{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Montera Middle School","outOfStateSupporters":18.5,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":2046565,"projectId":9540164,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the influx of supplies for our ceramics program. The new clays, glazes, and tools allowed our students to get busy making goods for our Winter Artists Market, an event where students can sell their goods and network with students in high school CTE (Career and Technical Education) programs in our district and to see what those programs are like, while getting important business experiences in pricing and selling their work, engaging with the public, and making business transactions. By providing them with some materials, you allowed them to make more items to sell and to have more freedom with what to make in the lead-up to this event.\r\n\r\nIn this time of AI and screens, it's so important to give students more opportunities to make things with their hands. Students love ceramics and I think this is one of the unspoken things they do love about it. Clay is just clay. We may have more modern equipment and more modern clay and glazes these days, but the processes of working with and firing clay really haven't changed much since ancient times. There is something very primal about making something out of clay and then firing it. These skills can not be automated. AI can't make a better pot. Though they may not say so, students do enjoy \"unplugging\" a bit and spending some creative time in the analog art of ceramics. Thank you for helping them to have this experience.","fullyFundedDate":1758820711986,"projectUrl":"project/ceramics-for-everyone/9540164/","projectTitle":"Ceramics For Everyone!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Recco","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2046565_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y422&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1590627873837","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/recco"},{"teacherId":3961192,"projectId":9648285,"letterContent":"Our woodshop is large and has a cement floor. This really helps with safety and having enough room for students to work with equipment safely. But is also really echos and students sitting in the back can't see the TV when we play safety videos, or career exploration videos.\r\n\r\nSometimes the best way for me to communicate to my students is to show them a video of a process, a technique, how to operate a particular machine or how to be safe and equipment that can keep them safe and how to use it.\r\n\r\nWith such a large room I hope that this large TV project will enable my students to see the videos I play.l","fullyFundedDate":1760464222835,"projectUrl":"project/i-must-be-in-the-front-row/9648285/","projectTitle":"\"I Must Be In The Front Row\"","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Runge","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3961192_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1475521568497","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3961192"},{"teacherId":3994407,"projectId":9617187,"letterContent":"Wow! Students just love Blue Lock! From the first day they discovered them on the shelves to today, our readers are moving from volume to volume asking for more. There's a line of students putting the next volume on hold waiting patiently for their turn to read this popular series. \r\n\r\nYour generosity means that our students have more choices of books that they really want to read. Reading for pleasure is so important to supporting literacy. One of our key goals in the library is to help students find books that truly interest them. Thank you so much for making it easier for them to find what they want in our library!","fullyFundedDate":1756517146420,"projectUrl":"project/lock-in-literacy-with-blue-lock/9617187/","projectTitle":"Lock in Literacy With Blue Lock!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rogers","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3994407_orig.jpg?crop=273,273,x0,y2&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753118605467","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3994407"},{"teacherId":3994407,"projectId":9312795,"letterContent":"A very late but heartfelt thank you for your generosity and support of our amazing readers! Manga and series have been so popular in the past few years and it's hard to keep up with supplying great choices to our students. But once the books are in the library, it's hard to keep them on the shelves!\r\n\r\nYour donations made such a huge impact on our students. Our wish list is full of manga requests and now they have more series to choose from -- both manga and chapter books. Giving them more options means that more students have access to books and of a greater variety. We work hard to help students find books that really interest them. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for making more choices available!","fullyFundedDate":1746509574893,"projectUrl":"project/more-manga-and-more-series-please/9312795/","projectTitle":"More Manga and More Series Please!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rogers","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3994407_orig.jpg?crop=273,273,x0,y2&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753118605467","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3994407"},{"teacherId":3994407,"projectId":9196476,"letterContent":"My apologies for this very belated note of appreciation. Rest assured that my students have benefited immensely from your generosity. Every day I see students run into the library before school to return the last book they read and pick up a new one. Because of you, they have so many more books to choose from.\r\n\r\nChoosing a book for independent reading is at the core of what we teach in our library. Students learn how to evaluate books so they can select a book that truly interests them, not just one that is assigned to them to read. The more books they have to evaluate, the greater chance that they will find a suitable book.\r\n\r\nThank you so much for making it possible for them to have a lot of choices!","fullyFundedDate":1742935570061,"projectUrl":"project/bring-on-the-books/9196476/","projectTitle":"Bring on the Books!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rogers","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3994407_orig.jpg?crop=273,273,x0,y2&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753118605467","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3994407"},{"teacherId":3961192,"projectId":9649714,"letterContent":"Students really get into making their projects but that means noise and activity. And the woodshop is a large space, allowing students to move to different areas where different equipment and supplies are located. This makes a rather cavernous space that echos. The cement floors are safe, but also reflect sound. Our special dust collectors and air circulation system also adds to the ambient noise.\r\n\r\nWith your help we were able to purchase a sound bar that enables us to amplify our projection system so that my students can hear various videos dealing with woodshop safety, techniques, methods, possible career paths and other instructional materials helping them to learn more about woodshop.\r\n\r\nWe just couldn't do it without you!","fullyFundedDate":1758822200015,"projectUrl":"project/lets-make-some-noise/9649714/","projectTitle":"Let's Make Some Noise!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Runge","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3961192_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1475521568497","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3961192"},{"teacherId":3961192,"projectId":9592315,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the wonderful support you have given my students and me! We are so thrilled to have some of the wood we need to make this year's woodshop projects!\r\n\r\nMy students will use the wood to make hand carved spoons, hand carved bowls, wooden game boards, animal note holders, marquetry boxes, bandsaw boxes, cutting boards and Adirondack chairs.\r\n\r\nYou made it all possible! After all, how can you have a woodshop without wood?\r\n\r\nIt is amazing to see beginning students making a woodshop projects on their own, learning to follow directions, learning hand eye coordination and learning woodworking techniques, beginning with hand tools and then moving on to power tools.\r\n\r\nIt all starts with wood! Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1756168537689,"projectUrl":"project/you-cant-make-sawdust-without-wood/9592315/","projectTitle":"You Can't Make Sawdust Without Wood!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Runge","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3961192_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1475521568497","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3961192"},{"teacherId":637213,"projectId":9185958,"letterContent":"I am so grateful to this community, for always showing up for my students. All of the materials have been used across various school years, as well as by me and my partner teachers. Our whiteboard practice time has improved, because my 8th graders have been able to graph lineqar equations in slope intercept form directly on the whiteboards. The chart paper markers were used for today's poster projects. I am able to print master copies of our tasks thanks to the Canon printer. \r\n\r\nOur work last year was so exciting to my students, that we even ended up making an \"advanced topics in math\" elective class, where we're preparing for Math competitions, and completing poster projects, solving puzzles, and more. This came directly out of the work we were able to do thanks to the generous gifts we received from Donors Choose. Thanks!","fullyFundedDate":1742923147037,"projectUrl":"project/middle-school-math-scholars-use-need-mor/9185958/","projectTitle":"Middle School Math Scholars Use Need More School Supplies!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Villela","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp637213_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1700599061433","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-villela"},{"teacherId":3961192,"projectId":9591784,"letterContent":"We are just getting started in the woodshop this year and my students have passed the safety test and started their projects. It is really good to know that we have the glue and glue brushes we need to glue our cutting boards and our marquetry boxes, a quality paint gun that we can use to apply a glossy finish to the bottom of our skateboards and to paint our guitars and for those that are adventurous, a specialty card scraper that will help students clean up excess glue from the juice grove that they rout into their cutting boards. All of these things are necessary to make or take our projects to the next level.\r\n\r\nThank you for your support, we couldn't do this without you!","fullyFundedDate":1756084660946,"projectUrl":"project/important-supplies-to-make-the-shop-read/9591784/","projectTitle":"Important Supplies to Make the Shop Ready","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Runge","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3961192_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1475521568497","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3961192"},{"teacherId":2046565,"projectId":9152094,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your thoughtful support for our Media Arts program. We needed some iPad cases to protect our new technology from drops, falls, and bumps, and these cases have been ideal! They're protective without looking like \"little kid' cases so my students still feel professional when working with these iPads. \r\n\r\nThe styli are very popular with students. They are enjoying learning how to make digital art and having a responsive stylus really helps with that. All together, this is helping students to learn how to use technology to create, not just to consume content. \r\n\r\nThanks again for all your support! Without you, we couldn't have this program.","fullyFundedDate":1742965152760,"projectUrl":"project/help-protect-our-tech/9152094/","projectTitle":"Help Protect Our Tech","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Recco","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2046565_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y422&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1590627873837","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/recco"},{"teacherId":2046565,"projectId":8559242,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping us reach our goals with our new Media Arts program! We were able to purchase some lighting and supplies to launch our program and they have already been put to good use. Our light box has actually been used by more than just Media Arts -- our ceramics students were able to photograph their artwork in a professional way so they can show off every gorgeous detail of their work. \r\n\r\nWe are just now launching a new school year with year 2 for our Media Arts program, and we will be using the supplies to do some professional portraits and product marketing photos. I'm excited to see students taking the work a bit further this year. The supplies you helped us get will carry us into this new school year! Thanks again!","fullyFundedDate":1723647921507,"projectUrl":"project/lights-camera-media-arts-help-us-l/8559242/","projectTitle":"Lights! Camera! Media Arts! Help Us Lauch Our New Program!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Recco","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2046565_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y422&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1590627873837","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/recco"},{"teacherId":3961192,"projectId":9293832,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support of our Woodshop!\r\n\r\nWe are the only woodshop left in the district and we just couldn't do it without you! \r\n\r\nSupplies are very hard to get in our district, and we need them to finish up the year and be ready for the beginning of next year.\r\n\r\nWe needed sandpaper to sand everything we make, glue to glue up our projects like marquetry boxes and cutting boards. We needed the brown craft paper to preserve the original wooden table tops from glue damage and tape to secure our templates to our wood for template routing on the router table. We will use the router bit to shape the edges of the projects we make.\r\n\r\nMy students can hardly believe that people they don't know care enough about public education and our woodshop program to keep supporting to us!","fullyFundedDate":1746497282790,"projectUrl":"project/keep-us-woodworking-we-need-sandpaper/9293832/","projectTitle":"Keep Us Woodworking! 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