{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"El Camino Fundamental High School","outOfStateSupporters":25.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10007628,"projectId":9290882,"letterContent":"I am thrilled to share the wonderful impact that the recent donations of new potter's wheels have had on our ceramics class. These additions have truly transformed our students' learning experience.\r\nWith the new wheels, students now have greater access to hands-on practice, allowing them to develop their skills more thoroughly and confidently. The increased availability means less waiting time, so each student can spend more time experimenting and refining their techniques. This has sparked a noticeable boost in creativity and enthusiasm throughout the class.\r\nMoreover, the new equipment has enabled us to introduce more advanced projects and explore a wider range of ceramic techniques. Our students are producing more intricate and polished work, which is a testament to the positive influence of these resources on their artistic growth.\r\nWe are deeply grateful for this generous support, which has enriched our program and inspired our students to reach new heights in their craft.\r\nThank you for helping us nurture the next generation of ceramic artists.","fullyFundedDate":1747352339383,"projectUrl":"project/new-potters-wheels-the-backbone-of-the/9290882/","projectTitle":"New Potter's Wheels: The Backbone of the Ceramics Classroom!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Bill","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10007628_orig.jpg?crop=2497,2497,x0,y83&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1745863635285","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10007628"},{"teacherId":8422799,"projectId":9586655,"letterContent":"I want to thank everyone who contributed to this project. The overwhelming support from my community and from my friends has been truly heartwarming. \r\n\r\nMy school, as well as many of the students in Sacramento, are coming from families that are having an increasingly difficult time surviving. In the past, when I asked my students to come to school with a scientific calculator, this was not financially difficult. A scientific calculator runs about $10-$15. But now, asking a student to provide a device, that they technically already posses is financially difficult. \r\n\r\nBy providing these calculators to my students, I will be able to have them work on math related to chemistry without the need to have their phones to distract them! This is life changing for some of my students. Thank you!!!","fullyFundedDate":1757702809508,"projectUrl":"project/calculators-not-phones/9586655/","projectTitle":"Calculators Not Phones","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Turner","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8422799_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y252&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1650498716608","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8422799"},{"teacherId":8422799,"projectId":9588726,"letterContent":"I want to thank everyone for funding this project. This project, which raised money to buy a class set of calculators, is not an exciting one. This is not new technology or even the most expensive calculators available.\r\n\r\nWhat this project will do is help students with their focus and mental health. I've been teaching for 26 years, and I've never seen so many students with focus and mental health issues. The one thing I know is that smart phones are not making our students smarter.\r\n\r\nEach day my students come into class and put their phones in a rack that I lock up during class. Now that I have a class set of calculators, my students have no reason to use their phones during class. Since I have implemented this ban, focus has improved and students are talking to their peers more. This simple change has had a big impact, thanks to all of you!","fullyFundedDate":1756079781305,"projectUrl":"project/calculators-not-phones/9588726/","projectTitle":"Calculators Not Phones","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Turner","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8422799_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y252&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1650498716608","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8422799"},{"teacherId":418227,"projectId":9302407,"letterContent":"With great gratitude, I write to thank you all for your generosity to my art program. \r\n\r\nIt was my first year teaching this subject. I was constantly scrambling to catch up to the many needs of my students, whom I taught at the end of their school day. This means that there just wasn't a lot of room for trial and error, but that I had to be extra vigilant and prepared. \r\n\r\nWhen the two boxes of large drawing paper arrived, I was elated. I no longer had to economize, streamline, or cut out activities I'd hoped to teach. Instead, we went all out, made large projects, and learned a great deal more that scale has to offer to art students. You obviously get it, that teachers can't do their jobs without community support. I thank you again and again for making my first year teaching art so memorable.","fullyFundedDate":1746558679961,"projectUrl":"project/spring-art-boost/9302407/","projectTitle":"Spring Art Boost!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Zysk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp418227_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y403&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1673913833894","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/418227"},{"teacherId":8420281,"projectId":9290498,"letterContent":"The TV you helped provide for my classroom has been game changing! For the end of last school year, and now the beginning of this school year, I've been able to allow more natural light flow into the classroom helping students feel more awake and engaged, and they can still adequately see the lesson slides I'm projecting on the screen. I have less students complaining that they need to move seats because they can't see the screen. It's lower position also makes it easier for me to interact and point at things more clearly. Being able to replace my projector means that I don't need a desk in the middle of my room with a stack of random books propping the projector up enough to fit the screen in my room. This has allowed me to free up space for desks to be better arranged for students and myself to move around the room. I promise that your generous donation has not gone to waste or underappreciated! Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1746495030227,"projectUrl":"project/a-brighter-more-engaging-learning-expe/9290498/","projectTitle":"A Brighter & More Engaging Learning Experience!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Fegan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8420281_orig.jpg?crop=3456,3456,x0,y864&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1650296145514","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8420281"},{"teacherId":8168625,"projectId":9385593,"letterContent":"Today is the first day of the new school year and all of the books have just arrived, safe and sound! It is extremely crazy in the library at the moment, there's so much going on. So once things settle down (which will probably not happen until sometime next week), I will be cataloging and processing these fabulous new books as soon as possible. I already have a few students that are excited to check some of them out.\r\n\r\nI am really excited to be able to start the year off with new books to put out!","fullyFundedDate":1749409528108,"projectUrl":"project/diverse-novels-for-our-diverse-students/9385593/","projectTitle":"Diverse Novels for our Diverse Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sheehan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8168625_orig.jpg?crop=2880,2880,x0,y364&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1763668461320","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8168625"},{"teacherId":8168625,"projectId":9321164,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for choosing to support this little project. There are still a few weeks of school to go and these books made my students very happy to receive these and have a few new things to check out and devour before summer break. They really are insatiable! Thankfully, the books arrived really quickly and I was able to get them ready for checkout immediately. Several have already been checked out. These new books were the perfect little boost to get me to the end of the school year and for that, I am eternally grateful.","fullyFundedDate":1746785836890,"projectUrl":"project/feeding-voracious-readers/9321164/","projectTitle":"Feeding Voracious Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sheehan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8168625_orig.jpg?crop=2880,2880,x0,y364&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1763668461320","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8168625"},{"teacherId":8168625,"projectId":9035368,"letterContent":"I have received all of the wonderful new books and I am hard at work cataloging and processing them as fast as I can. We only have a few weeks left of school, but I am still regularly checking out books to students. I see my avid graphic novel readers at least once a day and they have been asking for more volumes in the series they've been reading. This new stack of manga and graphic novels will at least keep them satisfied until the end of the school year. \r\n\r\nThank you again for your support. My students and I are deeply grateful.","fullyFundedDate":1746458551386,"projectUrl":"project/new-year-new-books/9035368/","projectTitle":"New Year, New Books!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sheehan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8168625_orig.jpg?crop=2880,2880,x0,y364&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1763668461320","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8168625"},{"teacherId":9440720,"projectId":8859334,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of printmaking supplies to the visual art students of El Camino High School. They experienced new materials from linoleum blocks, inks and tools to use to create a complete set of 10 prints. They learned patience and problem solving skills when carving away, printing, and registering each layer. \r\n\r\nTwo of my students are going to have their prints displayed in a local art gallery this coming month. These prints are also going to be for sale with profits going back to our art program. With this money, we will purchase more ink, paper and blocks. Thank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1734492216665,"projectUrl":"project/help-my-students-create-original-prints/8859334/","projectTitle":"Help My Students Create Original Prints to Teach Financial Literacy!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. McDonald","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9440720_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1718850623100","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9440720"},{"teacherId":2792089,"projectId":8930626,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting my class and specifically for providing my classroom with the necessary equipment to better include my English as a Second Language students. So far, the greatest impact has been the combination of the label microphone and the snowball microphone. They have allowed for smooth communication between the students and myself which has created a more positive classroom due everyone being able to participate. \r\n\r\nThe lapel mic teamed with the built in microsoft translation tools have allowed me to provide better support to my students that currently do not speak or read English. With the live translation, I am able to provide instruction in their native language.\r\n\r\nThe headsets portion hasn't worked as well as I expected, but this is due to Microsoft still building that support for all languages (currently it is limited to about 10 languages ...unfortunately not including Dari), so in the future, they should be become yet another strong student support. \r\n\r\nI thank you again for helping my kids!","fullyFundedDate":1731302780741,"projectUrl":"project/live-translation-for-my-refugee-students/8930626/","projectTitle":"Live Translation for My Refugee Students","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Markley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2792089_orig.jpg?crop=388,388,x61,y34&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1649560405712","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/markleybiology"},{"teacherId":2560411,"projectId":8907919,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing this opportunity for our Dance Team. They have been practicing so hard and it is wonderful watching their confidence grow. Not only that, but we are having so much fun dancing! Thank you for helping us get the shoes that we requested. It helps a lot to not have to purchase those. \r\nAll the students were so excited when the shoes started arriving! I even had some boys who were interested in joining the dance team, so that was thrilling too!\r\nNext step is to teach them new dance genres and have them perform during half times and rallies. Again, thank you so much for supporting this project and providing shoes for our team!","fullyFundedDate":1730686708738,"projectUrl":"project/dance-is-a-sport-we-need-the-right-too/8907919/","projectTitle":"Dance is a Sport & We Need the Right Tools","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Fox","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2560411_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1486001671551","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2560411"},{"teacherId":8168625,"projectId":8957097,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping me get supplies to jazz up my book displays! I used some of the supplies immediately to create a winter themed display using the fabulous pun of \"Reading is SNOW much fun!\". I have gotten a few chuckles and a few groans, but I think it looks pretty cute. I have also used all of the book stands to help prop up the featured books in the fiction sections, so that is looking a lot better now.\r\n\r\nI am looking forward to using more of the decorations for future displays. 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