{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Cherokee Bluff High School","outOfStateSupporters":39.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9217891,"projectId":9784671,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing my students with the opportunity to play board games in our after school game club. I have not had many things to offer them due to having no budget, and this donors choose project has been such a blessing. My students love the games and I have much more participation in game club now that I have games to offer. \r\nThank you so much for providing me with the tools to create this space for students to play board games! This would not be possible without the donors choose community!","fullyFundedDate":1762266317123,"projectUrl":"project/tabletop-gaming/9784671/","projectTitle":"Tabletop Gaming","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Selman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9217891"},{"teacherId":8285641,"projectId":9985600,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kind donations! Your denotations purchased a gift card from teachers pay teachers. I used this gift card to buy 23 different activities. Each activity was made by another teacher so you not only fined my project but you have also put money in the pockets of teachers too. The activities I bought are all unique hands on labs or simulations that will help my students better understand ecology and environmental science. You have made my class more engaging and I am so very grateful.","fullyFundedDate":1776123172117,"projectUrl":"project/teachers-pay-teachers/9985600/","projectTitle":"Teachers Pay Teachers","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Pruitt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8285641_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1736957858033","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8285641"},{"teacherId":9217891,"projectId":9600587,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing these fidgets for my students! They are already helping my students who need fidgets with an easy and not distracting way to move about. The students were very excited when they came in to see the fidget bands and cushions for the chairs. These items are used every day and help to support students physical comfort when they are in my classroom, enabling them to better pay attention and do their work without thinking of continual discomfort. We are very grateful for the provision of these resources that would not have otherwise been provided for us!","fullyFundedDate":1766154950160,"projectUrl":"project/chair-fidgets/9600587/","projectTitle":"Chair Fidgets","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Selman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9217891"},{"teacherId":9686671,"projectId":9932409,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for funding our DonorsChoose project and providing the basketballs, volleyballs, playground balls, storage bags, and sensory path decals. Your generosity has truly made an immediate and meaningful impact in our classroom. When the students first saw the materials, their excitement was priceless! They eagerly helped inflate the balls and get everything organized and ready to use. It was such a powerful moment of ownership and pride for them.\r\n\r\nSince receiving the items, our students have been actively playing basketball and volleyball and enjoying the opportunity to move and work together. The sensory path in the hallway has quickly become a favorite. It is already helping students get the proprioceptive input they need to stay regulated and focused. I have even been able to help a student calm their emotions and successfully return to learning using these new tools.\r\n\r\nOur next step is to explicitly teach students how to independently navigate and use the sensory path as a regulation strategy when they need it. Because of you, they now have meaningful opportunities to move, reset, and succeed throughout the school day. We are so grateful for your support and belief in our students.","fullyFundedDate":1766154953370,"projectUrl":"project/lets-get-moving/9932409/","projectTitle":"Let’s Get Moving!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hower","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9686671_orig.jpg?crop=1080,1080,x492,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1763481897306","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9686671"},{"teacherId":5950735,"projectId":9806638,"letterContent":"Already in the first week of using these new materials, my students have had a blast. Just the experience of getting to use new things for the first time was exciting. I showed the students how the boards had paper and white board, and how to make them into an easel after working on the chosen side.\r\n\r\nIt was fun for them to pull out all the new colors of markers and work in groups to create one-pager notes for their classmates. These materials turned a typical activity into something just a little more creative, interesting, and engaging for them.\r\n\r\nI have already been imagining all the ways we can use these boards and am so thankful for your donation!","fullyFundedDate":1765986871097,"projectUrl":"project/flipping-out-over-dry-erase-flipcharts/9806638/","projectTitle":"Flipping Out over Dry-Erase Flipcharts","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Scali","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5950735_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1760237639895","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kscali"},{"teacherId":9672894,"projectId":9517634,"letterContent":"I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to express our heartfelt gratitude for your generous donations to Cherokee Bluff High School. Your support has made a significant impact on our students and their learning experiences.\r\nThanks to your contributions, we have been able to work on the percent composition activity to understand percent calculations and average atomic mass. These resources have not only enriched our curriculum but have also fostered a more engaging and dynamic learning environment.\r\nFor instance, it increased the student engagement in calculating the average atomic mass; otherwise, most of my students would have been lost. The feedback from students and teachers has been overwhelmingly positive, and it's clear that your generosity is making a real difference.\r\nMoreover, your support has inspired our students to strive for excellence and has encouraged them to take an active role in their education. They are more motivated than ever to explore new ideas and collaborate with their peers, leading to a vibrant community of learners.\r\nWe are incredibly grateful for your belief in our mission and your commitment to investing in our students' future. Thank you once again for your generous support. We look forward to keeping you updated on our progress and sharing more success stories made possible by your contributions.","fullyFundedDate":1760730369887,"projectUrl":"project/snacks-and-supplies-for-our-underprivile/9517634/","projectTitle":"Snacks and Supplies for Our Underprivileged and Special Education Students","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Venukadasula","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9672894"},{"teacherId":9686671,"projectId":9783415,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom and making this project possible! When the boxes arrived, my students were beyond excited. They literally gasped with excitement as we opened the packages and discovered the new calculators, math games, math manipulatives, erasers, and real-life skills activities for budgeting. Seeing their joy and enthusiasm reminded us all how powerful it is to have fresh, engaging materials to learn with.\r\n\r\nWe are already putting these resources to great use. We plan to use the calculators daily to build confidence and independence in math, practice real-world budgeting skills with the new activities, and work together during small group math games to strengthen problem-solving and collaboration. Even the new erasers have become a big hit and are motivating students to stay focused and engaged during lessons.\r\n\r\nYour generosity has made a meaningful difference in our classroom. My students are so excited to learn math with these new materials, and your support has helped create an environment where learning feels fun, hands-on, and empowering. Thank you for investing in our students and helping them grow both academically and in real-life skills.\r\n\r\nSincerely,\r\nAdrian Hower","fullyFundedDate":1763523703533,"projectUrl":"project/game-on-for-math-success/9783415/","projectTitle":"Game On for Math Success!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hower","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9686671_orig.jpg?crop=1080,1080,x492,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1763481897306","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9686671"},{"teacherId":8285641,"projectId":9929304,"letterContent":"Thanks to your donation I received a teacherspayteachers gift card. I was able to buy 22 different activities from the teacherspayteachers website. These activities are all made by other teachers and when purchased they receive a majority of the profits. So by funding this project you not only donated to me but to all of the teachers who I just bought activates from. You have helped make my class more interesting and engaging since I know have access to a lot more activities. Science can only be learned by doing and you have given me 22 more activities and labs to do with my students.","fullyFundedDate":1764894380105,"projectUrl":"project/teachers-funding-teachers/9929304/","projectTitle":"Teachers Funding Teachers","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Pruitt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8285641_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1736957858033","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8285641"},{"teacherId":8285641,"projectId":9908596,"letterContent":"Thank you for your kind donations. Thanks to you I now have plenty of stopwatches and clipboards for my class. Students are very grateful for the clipboards. Many of my activates involve kids walking around to different stages. Last week students were walking around the hallway looking at examples of primary and secondary succession and answering questions. I had a couple students joke about finally having clipboards to bare down on instead of just putting their papers on the wall. I have also used one of the stopwatches to time a fun game activity that modeled the problems caused by invasive species. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1764272472687,"projectUrl":"project/clipboards-and-stop-watches/9908596/","projectTitle":"Clipboards and Stop Watches","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Pruitt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8285641_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1736957858033","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8285641"},{"teacherId":8285641,"projectId":9820759,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kind donation! Climate change is a difficult concept for students to grasp and study. This lab kit you have funded will help students learn how scientists study and measure climate change through studying tree cores.\r\nScience is best learned while doing and now my students can study climate change like real scientists. The kids book on climate change will help students read a simplified explanation of the causes and effects of climate change. Both of the items you have funded will help my students grow as environmental scientists.","fullyFundedDate":1763589511298,"projectUrl":"project/class-and-climate-change/9820759/","projectTitle":"Class and Climate Change","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Pruitt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8285641_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1736957858033","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8285641"},{"teacherId":9368908,"projectId":9743248,"letterContent":"This project transformed my classroom into a hands-on shipyard where history, engineering, and creativity came together in the most incredible way. With these materials, my students were able to design, blueprint, and build scale-model vessels inspired by both Chinese junks and Portuguese caravels while applying STEM principles like buoyancy, stability, balance, and structural integrity.\r\n\r\nStudents collaborated as shipwright teams, logged design revisions like real engineers, and tested their ships in water to evaluate which designs would have succeeded on long-distance ocean voyages. Many students who normally struggle to connect with traditional text-based learning came alive during this project—sketching, problem-solving, troubleshooting leaks, balancing masts, and proudly analyzing their test results.\r\n\r\nYour generosity made it possible for every student—across all learning levels—to participate fully with quality materials instead of makeshift substitutes. My classroom felt electric with engagement and curiosity, and students walked away with a deeper understanding of maritime innovation and how technology shaped global exploration.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping create an authentic, STEM-infused historical experience my students will remember long after the unit is over.","fullyFundedDate":1760718640198,"projectUrl":"project/stem-on-the-high-seas-trans-oceanic-shi/9743248/","projectTitle":"STEM on the High Seas: Trans-oceanic Shipbuilding Project","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Martin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9368908_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757781038018","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-angela-martin"},{"teacherId":8285641,"projectId":9859672,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kind donations! Thanks to your donations I was able to get a 100 dollar gift card to teachers pay teachers. Teachers pay teachers is a website where teachers can sell lesson plans to other teachers. So you not only helped me but other teachers with this donation! With the gift card you provided, I was able to purchase a lot of great activities, labs, and projects from fellow teachers thanks to your donation. The pictures show the first activity I did with my students. It's an activity where students read about and answer questions about the soil horizons. They even got to make a fun desert that resembles the horizon layers. 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