{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Thomas Edison Charter Academy","outOfStateSupporters":23.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":4579,"projectId":10418083,"letterContent":"Thank you to everyone who supported our project and helped us secure these much-needed supplies! We are truly overwhelmed by your kindness and generosity. It means so much to know that there are so many people who care about students and want to see them succeed.\r\n\r\nWe go through classroom supplies so quickly, and these donations will help ensure that we are well-stocked and ready to focus on what matters most: teaching and learning! Having the supplies we need makes such a difference in our classroom each and every day. As everyone knows, keeping students healthy and safe is incredibly important. I want my sweet peas to stay healthy, avoid getting sick, and be able to attend school every day. All of the cleaning supplies will be put to good use in helping us maintain a clean, safe, and healthy classroom environment for everyone.\r\n\r\nThank you again for supporting our classroom and making a difference in the lives of students. Your generosity is truly appreciated, and we are so grateful to have you as part of our classroom community.\r\n\r\nWishing you all a happy, healthy, and wonderful New Year! ❤️","fullyFundedDate":1793194939129,"projectUrl":"project/fresh-start-to-new-school-year/10418083/","projectTitle":"Fresh Start to New School Year","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cook","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4579_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483641265104","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teca352cook"},{"teacherId":4579,"projectId":10642120,"letterContent":"Thank you to all the donors who helped us fulfill this project. My sweet peas and I are extremely grateful to be part of such a wonderful DonorsChoose community of altruistic people who choose to support classrooms! Thank you for making us feel so loved and cared for and allowing us to believe that there is still so much good in the world today.\r\n\r\nMiddle school students need a lot of concentration and focus in order to learn new skills, especially in math. They get frustrated easily and may need something to get them back on track. Nothing can perk up a sweet pea like getting some fruit snacks or popcorn or crackers! These snacks give my students the energy and focus they need to do well in middle school, and that makes my job just a bit easier. So thank you very much!\r\n\r\nThank you to everyone for supporting our classroom. Thank you for making this school year so special.","fullyFundedDate":1792626863387,"projectUrl":"project/middle-school-students-love-healthy-snac/10642120/","projectTitle":"Middle School Students Love Healthy Snacks","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cook","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4579_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483641265104","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teca352cook"},{"teacherId":1891526,"projectId":8498116,"letterContent":"I sincerely apologize that this letter is arriving to you so late (literally years later). But I would be remiss if I did not share how incredible this item you helped get me has been for my instruction and for student learning. THE ROOM DIVIDER IS THE GIFT THAT ABSOLUTELY KEEPS ON GIVING! The wall divider has provided countless hours of focused, targeted instruction in our school's learning center. \r\n\r\nOver the past two years I have met with 200 students inside our learning center. These are our most vulnerable students that need targeted support in order to reach their individual goals, and catch up to grade level. The room divider your donation purchased has allowed students to receive explicit instruction in a focused environment, free of distractions. My teaching and their learning would have been at a deficit had I not received this item due to your donation. In a room with 4 other educators and a rotating door of kiddos, this room divider has been the saving grace for our small group area.\r\n\r\nSo again- thank you for the game changing piece that helped transform our learning area into the best space possible for students! I am forever grateful!","fullyFundedDate":1721981082852,"projectUrl":"project/providing-a-focused-learning-environment/8498116/","projectTitle":"Providing a Focused Learning Environment for Targeted Reading Instruction!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cahill","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1891526_orig.jpg?crop=432,432,x0,y24&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1630625872085","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1891526"},{"teacherId":2771085,"projectId":10766667,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my classroom and helping my students grow into confident, successful readers! I am incredibly grateful for your generosity and for investing in my students' learning and reading journeys.\r\n\r\nAs a reading teacher, I work with students who have a variety of learning needs and reading abilities. My goal is to create a supportive environment where every child feels comfortable practicing, making progress, and discovering the joy of reading. Thanks to your kindness, my students will have access to noise-canceling headphones and reading pointer fingers to help make reading practice more focused, engaging, and successful.\r\n\r\nThe noise-canceling headphones will help students minimize distractions and concentrate on the words in front of them, while the reading pointer fingers will help them track words from left to right and develop important early reading skills. These simple but meaningful tools will support students as they build fluency, strengthen word recognition, and gain confidence in their abilities.\r\n\r\nOne of the most rewarding parts of being a reading teacher is watching a student who once struggled begin to recognize words, read a sentence independently, or proudly share their progress. Those little victories are big milestones, and your generosity will help create more opportunities for those special moments!\r\n\r\nThank you for helping me provide the tools my students need to grow, learn, and believe in themselves. Your support is making a meaningful difference in our classroom and helping my students take important steps toward becoming lifelong readers.","fullyFundedDate":1793194852147,"projectUrl":"project/concentration-station/10766667/","projectTitle":"Concentration Station!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bruno","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2771085_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1697083873538","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2771085"},{"teacherId":2771085,"projectId":10715744,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom and helping bring these exciting logic games to my students! I am incredibly grateful for your generosity and for investing in their curiosity, creativity, and love of learning.\r\n\r\nThanks to your support, my students will have the opportunity to explore hands-on logic games, including Kanoodle Shape Escape, Blokus, Animal Upon Animal, and Tetris Go Gamer. These games will bring so much excitement to our classroom while helping students develop important skills through play.\r\n\r\nAs students work through puzzles, balance wooden animals, and strategize their next moves, they will practice critical thinking, spatial reasoning, logical reasoning, and problem-solving. They will also learn the importance of patience, perseverance, and flexible thinking. When a strategy doesn't work, they will have the opportunity to try again, think differently, and celebrate the satisfaction of solving a challenge!\r\n\r\nThese games will also encourage students to work together, take turns, share their ideas, and cheer one another on. Whether they are working independently, partnering with a classmate, or participating in a STEM rotation, these activities will create meaningful opportunities for learning and growth.\r\n\r\nOne of my favorite things as a teacher is watching students build confidence as they discover what they are capable of accomplishing. Your generosity will help create more of those moments by giving my students engaging ways to challenge themselves, learn from mistakes, and celebrate their successes.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping make learning fun and for giving my students the opportunity to grow into confident, creative thinkers and problem-solvers. Your kindness is making a difference in our classroom, one puzzle and one challenge at a time!","fullyFundedDate":1793194870813,"projectUrl":"project/building-brighter-minds-through-logic-p/10715744/","projectTitle":"Building Brighter Minds Through Logic, Play, and Problem-Solving","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bruno","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2771085_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1697083873538","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2771085"},{"teacherId":2771085,"projectId":10715716,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom and helping bring our STEM project to life! I am incredibly grateful for your generosity and for investing in my students' learning, creativity, and curiosity.\r\n\r\nMy students love exploring the world around them, building new things, and discovering what happens when they put their ideas into action. Thanks to your support, they will now have exciting new materials, including PicassoTiles Interlocking Disc Building Chips, SpringFlower Flower Garden Building Toys, and PicassoTiles Hedgehog Building Blocks, to inspire hands-on learning and exploration.\r\n\r\nThese materials will give my students opportunities to build towers, create colorful designs, experiment with shapes and patterns, and bring their imaginations to life. As they play and build, they will strengthen important skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, spatial awareness, fine motor development, and collaboration. They will also learn to persevere, try new strategies, and understand that mistakes are an important part of learning.\r\n\r\nFor young learners, STEM is about so much more than science, technology, engineering, and math. It is about building confidence, encouraging curiosity, and helping children discover just how capable they are. Your generosity is making these meaningful learning experiences possible!\r\n\r\nThank you for helping my students become creative thinkers, curious explorers, and confident little engineers. Your kindness will make a lasting difference in our classroom, one creation at a time!","fullyFundedDate":1793194860190,"projectUrl":"project/help-my-students-build-create-and-disc/10715716/","projectTitle":"Help My Students Build, Create, and Discover!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bruno","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2771085_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1697083873538","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2771085"},{"teacherId":2771085,"projectId":10715659,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom and helping make creativity a bigger part of our everyday learning! I am incredibly grateful for your generosity and for investing in my students' artistic growth, confidence, and imagination.\r\n\r\nMy students are full of wonderful ideas, and having access to the right art supplies will give them even more opportunities to bring those ideas to life. Thanks to your support, we will have Paint Stix, Sharpies, and art storage and organization buckets to help make our classroom a more colorful, creative, and organized space.\r\n\r\nThe Paint Stix will allow students to explore colors and create beautiful artwork with less mess, while the Sharpies will help them add details, outlines, and personal touches to their projects. Our new storage buckets will keep supplies organized and easy to access, encouraging students to become more independent and take responsibility for their classroom materials.\r\n\r\nArt is about so much more than creating something beautiful. It helps children develop fine motor skills, build confidence, express their feelings and ideas, and learn that there is no single right way to be creative. With these new materials, my students will have more opportunities to experiment, try new things, learn from mistakes, and feel proud of what they create.\r\n\r\nYour generosity is helping me provide a classroom where every student has the tools and freedom to explore their imagination. Thank you for believing in my students and helping them discover their creativity, one colorful masterpiece at a time!","fullyFundedDate":1793194863821,"projectUrl":"project/little-artists-big-ideas-creating-a-cl/10715659/","projectTitle":"Little Artists, Big Ideas: Creating a Classroom Full of Color!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bruno","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2771085_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1697083873538","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2771085"},{"teacherId":1891526,"projectId":10615027,"letterContent":"Our students in the learning center now have full bellies thanks to your donation of Healthy Snacks! In almost every single group there is a child who has either come to school hungry, or is ending the day starving- and now they have had access to a healthy snack to help get them through the day! \r\n\r\nYou have helped students who typically do not have access to healthy snacks get something nourishing to eat. They no longer find it hard to focus since they have efficient fuel. They were particularly grateful for the dried mangoes and fruit bars.\r\n\r\nThese healthy snacks have been the positive difference to help them get through the school day successfully. We are so grateful to you for your donation to make learning accessible and healthy! Thank you from our full bellies!","fullyFundedDate":1789651099466,"projectUrl":"project/healthy-snacks-for-all/10615027/","projectTitle":"Healthy Snacks for All!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cahill","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1891526_orig.jpg?crop=432,432,x0,y24&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1630625872085","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1891526"},{"teacherId":2771085,"projectId":10684867,"letterContent":"The students in my school love to read, and I love seeing their enthusiasm and enjoyment when finishing a book. A lot of them would come into the library and update me on which books they're on in a series. However, some series were not complete in my library. Thats where you stepped in. \r\n\r\nMy younger students are particularly in love with any book from the Piggie and Elephant Series.\r\nMy students are truly ecstatic that we recieved these books and have taken them home to enjoy for years to come with their own families.","fullyFundedDate":1793194974807,"projectUrl":"project/books-for-beginning-readers/10684867/","projectTitle":"Books for Beginning Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bruno","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2771085_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1697083873538","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2771085"},{"teacherId":2771085,"projectId":10615039,"letterContent":"The students in my school have loved to read, and I love seeing their enthusiasm and enjoyment when finishing a book. A lot of them would come into the library and update me on which books they're on in a series. However, some series were not complete in my library. \r\n\r\nThe books from the series: The Investagators, Cat Kid, Babysitters Club and Smile are books that multiple students kept asking about, but unfortunately, I did not have these in my library. Now that we have these books our students are ecstatic to receive these missing books and will be able to finish reading the series that they started.","fullyFundedDate":1793194949576,"projectUrl":"project/books-to-fall-in-love-with/10615039/","projectTitle":"Books To Fall In Love With","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bruno","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2771085_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1697083873538","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2771085"},{"teacherId":2771085,"projectId":10614954,"letterContent":"Prize boxes are a valuable part of elementary school.\r\n\r\nChildren love earning rewards during the day.\r\nThe prize box is a tool used to help reinforce the behavior that makes a classroom calm, learning-ready, and successful. Children have loved to pick their prizes.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us provide a prize box full of cute and engaging toys that students will earn once they achieve their reading goals. Some students have been learning letter sounds, and others have been trying to read a chapter a night. These little toys are the perfect reward for my hard workers.","fullyFundedDate":1793194907337,"projectUrl":"project/prize-box-for-readers/10614954/","projectTitle":"Prize Box for Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bruno","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2771085_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1697083873538","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2771085"},{"teacherId":2771085,"projectId":10494402,"letterContent":"Like any happy reader, our students are delighted when reading comfortably. 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