{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Ida B Wells Middle School","outOfStateSupporters":57.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5722887,"projectId":10655763,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generosity, our Wolves have access to resources that help them feel warm, comfortable, and confident throughout the school day. We use these materials to support students' basic needs, especially when a student arrives at school hungry, cold, or simply needs a little extra care. Having these resources available allows students to focus more on learning and less on what they may be missing.\r\n\r\nOne of the most meaningful parts of this project has been seeing how excited and appreciative our students are to have these items available. Something as simple as a snack or an essential item can brighten a student's day. More importantly, students are learning that our classroom is a community where we look out for one another.\r\n\r\nAs we continue our science lessons and prepare for our upcoming Science Fair, students will develop research questions, conduct experiments, and bring their creative ideas to life. Your support helps ensure that students can participate in these learning experiences feeling prepared, valued, and ready to succeed.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us teach our Wolves that their well-being matters just as much as their academic success. Your kindness is making a lasting impact on our classroom community!","fullyFundedDate":1792622206125,"projectUrl":"project/warm-fed-confident-supporting-the-wh/10655763/","projectTitle":"Warm, Fed & Confident: Supporting the Whole Middle Schooler","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schroeder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5722887_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1706202198066","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jennifer-schroeder"},{"teacherId":5812049,"projectId":10430163,"letterContent":"Thank you, thank you for you generous gift. I'm proud to report that we were able to distribute every single student year planner to mostly students in 6th grade. We also gave them out to interested scholars in the 7th and 8th grade.\r\n\r\nFor 6th grade, distribution was preceded by a lesson on learning strategies. The planners were/are meant to be a specific strategy to help the students with being organized, especially now that they are dealing with much more rigorous academic requirements including extracurricular and cocurricular activities.\r\n\r\nThank you once again for your support in helping us teach these important life skills to our students","fullyFundedDate":1786225649298,"projectUrl":"project/organize-this/10430163/","projectTitle":"Organize This!","teacherDisplayName":"Mx. Besa Mulaye","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5812049_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1536683709191","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5812049"},{"teacherId":5722887,"projectId":10370448,"letterContent":"One of my favorite parts of teaching science is watching students go from asking, \"What if?\" to saying, \"Let me try!\" Thanks to your generosity, my students will have more opportunities to do just that!\r\n\r\nMiddle school is such an important time for students to discover their interests, challenge themselves, and begin imagining their futures. Your support is helping me make science more than something students read about in a textbook. It's becoming something they can touch, test, investigate, and experience for themselves.\r\n\r\nI want my students to know that science belongs to everyone, not just the students who already think they're good at it. Every child deserves the opportunity to experiment, make mistakes, ask questions, and experience that exciting moment when something finally makes sense.\r\n\r\nThe materials you've helped provide will allow me to create more engaging, hands-on learning experiences where students take ownership of their discoveries and see themselves as capable scientists.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping me turn curiosity into action and giving my students opportunities they will carry with them long after they leave my classroom. I can't wait to see what they discover!","fullyFundedDate":1792514139462,"projectUrl":"project/igniting-curiosity-hands-on-science-for/10370448/","projectTitle":"Igniting Curiosity: Hands-On Science for Every Future Scientist","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schroeder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5722887_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1706202198066","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jennifer-schroeder"},{"teacherId":5722887,"projectId":10679067,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation and for helping me create a classroom where students feel comfortable, confident, and cared for. Your support has provided hoodies, hygiene products, and snacks, but the impact goes far beyond these everyday essentials.\r\n\r\nWhen I first started teaching middle school, I couldn't understand why students wanted to wear hoodies in 100-degree weather! But as I got to know my students and better understood their needs, I realized a hoodie can be more than clothing—it can be a safe space. Middle schoolers are navigating puberty, changing bodies, and all the emotions and insecurities that come with growing up. Sometimes, a hoodie simply helps them feel comfortable in their own skin.\r\n\r\nThanks to your generosity, I have been able to provide hoodies that help students stay in uniform, keep warm, and feel confident. I've even personalized them with students' names, so they can wear them proudly. It's amazing how something so simple can bring so much joy!\r\n\r\nYour donation has also helped support our classroom hygiene station, which has become an important resource for students throughout our school. We've made conversations about \"smelly armpits\" a normal, comfortable topic instead of something embarrassing. And what's even cooler? We're in a science classroom, so we can actually explore the science behind body odor and why our bodies change during puberty!\r\n\r\nStudents who aren't even in my class receive passes to visit our hygiene station. They can grab what they need, freshen up, and return to class feeling better about themselves. No embarrassment, no judgment, and no need to hide. Just students learning to care for themselves and knowing someone cares about them, too.\r\n\r\nAnd then there are the snacks! One thing I've quickly learned about middle schoolers is that they are ALWAYS hungry! Their bodies are growing, their needs are changing, and sometimes they arrive at school without having breakfast. A breakfast bar or snack can make all the difference, helping a student get through the day, focus on learning, and feel ready to participate.\r\n\r\nYour donation has helped me meet students where they are, not just academically, but socially, emotionally, and physically. You've helped create a classroom where students can ask for what they need without shame, and where we can talk about, learn about, and navigate growing up together.\r\n\r\nThank you for seeing the importance of the little things that make a BIG difference in a child's day. You have helped my students feel seen, supported, and proud of who they are becoming.","fullyFundedDate":1792622206825,"projectUrl":"project/fuel-to-flourish-feeding-bodies-minds/10679067/","projectTitle":"Fuel to Flourish: Feeding Bodies, Minds & Dreams","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schroeder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5722887_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1706202198066","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jennifer-schroeder"},{"teacherId":5722887,"projectId":10613277,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us provide team hoodies for our student-athletes! What may seem like a simple piece of clothing has become something much more meaningful for our boys. These hoodies represent unity, warmth, comfort, belonging, and brotherhood.\r\n\r\nFor many of our students, being part of a team means having a place where they feel accepted, supported, and valued. When our players put on their matching hoodies, they are reminded that they are part of something bigger than themselves. They are not just individual athletes. They are teammates, friends, leaders, and brothers who look out for one another both on and off the field.\r\n\r\nThese hoodies also provide practical warmth and comfort as our students travel to practices, attend games, and represent their school throughout the colder months. But beyond keeping them warm, they give our players a sense of pride. No matter their backgrounds or circumstances, every student gets to wear the same hoodie and feel equally important to our team.\r\n\r\nAs coaches, we work hard to teach our athletes that soccer is about more than winning games. It is about building character, showing kindness, developing discipline, supporting one another, and creating lasting relationships. These hoodies reinforce those lessons every time our boys wear them.\r\n\r\nYou didn't just give our students hoodies. You gave them a symbol of belonging, a reminder that someone believes in them, and something they can wear with pride.\r\n\r\nYour generosity has helped strengthen the brotherhood we are building within our team. Long after the final whistle blows, we hope our players will remember the friendships, lessons, and sense of family that came with wearing their Wolves hoodie.\r\n\r\nFrom our coaches and student-athletes, thank you for investing in our boys and reminding them that they matter, they belong, and they are part of something special.\r\n\r\nOne Team. One Family. One Brotherhood. Go Wolves!","fullyFundedDate":1789651315275,"projectUrl":"project/more-than-a-team-hoodies-that-build-bel/10613277/","projectTitle":"More Than a Team: Hoodies That Build Belonging","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schroeder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5722887_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1706202198066","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jennifer-schroeder"},{"teacherId":8224924,"projectId":9951643,"letterContent":"You cannot believe how the kind gift of calculators has made such a difference to the confidence of the scholars in the Grade 7 Math class. Scholars are no longer fearful of attacking their work because of the time it took to do calculations. Instead, they have been able to free themselves and work collaboratively on problems through metacognitive approaches that allow them to think about their thinking. \r\n\r\nWhat is most exciting to our students is that they no longer have to wait for me to check their answers - once they have found the correct strategy and have worked out the problem, they can use their calculators to check their own work!\r\n\r\nThese calculators have not just been a game changer for last year's scholars - the scholars from this year have been so happy to be able to use them as well! Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart and the hearts of our budding Mathmagicians!","fullyFundedDate":1775239556055,"projectUrl":"project/calculators-today-future-leaders-tomorr/9951643/","projectTitle":"Calculators Today, Future Leaders Tomorrow!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Madzongwe","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8224924_orig.jpg?crop=729,729,x230,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1759881965127","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8224924"},{"teacherId":5812049,"projectId":10447896,"letterContent":"Thank you, thank you for your support. We have already gotten so much out of the gifts that you have sent us. The students are constantly using the fidget toys in sessions, meetings, and classes in the counselor's office.\r\n\r\nStudents are not usually able to engage in a therapy session or student meeting for long stretches without engaging in an activity. Fidgets are a wonderful way to keep the students engaged in the content without having their attention wonder.\r\n\r\nThe fidgets have also been great conversation starters because young people just love fidgets.","fullyFundedDate":1786283630730,"projectUrl":"project/starting-strong/10447896/","projectTitle":"Starting Strong","teacherDisplayName":"Mx. Besa Mulaye","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5812049_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1536683709191","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5812049"},{"teacherId":5722887,"projectId":10411653,"letterContent":"Thank you for investing in our student-athletes and helping us build a volleyball program centered on teamwork, confidence, leadership, and belonging.\r\n\r\nYour generosity provided our athletes with resources that made an immediate difference in both our practices and our team culture. The net antennas and whistles helped us create more organized, game-like practices where students could better understand court boundaries, rotations, communication, and proper volleyball techniques. Having the right equipment allowed our coaches to spend more time teaching and our athletes more time practicing the skills they need to grow.\r\nThe team hoodies had an impact that went far beyond keeping our students warm. Wearing something that represents their team and school helped students feel connected to something bigger than themselves. They could proudly identify as student-athletes and members of our Wolfpack.\r\n\r\nFor students in a historically underfunded school community, access to quality athletic resources and team gear should never be a barrier to participation or belonging. Your support helped us provide our students with an experience that communicates a simple but powerful message: You belong here. You are part of this team. We are invested in you.\r\nThrough volleyball, our students are learning that success isn't only measured by points on the scoreboard. It is also measured by showing up prepared, communicating with teammates, responding to mistakes, encouraging others, demonstrating leadership, and continuing to work when something is difficult.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us provide an athletic experience where our students can learn, compete, lead, and grow together.\r\nYou didn't just support a volleyball team—you helped strengthen a Wolfpack.","fullyFundedDate":1788888306342,"projectUrl":"project/serve-strong-building-confidence-throug/10411653/","projectTitle":"Serve Strong: Building Confidence Through Volleyball","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schroeder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5722887_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1706202198066","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jennifer-schroeder"},{"teacherId":5722887,"projectId":10254230,"letterContent":"Thank you for investing in our students and believing in the importance of supporting the whole child. Because of your generosity, 180 middle school students will have access to hands-on LEGO learning experiences that help them build not only creative designs, but also confidence, relationships, resilience, and essential social-emotional skills.\r\n\r\nMiddle school is an important time of growth. Our students are learning academics while also learning how to communicate with others, regulate their emotions, navigate challenges, resolve conflicts, and persevere when something does not work the first time. These LEGO resources give us another meaningful way to practice those skills.\r\n\r\nThrough structured building challenges, students will work together to plan, create, problem-solve, communicate, and revise their ideas. When a structure falls, they will practice persistence. When teammates have different ideas, they will practice compromise and communication. When a challenge feels difficult, they will learn to slow down, rethink their approach, and try again.\r\n\r\nThe LEGO materials will also support a positive reset space in our classroom. Instead of disengaging when students feel overwhelmed or frustrated, they can use a constructive, hands-on activity to refocus, regulate, and prepare themselves to return to learning.\r\nFor our historically underfunded school community, access to high-quality enrichment materials matters. More than half of the students we serve come from low-income households, and your generosity helps ensure that engaging, creative learning opportunities are available to students regardless of their family's financial circumstances.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, these materials allow our students' creativity to shine. They remind students that learning does not always have to look like sitting at a desk completing a worksheet. Sometimes learning looks like building, collaborating, making mistakes, laughing, redesigning, and trying again.\r\nTo the three donors who made this project possible, thank you. Your support will directly reach 180 students, but the skills they develop—patience, teamwork, communication, creativity, perseverance, and problem-solving—can extend far beyond this classroom.\r\nYou didn't just help us purchase LEGO.\r\nYou helped us build stronger students, stronger relationships, and a stronger school community—one brick at a time","fullyFundedDate":1779234545306,"projectUrl":"project/building-minds-through-hands-on-stem-lea/10254230/","projectTitle":"Building Minds Through Hands-On STEM Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schroeder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5722887_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1706202198066","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jennifer-schroeder"},{"teacherId":5722887,"projectId":10263711,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our project, \"Sweet Success: Fueling Student Motivation & Science with Candy!\" Your generosity is helping us bring science to life through fun, hands-on experiments that make learning memorable for our 6th grade scientists.\r\n\r\nThe candy you provided is more than a sweet treat—it becomes part of the experiment! Students will use these materials during science labs to make observations, ask questions, test ideas, collect data, identify patterns, and develop evidence-based explanations. These engaging investigations allow students to experience science rather than simply read about it.\r\n\r\nYour support gives our students access to hands-on learning experiences that spark curiosity and make complex scientific concepts more accessible and exciting. There is something special about watching students light up when they realize that everyday materials can be used to explore real scientific phenomena.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us create a classroom where students can touch it, test it, observe it, question it, and learn from it! Your generosity is helping us develop the next generation of curious thinkers, problem-solvers, and scientists.","fullyFundedDate":1783519232158,"projectUrl":"project/sweet-success-fueling-student-motivatio/10263711/","projectTitle":"Sweet Success: Fueling Student Motivation & Science with Candy!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schroeder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5722887_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1706202198066","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jennifer-schroeder"},{"teacherId":5722887,"projectId":9944058,"letterContent":"Thank you for investing in our students and helping us create a science classroom where access to technology is no longer a barrier to learning.\r\n\r\nBecause of your generosity, 177 sixth-grade Earth Science students will have greater access to the digital tools they need to investigate, question, model, collaborate, and create. For many of our students, school is where they depend on having access to reliable technology. Your support helps us move closer to an equitable learning environment where a student's ability to participate does not depend on whether a device happens to be available that day.\r\n\r\nThese iPads will become much more than screens in our classroom—they will become tools for scientific discovery.\r\nStudents will use them throughout our Earth Science curriculum to explore digital simulations, manipulate variables, analyze evidence, collect and interpret data, build scientific models, and engage in virtual investigations. Through Amplify Science, students will investigate phenomena that cannot simply be recreated inside a middle school classroom—from studying geological processes to examining evidence about the history of Mars.\r\n\r\nThe impact will extend beyond our daily lessons. As our students prepare for the Science Fair, they will use these devices to research their questions, organize and analyze data, create graphs, document experiments through photos and videos, and develop multimedia presentations that allow them to proudly communicate their findings to classmates, teachers, families, judges, and our school community.\r\n\r\nYour support also helps us better meet the needs of every learner. Students can access digital glossaries, text-to-speech features, translation tools, visual supports, enlarged text, and other accessibility resources. These tools are especially valuable for our multilingual learners and students with IEPs, allowing them to engage with rigorous science content while receiving the supports they need to demonstrate what they know.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, students will not have to sit on the sidelines waiting for technology.\r\nInstead, they can be the scientists.\r\nThey can ask the question. Run the simulation. Collect the evidence. Revise the model. Analyze the results. Collaborate with their peers. And confidently share what they discovered.\r\n\r\nFor students in historically underfunded classrooms, equitable access to high-quality technology can open doors to experiences that otherwise may not be available. Your investment is helping our students see themselves not simply as children completing a science assignment, but as scientists, engineers, problem-solvers, and innovators.\r\nThe impact of this project will reach 177 students this year, and these devices will continue supporting future classes of young scientists for years to come. \r\n\r\nThank you for believing that our students deserve the tools to explore their curiosity and bring their biggest scientific ideas to life. We are incredibly grateful that you chose to invest in them.","fullyFundedDate":1774576736842,"projectUrl":"project/one-to-one-for-all/9944058/","projectTitle":"One to One for all!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schroeder","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5722887_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1706202198066","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jennifer-schroeder"},{"teacherId":10335167,"projectId":10029635,"letterContent":"We are grateful for your generous donation of headphones for our math classroom. Your support has made it possible for us to implement a more effective blended learning environment. Headphones allow our classroom to run multiple learning stations simultaneously without unnecessary distractions. Students using headphones are better able to focus, stay on tasks, and work at their own pace on interactive, computer-based lessons. This gives students the opportunity to take ownership of their learning. \r\n\r\nThank you for investing in our scholars","fullyFundedDate":1769191975612,"projectUrl":"project/hear-to-learn-headphones-for-student-su/10029635/","projectTitle":"Hear to Learn: Headphones for Student Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Andrade","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10335167_orig.jpg?crop=2735,2735,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1768427931246","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10335167"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_124450","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":527,"numTeachers":null,"percentFrplEligible":54,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":50,"percentWhite":1,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":45,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":1,"gradesServed":"6 - 8","studentTeacherRatio":null,"demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":43.0,"schoolId":124450,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Ida B Wells Middle School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Ida B Wells Middle School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/district-of-columbia/dc-public-schools/ida-b-wells-middle-school/124450"}