{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Emerson Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":20.4,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9094209,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing these resources to my students. Thank you for providing them for me! Your generosity has had a meaningful and immediate impact on my K-5 students. Through this curriculum and its accompanying books and activities, I have learned concrete, student-friendly ways to break down complex social and emotional concepts so my students can better access them. \r\nFor example, one powerful change has been learning to intentionally \"pause\" and give students time to reflect before moving into instruction. We begin lessons by reviewing our \"group plan,\" which helps students understand expectations and feel more prepared to participate. When there are conflicts, students have shared language to identify whether a problem is small, medium, or big, and to reflect on whether their reaction matches the size of the problem. They are also learning that everyone has thoughts and feelings—and that others' thoughts and feelings may be different from their own.\r\n\r\nAll of my students benefit from the direct and explicit instruction from this curriculum. Rather than say something is \"wrong,\" or \"rude,\" which can make a student shut down. We talk instead about \"expected\" versus \"unexpected\" behaviors. This is just one example of shared vocabulary and it has been transformative. It allows us to address behavior in a calm, respectful, and instructional way rather than a reactive one.\r\n\r\nThank you for making it possible to serve my students in a way where they feel understood, supported, and empowered to grow socially and emotionally. I appreciate you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1746787322766,"projectUrl":"project/social-thinking-tools-for-connection-/9094209/","projectTitle":"Social Thinking: Tools for Connection & Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9609679,"letterContent":"Thank you from the bottom to the top of my heart for supporting my project! I feel that having these games has opened doors and just last week, we had a break through! With my most striving we work on Phonemic awareness, letter sounds and letter recognition every day. For example, we play with rhymes. When we sing \"Down by the Bay.\" I show my students pictures of a goat riding a \"boat,\" a snake eating \"cake,\" and a fly wearing a \"tie,\" etc. We use the rhyming dominoes to match pictures that rhyme. Everything is so much clearer with a picture. With the elkonin boxes, my students can see the whole (e.g. a picture of a cat) and the three boxes to guide them of the first sound, the medial sound, and the ending sound. Soon (I hope), they will be able to write the letters that correspond to the sounds. All these skills cannot be taken for granted and are directly connected with learning how to read and write. With the alphabet cards, my students are successfully matching upper case letters with lower case letters. This was not the case a few weeks ago. There are so many things that need to taught and retaught and when a child is engaged, willing to try, okay with making a mistake and motived to fix it, we have all won. I thank you with all my heart. My students thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1756267239894,"projectUrl":"project/games-for-striving-readers-engagement-a/9609679/","projectTitle":"Games for Striving Readers: Engagement and Practice are Key!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":270510,"projectId":9562090,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation! It makes such a difference for my students.\r\nThe new \"Cozy Corner\" has turned an unused section of our classroom into a beloved spot. Reading, working collaboratively, and just taking a break are some of the many uses of our Cozy Corner. The kids love having book clubs in the Cozy Corner-it really makes everything more comfy and more fun. \r\nIt also provides a place for kids to take a break and calm themselves down when school becomes too overwhelming. It is a quiet spot to cuddle with a stuffed animal and read a book if kids are upset.\r\nThanks you again for your generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1755183163116,"projectUrl":"project/a-comfy-corner/9562090/","projectTitle":"A Comfy Corner","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Barnes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/270510"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9609825,"letterContent":"Thank you, thank you, thank you! I don't know if I can really convey to you how such a \"simple\" tool such as an erasable pen makes such a tremendous difference to so many of my students. The majority of my students prefer to complete their assignments in pen. The pens feel good in their hands. My students can erase cleanly when they want to correct a mistake. The pens motivate my kids to correct their errors. The pens that we can refill have been the best. After I give a pen to a student, I tell them to let me know when the ink runs out and that I can only replace the ink if they have the pen! It's been very gratifying as well how my students treasure their writing tool. They bring me the empty cartridges. They have not lost them. For a number of my students, these tools have been a game changer in regards to work production and presentation.","fullyFundedDate":1757599173863,"projectUrl":"project/erasable-pens-are-power-tools/9609825/","projectTitle":"Erasable Pens are Power Tools","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9203514,"letterContent":"We are now well into the school year and your donation to build a sensory tools lending library has been extremely powerful. We are lucky right now because the learning specialists and the Instructional Assistants have a room to work with students if our students need a pull-out rather than a push-in setting. It was a former classroom so it is spacious. Inside the room, we have several learning spaces that could all be used at once. If you were to visit you would see students wearing noise reduction headphones, sitting on the wiggle seats, squeezing fidgets, using the sand timers, and reading softly with the whisper phones. Not only that, we can lend materials to other classes. Each year the needs can be surprisingly different. Teachers have borrowed phonics phones, wobbly cushions, and headphones. It is an amazing feeling to be able to say, \"We have those! Here you go!\" Thank you so much! Your donation is helping students regulate and focus!","fullyFundedDate":1746536045199,"projectUrl":"project/a-sensory-lending-library-for-classrooms/9203514/","projectTitle":"A Sensory Lending Library for Classrooms","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":639044,"projectId":9569493,"letterContent":"We are so grateful for your donation to our classroom. Each Friday my students enjoy 30 minutes of Free Choice time if they have completed all classwork and homework. This is a time for drawing, reading, games, building and more. \r\n\r\nEver since we received our new blocks have been put to great use! Students have built castles with spiral staircases and ramps where they race ping pong balls. Other students have challenged themselves to see who can build the tallest tower. \r\n\r\nJust as I had originally hoped, these blocks are consistently being used by small groups of students collaboratively while others prefer to build alone. The box was large and there are plenty of materials for the students to share. \r\n\r\nIn the upcoming weeks we are planning to use the blocks in design challenges and math stations. They are so versatile and I'm so grateful for this gift!","fullyFundedDate":1754933422695,"projectUrl":"project/build-your-dreams/9569493/","projectTitle":"Build Your Dreams!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Stuppi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp639044_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1515541528991","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/639044"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9609916,"letterContent":"I unpacked and organized the books as soon as they arrived. I can not emphasize enough how grateful we are to have our own copies of the books to preview and plan with. When my second grade group saw we had the same Cinderella book (In 2nd grade, students read multiple versions of the tale Cinderella and reflect upon how the culture, or setting, of the story influences the plot, setting, and characters) that their classroom had, they immediately informed me of this fact and proceeded to tell me excitedly about what they had read in class. Our task was to fill out a graphic organizer comparing two of the books. Having the books to refer to made the task happily doable. In the 5th grade, we are reading \"Seedfolks\" where each chapter is told by a different person in the community. In 5th grade we are teaching the students to back up their thinking with evidence. Having copies of the book to refer to is essential in this work. As well, having the books for our first graders as they explore themes of friendship and the chapter book Dyamonde Daniel for our striving third graders have also been essential. In short, we could not be nearly as successful without your generous donation. Thank you for supporting our students!","fullyFundedDate":1755723136692,"projectUrl":"project/literacy-adoption-we-all-need-the-books/9609916/","projectTitle":"Literacy Adoption: We All Need the Books!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9026056,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kind and generous donation to my students! We received the workbooks right before school ended. I gave workbooks or copies of the workbooks to a number of my striving students for summer enrichment. I was so grateful to be able to contact a number of my families about the work I was sending home for their students. My families were very receptive about having smart summer work being sent home to reinforce skills and the fact that it was in a smart, easy to comprehend workbook made it much easier for them to reinforce the learning at home. Now the new school year has started and I am once more giving my students these workbooks to reteach, practice and reinforce concepts. They are great for independent work and it allows me to keep a close eye on what my students are retaining and learning. Thank you so much. I love these books (and my students also like them)!","fullyFundedDate":1744219880394,"projectUrl":"project/explode-the-code-home-school-connection/9026056/","projectTitle":"Explode the Code! Home School Connections","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9612127,"letterContent":"We just received the printer last week and I immediately set it up and started using it right away! First, I printed beautiful pictures of my students and they were beyond delighted seeing their images during class. We have been working on understanding \"thoughts and feelings.\" For example, how we all have thoughts (easy to understand), but that sometimes our thoughts are not the same (harder to understand). With the students' pictures, I added some empty thought bubbles which helped some of my youngest students to grasp this concept. I also overheard my colleague teaching one of her students about compound sentences. I was able to quickly print a helpful resource (the \"FANBOYS\") and some exercises which helped the student successfully understand what a compound sentences are and how to construct them. It is such a tremendous gift to have this tool in our Learning Center and everyone is so excited to be able to personalize curriculum and to print necessary materials in color. Color helps our students. Having the technology to quickly respond to our students' needs makes is powerful. Thank you so much! Your generous donation will positively impact many students.","fullyFundedDate":1755702390633,"projectUrl":"project/print-in-color-supporting-learning-and/9612127/","projectTitle":"Print in Color: Supporting Learning and Behavior Tools","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9174045,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for my hours of professional development and reflection! Over the summer I watched (and rewatched) all of these on-demand courses. It took me a while as a number of them were over four hours long! It was especially meaningful due to the fact that I have many of the books that were referenced. My mind is swirling with all of my plans of how to teach social thinking concepts with my students from TK-5. School has just started, and I am so grateful to have this training front and center in my brain. I remind myself to be patient. Just today I reminded a number of my students to \"Think with your eyes,\" to \"Follow the group plan,\" and to \"Keep your body in the group.\" These small changes in how to redirect students make a difference. They do and I thank you so much for helping me be get better and better at my job.","fullyFundedDate":1742926477142,"projectUrl":"project/empowering-educators-enriching-minds-s/9174045/","projectTitle":"Empowering Educators, Enriching Minds: SEL in Action","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":9020958,"letterContent":"I love math, I love teaching math and when a child tells me that they \"hate\" math, it breaks my heart and makes me determined to change the narrative. When a student tells me that they \"don't like\" math or that it's \"confusing,\" I remind them again and again that math is all about a \"clear picture\" and if one's math picture is not \"clear\" it just means that we need to try another way to understand the concept. Having simple manipulatives (dice, coordinate graphing grid, clocks, dominoes, frames, items to count, etc.) are the best tools! They are tried and true, they are only dependent on teaching the child HOW they might make their picture clear and giving direct instruction on doing so. Thank you for the tools. They are the best. I don't need bells and whistles and neither do the kids. They need explanation, time, respect of process, and smart manipulatives to illustrate concepts. Your donation will brighten so many kids' understanding. We just received them and I use them all the time!","fullyFundedDate":1738952684576,"projectUrl":"project/build-the-foundation-with-math-manipulat/9020958/","projectTitle":"Build the Foundation with Math Manipulatives!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wang","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp11566_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565194813956","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kaielylola"},{"teacherId":11566,"projectId":8531394,"letterContent":"School started in August and I wish you could see the growth because sometimes it is so incremental, you don't see it right away. As fluent readers, we can take so many things for granted...For example, learning consonants sounds like /m/ for /t/ and identifying short vowels...it's automatic for us, but when the code starts to crack and the hard work of learning /m/ and /t/ and blending sounds with vowel sounds \"clicks\" for a striving reader, it is so powerful. I too remember reading about \"Dan\" and \"Ann\" and their dog \"Sam.\" There was nothing simplistic about it. \r\nThe other day my student who has been learning their sounds all year, found they could actually read one of the Tom and Ricky series books! At first they were intimidated to try, but when they saw they could also read a \"sophisticated\" big kid's book, they were all smiles. My Kinder student who has been working on learning her letters all year finally blended some of them into words with the decodable. With the materials you donated, I am reminded of determined patience and relentless teaching at the child's learning zone. Thank you so much for these materials. 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