{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Mililani High School","outOfStateSupporters":37.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":8826668,"projectId":10111616,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for supporting my students! Now I have received material that I always wanted for my classroom. My students will be benefited from all the materials that I have received! \r\n\r\nMy students are all excited to see sushi playset, and we can use them as a plot of their skits in the future! Also they enjoy so much to do calligraphy to celebrate the new year!\r\n\r\nI always want to have a trimmer to make small paper for quizzes. This one is too expensive to buy for our school budget, so I am truly grateful for your help to get it! \r\nThank you very much for all the support!","fullyFundedDate":1771788208108,"projectUrl":"project/hands-on-activities-to-experience-cultur/10111616/","projectTitle":"Hands-On Activities to Experience Culture and Learn the Language!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Yamamoto","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8826668_orig.jpg?crop=480,480,x0,y41&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1726541150273","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8826668"},{"teacherId":8059186,"projectId":9773041,"letterContent":"My students and I are so grateful for your contributions to our classroom. We have been working hard to grow and harvest taro to learn how to sustainably farm a native Hawaiian food source. One of our many projects has been to create a modern fusion recipe using taro to replace or enhance other ingredients to showcase how a traditional food can be incorporated into the modern food culture.\r\n We have been quite successful and have harvested a bountiful amount of taro this year, but we were struggling with where to store it all so it wouldn't go to waste. So we were borrowing space in other teacher's freezers. Now, with your donation, we have our own freezer in which to store our harvest, which also makes it easier for us to access to use whenever we need it. \r\n Thank you again for all of your support,","fullyFundedDate":1759203841452,"projectUrl":"project/culinary-success/9773041/","projectTitle":"Culinary Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Miranda","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8059186_orig.jpg?crop=566,566,x0,y30&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1700259048440","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/miranda-2021"},{"teacherId":3269153,"projectId":9774033,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making our project, \"Pinning Down Our Voice: ELA Meets Creativity,\" a reality. Because of your generosity, my students now have access to a button maker that has transformed how they engage with their learning. This technology allows students to take their writing—whether it's a persuasive argument, a literary theme, or a personal reflection—and turn it into something visual and meaningful. It helps them practice summarizing ideas, thinking about their audience, and expressing themselves clearly, all while making learning more interactive and memorable.\r\n\r\nWhat excites my students most is seeing their words come to life. There is something powerful about holding a finished button or magnet that represents their ideas. Students who are typically more reserved have especially connected with this project, as it gives them a new way to share their voice without the pressure of speaking in front of others. I've seen students take pride in wearing and sharing their creations, sparking conversations with their peers and building confidence in their work.\r\n\r\nThis project has truly helped my students see that their voices matter beyond the classroom. They are not just completing assignments—they are creating messages that can inspire, inform, and connect with others. Your support has made learning more engaging, creative, and meaningful for every student in my class. Thank you again for your generosity and for believing in my students.","fullyFundedDate":1759417618798,"projectUrl":"project/pinning-down-our-voice-ela-meets-creati/9774033/","projectTitle":"Pinning Down Our Voice: ELA Meets Creativity","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Wray","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3269153"},{"teacherId":7925777,"projectId":9773225,"letterContent":"This donation has helped my students tremendously. We are so grateful for the growth that they are able to experience both academically and personally. \r\n\r\nThey are able to take these key moments with them and make them better individuals for the future and create more opportunities for themselves. \r\n\r\nHigh schoolers are sometimes overlooked for opportunities like such because of their age. They are expected to do certain things that they're just not quite ready for yet and with your support, it helps them to meet this expectation.","fullyFundedDate":1759238646367,"projectUrl":"project/showing-off-our-work/9773225/","projectTitle":"Showing Off Our Work!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Yano","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7925777"},{"teacherId":10438262,"projectId":10107874,"letterContent":"Aloha from Hawaii! Thank you so much for supporting my students. I teach grade 12 Expository Writing/British Lit. Anytime I can make reading and writing more engaging by adding an artistic element, the students enjoy and appreciate it. With your donation of chart paper and various types of markers, my students got have some productive discussion before drawing their responses. Students enjoy standing at the whiteboards and working in groups rather than always sitting at desks, so the markers helped with that also. Even older students appreciate tokens such as stickers and candy when getting their notebooks checked. They have written multiple thousands of words this year so far, and they deserve some rewards! I will use the Christmas pencils for next year's students. \r\nMahalo (thank you) again for your generosity!\r\n\r\nRespectfully,\r\nSheila Yuasa","fullyFundedDate":1771683610628,"projectUrl":"project/student-engagement-through-writing/10107874/","projectTitle":"Student Engagement Through Writing","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Yuasa","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10438262"},{"teacherId":9625484,"projectId":10110129,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous support of our classroom project. Your kindness is making a meaningful difference for my students, who inspire me every day with their resilience, curiosity, and determination. Our classroom includes both general education students and students with disabilities, and your support helps ensure that every learner has the tools they need to succeed. Because of you, we are able to create a learning environment where students feel encouraged to try, celebrate their progress, and support one another along the way.\r\n\r\nThe resources from this project will allow us to bring history to life in engaging and accessible ways. Historical texts and graphic novels will strengthen students' literacy and critical thinking skills while making complex events easier to understand—especially for struggling readers who benefit from visual storytelling. Maps and atlases will help students better visualize geography and understand how location influences historical events, while teacher worksheets will provide structured, differentiated practice that supports a wide range of learning needs.\r\n\r\nCreative materials such as poster paper, rulers, and colored markers will give students opportunities to demonstrate their learning through timelines, presentations, and collaborative projects, helping them build confidence and express their understanding in meaningful ways. The laminator will also allow us to preserve important instructional materials and student-created work so they can be reused throughout the year. Because of your generosity, my students will be able to explore history in ways that are inclusive, engaging, and empowering. Thank you for helping them see themselves as capable historians and lifelong learners.","fullyFundedDate":1771761543633,"projectUrl":"project/inquirers-of-hawaiian-and-world-history/10110129/","projectTitle":"Inquirers of Hawaiian and World History","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VB","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9625484_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1759173494168","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9625484"},{"teacherId":10438831,"projectId":10110552,"letterContent":"To Whom It May Concern,\r\n\r\nThanks to your generosity, our students were able to enjoy snacks while working toward their transitional vocational goals. The Spelling Bingo game has been an excellent tool for increasing sight word retention, and the students find the snacks to be a wonderful incentive.\r\n\r\nThose with a competitive edge have enjoyed showcasing their skills through mystery games and team play; the Battleship and Tic-Tac-Toe games are particular favorites. Finally, our team at Project Life is so grateful to have Paper towels on hand for sticky fingers and those \"sneezy\" Hawaii winter days. Thank you for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1771771648964,"projectUrl":"project/project-daily-life/10110552/","projectTitle":"Project Daily Life","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Owens","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10438831"},{"teacherId":10438978,"projectId":10111276,"letterContent":"On behalf of my ninth-grade English classes, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your generous donation of a class set of 32 copies of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. This gift has transformed how my students engage with literature and has become instrumental to our Unit curriculum focused on crime's psychological and emotional effects.\r\n\r\nMurder on the Orient Express has opened rich learning opportunities for my students. Through this novel, they are developing critical analytical skills that extend far beyond the classroom. Students are learning to identify how Christie constructs suspense and develops character motivation through dialogue and action, skills that transfer across all their reading. They practice locating specific textual details that support interpretations about perpetrators' psychological states and victims' experiences. This skill of evidence identification and evaluation will serve them well in all future academic work as well. The novel's exploration of justice, morality, and the psychological burden of guilt directly supports our unit's central question: How do crimes affect the psychological/emotional well-being of perpetrators, victims, families, or their community? Perhaps most importantly, students are developing comparative thinking skills by connecting the novel's exploration of crime's ripple effects to other unit texts like the short story \"Entwined\" and the \"Bully\" podcast, strengthening their ability to synthesize multiple sources for their informative essays.\r\n\r\nWith this donation, reading has become a shared, collaborative experience that looks quite different from our typical classroom routine. Rather than our usual 5-minute independent reading at the start of each class, we now dedicate substantial class time to reading Murder on the Orient Express together. This shift has been transformative for our learning community. As research supports, whole-class read-alouds create opportunities for students to hear the text's sophisticated language and pacing while building a sense of community and shared purpose. We pause frequently to analyze key moments—particularly scenes revealing characters' emotional responses to the crime and its investigation—and these guided discussions allow students to practice the close-reading strategies they will apply to their informative essay sources. Through shared annotations, students see modeling of how to mark up text effectively and engage in the kind of deep analysis that their essays will require. This collaborative approach has made the longer text format more accessible while maintaining rigor, allowing all learners to engage meaningfully with complex material, regardless of reading level.\r\n\r\nI've noticed particular enthusiasm from several groups of students, each engaging with the text in unique and meaningful ways. While the draw of a good mystery is great at engaging students, this novel has been a great way to build skills without the students realizing they are learning. Reluctant readers are more engaged with a physical book in hand and the social experience of reading together. Several students who typically resist assigned reading have begun voluntarily reading ahead, which speaks volumes about the power of this novel to capture their imagination. The best part of this engagement is that there are no screens! Advanced readers are diving deeper into Christie's craft, analyzing how she uses structure, multiple perspectives, and unreliable narration to explore guilt and complicity. Students interested in psychology and true crime have found authentic connections between the novel's exploration of motive and emotional consequence and the unit's essential question, and this genuine interest is energizing their essay research and deepening their engagement with the assignment.\r\n\r\nYour donation has enriched not only our curriculum but our classroom culture in ways that will resonate throughout this entire school year and many more to come. Students are more engaged, discussions are deeper, and their writing will be stronger because they have access to this exceptional text. Thank you for investing in my students' literacy and critical thinking skills, and for recognizing the power of literature to transform how young people understand the world.","fullyFundedDate":1771781843927,"projectUrl":"project/help-my-class-study-agatha-christie/10111276/","projectTitle":"Help My Class Study Agatha Christie","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Monette","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10438978"},{"teacherId":7940922,"projectId":9772321,"letterContent":"Thank you for providing the various supplies needed to successfully prepare and operate our school based enterprise. The tools have helped the students to improve the audio quality of their morning bulletin commercials, which are used to promote their special events. Additionally, the supplies such as the large paper and organizer help with organization of the supplies and informational signage. The new registers and iPad covers were necessary as technology has evolved and made previous versions obsolete and non-functional.\r\n\r\nIt is through these hands-on learning experiences that our students have been able to continue to evolve their school based enterprise, making improvements and developing transferable skills that will be carried with them into their future endeavors.","fullyFundedDate":1759424506080,"projectUrl":"project/our-school-based-enterprise-needs-your-h/9772321/","projectTitle":"Our School-Based Enterprise Needs Your Help to Thrive","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nahina","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7940922"},{"teacherId":2955688,"projectId":10103910,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the generosity! My kids love the snacks on a daily basis. It keeps the motivated and engaged to work. Many students don't eat regularly so having an extra snack keeps their brains working! \r\n\r\nThe bins and class supplies is a great way to keep groups organized and focused. All materials are at their desks don't limits movement especially for the larger classes. \r\n\r\nI use notebooks daily for critical thinking and interactions. Student supplies that are readily available takes away any excuses for learning. \r\n\r\nThank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1771604334908,"projectUrl":"project/essentials-for-our-future-educators/10103910/","projectTitle":"Essentials for our Future Educators","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Grande-Misaki","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2955688_orig.jpg?crop=720,720,x262,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1626199192294","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2955688"},{"teacherId":9468697,"projectId":10103612,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity and support! Thanks to your donation, our tabletop gaming club now even more board games that have completely transformed our after-school meetings. The moment the students walked in and saw the new colorful boxes stacked on the table, their faces lit up with excitement as they began ripping everything open to play with! They spent that first day just exploring all the different options, and it was like opening a treasure chest together.\r\n\r\nSince then, the club has grown into a space full of strategy, collaboration, and laughter. Students who were once shy or hesitant have opened up through gameplay, taking on leadership roles teaching the card games this package supported. These new materials have sparked a genuine love for tabletop games, and our students are eager to keep the momentum going with their new TTRPG games. Your kindness has made a real difference, and we're so grateful for the joy and learning you've brought to our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1771550945206,"projectUrl":"project/afterschool-unplugged-support-our-table/10103612/","projectTitle":"Afterschool Unplugged! Support Our Tabletop Gaming Club!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Kai","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrkai"},{"teacherId":9804456,"projectId":9781381,"letterContent":"Thanks to the generous funding of this project, students are able to visually interact with the skills they are learning. The support has provided students that I see with tangible things that help enhance the therapeutic sessions that we have. This project has assisted in providing tools necessary for connection, regulation, and healing. \r\n\r\nOne of the most transformative aspects of this project is the set of lap dry erase boards and the larger mobile dry erase board. This assists in providing a visual for youth when it comes to skills learned in session as well as an avenue for students to express themselves when they do not have the words to do so. \r\nThe boards help visually map out intrusive thoughts, coping strategies, charting emotions, list gratitude, and more. \r\n\r\nThe mental health book sets help provide literature in an easy to read way that discusses various issues such as shame, grief, anxiety, emotions, etc. This provides something tangible and colorful for psychoeducation. It also helps normalize what students experience. \r\n\r\nThe breathing buddies, calming jar kits, and rock painting kits offer an artistic way of expression and mindfulness. \r\n\r\nMahalo nui loa!","fullyFundedDate":1759596665588,"projectUrl":"project/mindful-moments-and-building-skills/9781381/","projectTitle":"Mindful Moments and Building Skills","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Carol","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9804456"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_50896","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":2382,"numTeachers":148,"percentFrplEligible":34,"percentAsian":31,"percentBlack":2,"percentWhite":8,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":19,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"16.1:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":62.7,"schoolId":50896,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Mililani High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Mililani High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/hawaii/central-oahu-school-district/mililani-high-school/50896"}