{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Alden Road Exceptional Student Center","outOfStateSupporters":33.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":10296458,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping me to revamp my classroom's sensory space for the new school year. My students all require direct instruction in social/emotional skills and this area has been the perfect addition to add to each student's toolbox!\r\n\r\nThe students are loving getting to explore all of the new tools and materials that we received and it has inspired me to begin to create some new supports to add to the area. I cannot wait to see how this tool is utilized long term with my students and how much they grow with you supporting our new Sensory Space.\r\n\r\nI could not do this without support from you!","fullyFundedDate":1786023261090,"projectUrl":"project/a-sensory-space-for-success/10296458/","projectTitle":"A Sensory Space for Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":10322313,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping me to be able to restock my classroom store for the new school year. My students work very hard each and every day to fit into a society that wasn't made for them. \r\n\r\nWith your help, we have and will get to continue to work on our financial literacy skills, money management, budgeting, shopping, spending, mathematic skills, counting, and so much more through the \"Silverman Store.\"\r\n\r\nSo much of what we do each and every day is designed to help our students to become as independent as they can when they exit the Public K-12 Education System. Learning how to use money to make purchases is just one key to success. \r\n\r\nI know that I could not do this without your very generous support of the work that I am doing with my students! Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1786366850361,"projectUrl":"project/learning-life-skills-one-purchase-at-a-t/10322313/","projectTitle":"Learning Life Skills One Purchase at a Time","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":10297371,"letterContent":"Music is such a powerful tool for my students! With your help, I was able to welcome them back into my classroom for a new school year with new musical instruments that assist them with learning and growing. The students have loved getting to use and explore the different instruments that are currently out for them to utilize during our daily Morning Meeting, during breaks, and especially during sensory times. \r\n\r\nWe also were given music as one of our electives so the information that they are learning is getting to be carried throughout their days. I have seen them light up when they get to explore and learn the different instruments and I cannot wait to see what they learn as the year goes on.\r\n\r\nThank you again for your support of my students and helping to make this project a reality!","fullyFundedDate":1784990835378,"projectUrl":"project/making-music-building-connections/10297371/","projectTitle":"Making Music, Building Connections","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":9819229,"letterContent":"Jambo! Which means hello.\r\n\r\nFirst off thank you so much for supporting my classroom and funding another project. I am extremely grateful for all the support that you and Donors Choose has provided, with your help I was able to take my students on an \"Adventure Across Africa: Discovering Culture, Color, and Connection!\" My students have enjoyed getting to use the materials that you helped us to receive and I know that my future students will love it just as much!\r\n\r\nMy students were able to learn all about the animals that call the continent of Africa home, about the clothing that people wear, as well as be able to work on their fine motor skills through music and art.\r\n\r\nThank you","fullyFundedDate":1771030656164,"projectUrl":"project/adventure-across-africa-discovering-cul/9819229/","projectTitle":"Adventure Across Africa: Discovering Culture, Color, and Connection!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":9821434,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your very generous donations that allowed us to learn more about people who have changed history. We were able to learn so much and it was a perfect addition to our studies during Black History Month. \"Little People, Big Dreams\" is a wonderful non-fiction book series that takes the biographies of an important person's life and makes it into a picture book that is accessible for my students and their unique needs. \r\n\r\nAfter we read all of the different stories that we received we made a collage with the cover of the person who we liked the most. Thank you again for your very generous donation!","fullyFundedDate":1762266284139,"projectUrl":"project/big-dreams-bright-futures-inspiring-re/9821434/","projectTitle":"Big Dreams, Bright Futures: Inspiring Readers with Real-Life Role Models","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":9770289,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your extremely generous donation. With your help we were able to get new cooking materials to help Cook Up Life Skills. Now every Friday, my students are able to broaden their taste buds and learn how to cook new things. So far since we have received our new cooking tools we have made French Toast, Rice Krispy Treats, Pasta, Haitian Spagetti, and so many more tasty treats!\r\n\r\nMy students are always excited for Friday so that they can learn what we are going to be cooking. I know that we have so many more wonderful lessons ahead now that we have a full set of mixing bowls, cooking utensils, pots, pans, and other necessary supplies to cook up some tasty treats!\r\n\r\nThank you again for your extremely generous donations!","fullyFundedDate":1760715444760,"projectUrl":"project/cooking-up-life-skills/9770289/","projectTitle":"Cooking Up Life Skills","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":9623618,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping to support the work that I get to do with my students. Within my classroom, my learners have daily lessons to help support their Social/Emotional Development. With your help, we were able to utilize new tools and resources to make our lessons more hands on.\r\n\r\nEmotions and Social/Emotional Wellness is a very difficult topic for my students to understand. Emotions are very complex and something that is difficult for everyone to learn. When you have a disability, such as autism spectrum disorder and/or intellectual disability, understanding emotions are so much more complex.\r\n\r\nThe tools that were donated have already shown to help my students better understand their emotions. I cannot wait to see where their Social/Emotional Wellness growth takes them!","fullyFundedDate":1757683075936,"projectUrl":"project/sel-for-the-win/9623618/","projectTitle":"SEL for the Win","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":9388961,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping my classroom get books that have characters who have disabilities. It is amazing to see my students open a book and see characters that look like them and have similar experiences. Literacy is a very powerful tool that changes lives and when students are able to see themselves in the books that they are reading, it makes them stronger readers.\r\n\r\nThis project came just in time, as October is Disability Employment and Awareness Month. With your help, I am able to show my students that they are not alone.","fullyFundedDate":1757683160557,"projectUrl":"project/books-that-look-like-us/9388961/","projectTitle":"Books that Look Like Us","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":9389272,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support of this project. It gave us the materials that we needed for our birthday's celebrations but it has also provided us with endless opportunities to learn about the months of the years, seasons, how Earth moves around the sun, and even where animals live.\r\n\r\nThe students were so excited to see the new materials arrive and get to learn all about how the Earth travels around the sun as it orbits in space and how the season are connected. \r\n\r\nWithout your support and Donors Choose this project would have just been a dream instead of a reality.","fullyFundedDate":1757683075636,"projectUrl":"project/celebrating-life/9389272/","projectTitle":"Celebrating Life","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Silverman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8314837_orig.jpg?crop=1242,1242,x0,y136&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753489762823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8314837"},{"teacherId":8314837,"projectId":9650867,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping me to be able to provide my students with more opportunities to develop their pre-vocational and vocational skills. For students with multiple significant disabilities, the more pre-vocational and vocational skills that they are able to develop while they are still in school, the more opportunities that will become available for them when they age out of the Public K-12 Education System at age 22.\r\n\r\nWith your help, we were able to create a designated area within our classroom where students are able to work on tasks that have been specifically designed based on their unique abilities and interests. 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