. You are all so appreciated!! 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