{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"North Port High School","outOfStateSupporters":42.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10475078,"projectId":10181558,"letterContent":"🐝 A Heartfelt Thank You from NPHS Work Study 🐝\r\n\r\nOn behalf of the students and staff of the North Port High School Work Study Program, we want to say a huge and heartfelt THANK YOU for supporting our students, our pollinators, and our growing beekeeping program.\r\n\r\nSometimes a gift is so much more than the item inside the box. Sometimes it becomes an opportunity to learn, a reason to try something new, and a chance for a student to discover an interest they never knew they had. The pollinator and beekeeping tools provided to our program are exactly that kind of gift. 💙🐝\r\n\r\nOur students learn best when they are able to get involved, work with their hands, ask questions, make mistakes, solve problems, and see the results of their hard work. Our bee and pollinator program gives them an incredible opportunity to do all of those things while learning about the important role pollinators play in our environment and our community.\r\n\r\nEvery hive inspection, every flower planted, every piece of equipment prepared, and every new bee fact learned becomes part of something much bigger.\r\n\r\nThrough beekeeping, our students are learning responsibility, teamwork, patience, safety, communication, and problem-solving skills. They are learning that caring for living things requires consistency and attention. They are learning to slow down, observe what is happening around them, and understand how even the smallest creatures can have an enormous impact on the world.\r\n\r\nAnd our bees are pretty incredible teachers. 🐝\r\n\r\nThey teach us that everyone has a job.\r\n\r\nThey teach us that a community works best when everyone contributes.\r\n\r\nThey teach us that sometimes the smallest members of a community can make the biggest difference.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, these experiences allow our students to build confidence. For many of our Work Study students, career education isn't just about talking about a job in a classroom. It is about having the opportunity to actually experience meaningful work. When a student puts on protective equipment, learns how to safely use a beekeeping tool, helps care for our pollinator spaces, or shares what they have learned with another person, they aren't simply completing an activity. They are developing skills they can carry with them into adulthood, employment, and their community.\r\n\r\nYour support helps make those moments possible.\r\n\r\nHaving the proper beekeeping tools and pollinator resources allows us to create hands-on learning opportunities that simply wouldn't be possible otherwise. These tools will be used by students who are learning about agriculture, environmental stewardship, animal care, workplace safety, entrepreneurship, and the importance of giving back to their community.\r\n\r\nAnd yes, there will probably be a few nervous moments, plenty of questions, lots of excitement, and more than a few \"Did you SEE that?!\" moments along the way! 💙😂🐝\r\n\r\nThose are the moments we love.\r\n\r\nOur Work Study program is about helping students discover what they can do. Whether they are caring for our chickens, working with our garden, learning about our bees, helping with our honey project, preparing products, or participating in community events, we want our students to experience the pride that comes from being an important part of something.\r\n\r\nOur pollinator program is becoming one of those very special somethings.\r\n\r\nWe are incredibly proud of what our students are building at North Port High School, but programs like this don't grow because of one person. They grow because a community chooses to believe in students and invest in opportunities for them.\r\n\r\nSo from our students, teachers, staff, our entire NPHS Work Study family — and, of course, from some very busy little North Port bees — THANK YOU. 🐝🌻💙\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in hands-on education.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us provide meaningful career experiences.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping our students learn skills that extend far beyond the classroom.\r\n\r\nThank you for supporting pollinators and teaching the next generation why protecting them matters.\r\n\r\nAnd most of all, thank you for believing that our students deserve opportunities to learn, grow, contribute, and shine.\r\n\r\nEvery tool will be used.\r\n\r\nEvery lesson will matter.\r\n\r\nEvery experience will help build confidence.\r\n\r\nAnd every little buzz around our hive will remind us that amazing things can happen when a community comes together. 🐝💙🌻\r\n\r\nWith tremendous gratitude,\r\n\r\nThe North Port High School Work Study Students & Staff\r\n\r\nGrowing skills. 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It transforms our classrooms into spaces where growth, confidence, and positivity thrive—for every single learner.\r\n\r\nThank you for being part of this journey and for helping make our teaching and learning community such a meaningful and uplifting place.","fullyFundedDate":1757278341107,"projectUrl":"project/feed-the-mind/9583169/","projectTitle":"Feed the Mind","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Moran","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9572006_orig.jpg?crop=3589,3589,x1131,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720725908899","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/nphspbismrsmoran"},{"teacherId":7026838,"projectId":6809598,"letterContent":"I extend my deepest gratitude to all of the generous donors for your continued support and belief in my mission. Your kindness made a meaningful difference in my classroom and in the lives of my students every day. 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