{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Peach County High School","outOfStateSupporters":42.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9696078,"projectId":9843284,"letterContent":"You know your gift has made an impact when the first thing my students said this morning was--\"Oh, Cool! Can we sit on the couches?\" When students are physically comfortable, they are less distracted by discomfort and more able to sustain concentration during conceptual discussions or analysis of complex physics problems. Creating a comfortable learning space helps build a sense of belonging and classroom community. Students are more likely to engage when they feel that the classroom is a space designed with their needs in mind. This sense of ownership can lead to increased participation, stronger relationships with peers, and greater persistence when working through challenging physics concepts.\r\n\r\nOverall, incorporating couches and chairs into the classroom environment has already helped to transform the space from a traditional lecture setting into a collaborative learning environment where students feel relaxed, supported, and ready to think deeply about physics.","fullyFundedDate":1770913340221,"projectUrl":"project/physics-is-hard-why-should-my-chair-be/9843284/","projectTitle":"Physics Is Hard. Why Should My Chair Be, Too?","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Thomas","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9696078_orig.jpg?crop=1112,1112,x0,y103&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1735682836137","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9696078"},{"teacherId":9696078,"projectId":9675696,"letterContent":"Because of your generosity, my students are no longer just reading about simple machines — they are experiencing them firsthand. \r\n\r\nConcepts like mechanical advantage, inclined planes, pulleys, and levers can feel abstract and difficult for students to fully grasp from a textbook alone. Thanks to you, we are now able to bring these ideas to life through demonstrations and \"Quick Labs\" that allow students to see, touch, test, and explore physics in action.\r\n\r\nWhen students lift a load using a pulley system and physically feel the difference in force required, or adjust the height of an inclined plane and measure how it changes the effort needed, something powerful happens — the lightbulb turns on. They move from memorizing formulas to truly understanding how and why these machines make work easier.\r\n\r\nYour support is helping students:\r\n\r\nDevelop deeper conceptual understanding of mechanical advantage\r\n\r\nStrengthen critical thinking and problem-solving skills\r\n\r\nEngage in hands-on, inquiry-based learning\r\n\r\nBuild confidence in their ability to do real science\r\n\r\nInstead of asking, \"Do we have to calculate this?\" they are now asking, \"Can we try that again?\" and \"What happens if we change this variable?\"\r\n\r\nThat shift in curiosity and ownership is because of you.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in meaningful, hands-on science experiences for my students. Your generosity is not just providing materials — it is creating opportunities for discovery, excitement, and lasting understanding.","fullyFundedDate":1762881712192,"projectUrl":"project/science-of-simple-machines/9675696/","projectTitle":"Science of Simple Machines","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Thomas","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9696078_orig.jpg?crop=1112,1112,x0,y103&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1735682836137","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9696078"},{"teacherId":10327069,"projectId":10073725,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous contribution to my students. I was and still am blown away by how you rallied around us to support us. High school students rarely see gifts or supplies in a classroom, so when they walked in yesterday to see pouches full of COLORFUL highlighters they were thrilled. \"This is for us?\" they began asking. It was a really beautiful moment. They were immediately engaged in the learning process. \r\n\r\nWe were able to use these supplies to understand how to write an essay. When we debriefed at the end of class, the students talked a lot about how it was so much easier to see what they were doing when they were color-coding it. More than half of my students shared that this was the first essay they had ever written without the use of AI. I will never forget seeing the pride on their faces after turning in their best work. They began begging, \"Please grade this!\" What student ASKS for a teacher to grade an essay? I assure you, I have never been happier to read 91 essays! Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.","fullyFundedDate":1770020037823,"projectUrl":"project/brighten-up-our-research/10073725/","projectTitle":"Brighten Up Our Research","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Grimes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10327069_orig.jpg?crop=1106,1106,x7,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1770014718350","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10327069"},{"teacherId":9432882,"projectId":9703697,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation of headphones, a bookshelf, and numerous books for our inclusive classroom library. Your support has made a meaningful impact on my students. They are excited to choose books that interest them, and access to audiobooks has helped increase engagement and comprehension. I have noticed a clear growth in their enthusiasm for reading and their confidence as learners.\r\n\r\nHaving physical books in their hands has also made a powerful difference. Students enjoy turning the pages, tracking their place, and feeling ownership over the books they select. For many learners, especially those who struggle with reading, holding a real book while listening to audio support helps them stay focused and better understand the text.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in our classroom and supporting our students' love of reading. Your generosity has truly enhanced our learning environment.","fullyFundedDate":1761432596179,"projectUrl":"project/accessible-reading-for-all-creating-an/9703697/","projectTitle":"Accessible Reading for All: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Merrill","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9432882_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1722612601908","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9432882"},{"teacherId":6705677,"projectId":9710247,"letterContent":"Thank you for all of the chemistry supplies for my classroom. We have been able to expand our labs and teacher demos for our students this semester with your support. It's great that there are so many people willing to pour into our students, especially in the sciences.\r\nNext semester, I will have even more labs planned with a new class of students coming in. I think the 10 chemical reaction demos will be a huge hit amongst the students. We appreciate all that you have done for us. Thank you for your love if chemistry and willing to give back.","fullyFundedDate":1758768747199,"projectUrl":"project/chemistry-lab-equipment/9710247/","projectTitle":"Chemistry Lab Equipment","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Chancellor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6705677_orig.jpg?crop=720,720,x320,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1628446781282","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dchanpchs"},{"teacherId":6705677,"projectId":9697242,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your contributions to my forensic science class. Getting these consoles and games has allowed me to revolutionize how students learn about forensics in a virtual environment. The students seem to love the cases we have played thus far.\r\nI cannot thank you all enough for your support of innovative teaching. I hope to expand the use of these consoles to my other courses such as chemistry if I can find reputable games to use that support concepts taught in class. My seniors will have a memorable experience about their science class for many years to come.","fullyFundedDate":1757553390308,"projectUrl":"project/sherlock-holmes-forensics-2/9697242/","projectTitle":"Sherlock Holmes Forensics #2","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Chancellor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6705677_orig.jpg?crop=720,720,x320,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1628446781282","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dchanpchs"},{"teacherId":10073732,"projectId":9779064,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation. This kids are having so much fun with these dry erase boards. We are breaking up into groups and using them for our vocabulary games and pop quiz games before an exam. \r\n\r\nOur latest game was a jeopardy style review game for our upcoming final. The kids are having the nest time trying to be the first group to write the correct answers.\r\n\r\nMy step is to design an \"Around the World Muder Mystery\" I want the kids to use the dry erase board to interact with the activity and figure out the history based answers.","fullyFundedDate":1762266382268,"projectUrl":"project/literacy-skills-with-dry-erase-boards/9779064/","projectTitle":"Literacy Skills with Dry Erase Boards","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Burgess","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10073732_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1752168576177","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10073732"},{"teacherId":5205534,"projectId":9708056,"letterContent":"My classroom at my high school is the only classroom that provides flexible seating. I have bean bags, high top tables, wobble stools, standing desks, and yoga chairs. My room, is bright, cheery and always engaging. We swap desks around and change up seats every month so students get to try different seating arrangements and discover what they need to focus and engage. Allowing students these choices and changing the arrangements keeps students excited about coming to class. That is a big part of the apathy battle we fight as teachers. If students are willing to come to class they will usually be willing to learn. Thank you so much for making my room a happy and safe place for students to learn.","fullyFundedDate":1758654179666,"projectUrl":"project/flexible-seating-and-choice-in-a-high-sc/9708056/","projectTitle":"Flexible Seating and Choice in a High School Science Class.","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. George","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5205534_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1519751822464","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5205534"},{"teacherId":5205534,"projectId":9707847,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing me with the funding to purchase logic puzzles for my students. I use these puzzles in several situations. I give these to students who finish early, need to fidget or want something to challenge themselves at home. I keep them in Ziploc bags and students can check them out and return them in the morning. I have a student that completed them all in three weeks. I love thinking that he went home to put that puzzle together instead of surfing social media. \r\nOther teachers found out I did this grant and we have been swapping puzzles so that the kids always have new puzzles. I even did a very short professional development talking to teachers about teaching students to problem solve and think critically. \r\n\r\n\r\nThank you so much for funding this so students can engage their minds.","fullyFundedDate":1758636509910,"projectUrl":"project/students-need-to-learn-to-problem-solve/9707847/","projectTitle":"Students Need to Learn to Problem Solve and Think Critically","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. George","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5205534_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1519751822464","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5205534"},{"teacherId":9824288,"projectId":9204265,"letterContent":"We would like to sincerely thank you for granting out request for water, snacks, and the other items. This really helped to motivate students in addition to serve the students on the days that they just needed a light snack and water to hold them until lunch or for the long bus ride home after school. \r\n\r\n I was able to loan out the TI-84 CE Python graphing calculators to students so they could practice for their upcoming PSAT and SATs at home. By having access to the calculators at home they could practice and be better familiar with the functions of the calculator prior to the exam. And it removed the stress of borrowing one on Saturday morning. Students gained the opportunity to be familiar and more comfortable when testing.\r\n\r\nDuring our lessons in Geometry on Angle Pair relationships and Angles in Triangles, the colored task cards helped differentiate for the students which provided context and real life view of the scenarios. This helped with problem solving for many of the students. That aspect of trying to imagine what was going on was brought to life.","fullyFundedDate":1753088748173,"projectUrl":"project/our-journey-of-mathn-on-the-move/9204265/","projectTitle":"Our Journey of Math'N on the Move!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. T Evans","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9824288_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1731266332614","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9824288"},{"teacherId":10073732,"projectId":9453546,"letterContent":"I can't thank you enough for the donations of the notebooks. My students use these as historian journals. I'd like to implement literature standards within my world history classroom. I found the best way to do that is to get them to write. They have a question of the day at the end of every day to answer and they have to find the main theme of our lesson. They have to write it in a proper paragraph form citing their sources,the same way a historian would do.\r\n\r\nMy students loved receiving these notebooks. They were tired of having to rip out sheets of paper and turn those in. It's hard to keep up with and these notebooks keep them extremely organized.\r\n\r\nMy students are learning how to write properly and with that, they are developing important critical thinking skills. My students and I appreciate your selflessness and your donation to their future.","fullyFundedDate":1754362004059,"projectUrl":"project/historian-journals/9453546/","projectTitle":"Historian Journals","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Burgess","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10073732_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1752168576177","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10073732"},{"teacherId":5205534,"projectId":9682824,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to my classroom. Your donation went to the purchase of three wobble stools. These stools do so much for my classroom. It makes it bright and colorful. It gives students the opportunity to wiggle and move without disrupting the class, and it gives students a choice within their classroom environment. This all supports a new initiative in schools called social emotional learning. Elementary schools are amazing at this but we need a lot more work here at the high school. \r\n\r\n I work really hard at developing a classroom environment that incorporates, warmth and choice into my lessons. There is no way I could afford to do this without you as a donor. I am so grateful to you and Donor's choose for making this a possibility. My students deserve a wonderful experience in science and your donations help make this possible.","fullyFundedDate":1757553389973,"projectUrl":"project/flexible-seating-in-a-high-school-settin/9682824/","projectTitle":"Flexible Seating in a High School Setting","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. George","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5205534_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1519751822464","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5205534"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_50317","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":1162,"numTeachers":60,"percentFrplEligible":68,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":50,"percentWhite":29,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":16,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"19.4:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"RURAL","ncesMetroType":"RURAL_FRINGE"},"inStateSupporters":58.0,"schoolId":50317,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Peach County High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Peach County High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/georgia/peach-county-school-district/peach-co-high-school/50317"}