{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Howard C Reiche Community School","outOfStateSupporters":40.9,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":144329,"projectId":9969010,"letterContent":"The children were all so proud to learn to read the Elephant and Piggy books . The students were motivated and happy to learn to read the books. They were excited and looked forward to the day when they could take home their own copies to keep ! The students loved the books and were impressed to learn that so many people had come together to help make this project happen for them. It inspired them to go out and help others as well. Thank you so much for your generousity to make this all happen. ❤️","fullyFundedDate":1775747762453,"projectUrl":"project/a-book-to-love/9969010/","projectTitle":"A Book To Love","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. C.","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/144329"},{"teacherId":570438,"projectId":10183452,"letterContent":"The impact of your generosity has been truly remarkable. Because of your support, our school was able to launch an engaging attendance initiative that helped students feel motivated, connected, and celebrated for showing up to school every day. What started as a simple incentive program became a powerful school-wide movement centered around belonging, encouragement, and the importance of being present.\r\n\r\nThrough this project, we saw meaningful growth in student attendance. We were able to decrease our Chronic Absenteeism rate, moving us closer to our goal of ensuring more students have consistent access to learning, relationships, and opportunities at school. Most importantly, 283 students achieved perfect attendance and were present every single day during the initiative. This accomplishment reflects the dedication of our students, families, and staff—and the positive impact of creating a school culture where attendance is valued and celebrated.\r\n\r\nYour donation helped make this success possible by providing the materials, incentives, and experiences that encouraged students to participate and stay motivated. The impact reached far beyond attendance numbers; students built pride, perseverance, and a stronger connection to their school community. Thank you for investing in our students and helping us create an environment where every day truly counts.","fullyFundedDate":1777132803913,"projectUrl":"project/2nd-annual-every-day-in-may-attendance-i/10183452/","projectTitle":"2nd Annual Every Day in May Attendance Incentive","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McCallum","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp570438_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1635436375751","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-jessie"},{"teacherId":570438,"projectId":10243976,"letterContent":"Because of your generosity, our students now have access to additional books that bring our PurposeFull People social-emotional learning curriculum to life. These new resources have already begun creating meaningful opportunities for students to explore important character traits through stories, conversations, and connections to their own experiences. Having a larger collection of carefully selected books allows our teachers to intentionally choose texts that support lessons around kindness, perseverance, responsibility, respect, and other core character skills.\r\n\r\n\r\nYour support has helped strengthen a culture of learning where students are developing not only as readers, but also as compassionate, thoughtful, and resilient individuals. These books will continue to be used year after year, impacting hundreds of students and supporting our goal of nurturing the whole child. Thank you for helping us build a stronger library and for investing in the social, emotional, and academic growth of our students.","fullyFundedDate":1779286771989,"projectUrl":"project/purposefull-reading-library-take-2/10243976/","projectTitle":"PurposeFull Reading Library Take 2","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McCallum","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp570438_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1635436375751","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-jessie"},{"teacherId":1978426,"projectId":10268822,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to this project. There are so many high quality projects on this wonderful website and I am grateful that you chose mine. With your donation I am able to gift brand new books to every student at my school on their birthdays. All of these books will be added to the Birthday Book Cart for students to choose their birthday book. I love to celebrate all students on their birthday and we are building home libraries as well. To date, with help of donors like you, I have been able to give out over 4,000 books! Thank you again, you are amazing.","fullyFundedDate":1780500607190,"projectUrl":"project/lets-celebrate-with-fiction/10268822/","projectTitle":"Let's Celebrate With Fiction","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McDonough","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1978426_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1504272858842","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1978426"},{"teacherId":1978426,"projectId":10268892,"letterContent":"Thank you so very much for you generous donation to this project. I believe that all children should be celebrated on their birthday and the Reiche Birthday Book Cart does just that. The students were so excited about the books. There was much excitement about the soccer player biographies. \r\nNow that it is the end of the school year there are less books to choose from but not anymore. I am very grateful for your donations and how that allowed me to provide more books to all the children celebrating their birthday.","fullyFundedDate":1779286771323,"projectUrl":"project/lets-celebrate-with-nonfiction/10268892/","projectTitle":"Let's Celebrate with Nonfiction","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McDonough","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1978426_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1504272858842","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1978426"},{"teacherId":8685782,"projectId":10151708,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation. You have helped provide some wonderful books to add to our classroom library.\r\nThe timing was wonderful. It is the end of our year and what a treat to have new books to share with the children.\r\nEach day we end by reading to them while they wait to be picked up. There is nothing better than reading a new book to 16 4/5 year olds!\r\nWe have also used some of them to address some issues that have been dealing with in our classroom. It is a great way to get them talking.\r\nAgain, thank you for your support! We love books in our classroom and you helped proved some fun ones!","fullyFundedDate":1778112385342,"projectUrl":"project/books-books-and-more-books/10151708/","projectTitle":"Books, Books, and More Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carolyn","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8685782_orig.jpg?crop=528,528,x0,y147&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1754004926460","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8685782"},{"teacherId":8962611,"projectId":10263960,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for these brand new Gerald and Piggie books for our school library! I am looking forward to the fall when the books will be finished processing and be out on the library floor for the students to enjoy! I am going to give a few big Gerald and Piggie fans a sneak preview! \r\n\r\nStudents love these books so much, I can't wait to need to get new ones again because this group of books has been checked out by kids so many times. I am truly fortunate to have a community that cares so deeply about the kids at school the same way that I do.","fullyFundedDate":1778037598824,"projectUrl":"project/gerald-and-piggie-books/10263960/","projectTitle":"Gerald and Piggie Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. M","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8962611_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y211&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1774384555081","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8962611"},{"teacherId":139172,"projectId":10243810,"letterContent":"Your generosity in completely funding my proposal at the end of a school year is astounding! Students have snacks and more snacks to choose from. During small group instruction and for the testing that started this week, I was happily prepared with a variety of food. Honestly, they liked the snacks more than my lessons!\r\n\r\nI wish you could hear students exclaiming over the snack bin....\r\n\r\n\"OH WOW! You have GUMMIES! Look at all of them!\"\r\n\r\n\"I love sweet and salty chips! This is the best!!!!\"\r\n\r\n\"Where did you get all this?!\" (To which I explained what Donors Choose and you do for schools.)\r\n\r\nOur time together is happier because of you. I appreciate you- WE appreciate you! Thank you for choosing our project to donate to. You are the best!","fullyFundedDate":1778037598189,"projectUrl":"project/help-feed-hungry-bellies/10243810/","projectTitle":"Help Feed Hungry Bellies!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Provencher","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-provencher"},{"teacherId":1978426,"projectId":10187660,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation to this project. I recently took a class on social and emotional regulation and fidgets were a large part of that. I was able to include fidgets that were (are) being used this year and some that are tucked away for next year. So many students need something in their hands to help them focus and this project did just that. I included tactile objects and visual objects so that more students could be reached. \r\nI was also able to stock up our calm down corner in the room with new and exciting fidgets. This is an area students can go when they need to calm down or just need a break so fidgets are very helpful.","fullyFundedDate":1778017440836,"projectUrl":"project/fidgets-and-supplies/10187660/","projectTitle":"Fidgets and Supplies!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McDonough","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1978426_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1504272858842","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1978426"},{"teacherId":8962611,"projectId":10118515,"letterContent":"thank you so much for the gift of books to my students! These are the most popular books in our school's library, and now we get to reach spanish speaking children as well! Studies show that literacy in multiple languages assists with literacy in secondary languages! \r\nBeing able to provide the books for the spanish speaking kids that the english speaking kids get to read is really a gift that I appreciate more than I can put into words. I absolutely can't wait to see the look on the children's faces when they see the brand new Dog Man books that they can read with their families in their first language.","fullyFundedDate":1773856108707,"projectUrl":"project/dog-man-en-espaol/10118515/","projectTitle":"Dog Man en Español","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. M","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8962611_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y211&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1774384555081","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8962611"},{"teacherId":1978426,"projectId":10140316,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donations to this project. This project was for books and without the right books we are at a loss at school. Now we are able to have reading groups because we have sets of books. The students are so excited to dive into these books and three reading groups started new books on one day!\r\n There is something so wonderful to see students excited to read and discuss a book together as a group. This is a time where students can expand their thinking and widen their views.\r\nThank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1775758405461,"projectUrl":"project/books-books/10140316/","projectTitle":"Books & Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McDonough","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1978426_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1504272858842","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1978426"},{"teacherId":9347355,"projectId":9692119,"letterContent":"I am writing to express my deepest gratitude for your incredible generosity in providing our classroom with the \"Play, Paint, and Create\" materials. When my students first saw the new supplies, they were absolutely thrilled, and the room was filled with excitement as they explored the possibilities. These tools have given my first graders a vital outlet to express themselves through art, which has significantly benefited both their academic growth and their overall sense of belonging in our classroom.\r\n\r\nWe have already put these resources to amazing use! Most recently, the students used the new watercolors to create beautiful paintings inspired by our unit on birds, and they are so proud to see their work displayed for everyone to see. The markers have also become a daily favorite, as the children use them to bring their stories to life with vibrant illustrations in their creative writing journals. During choice time, the \"Play-Doh Cafe\" is officially open for business! One moment that truly touched my heart was watching students use the play dough to create foods from their own cultures; it was wonderful to see a plate of \"Fufu\" served alongside \"Nutella,\" showing just how much these materials allow their unique identities to shine.\r\n\r\nYour support has provided my students with the essential tools for imagination and self-expression. As we move forward, our next steps include a project where the students will use their paints and markers to illustrate \"Bird Books\" for our upcoming classroom publishing party. Thank you for directly impacting these wonderful first graders and for making our classroom a place where creativity truly flourishes.","fullyFundedDate":1766711637355,"projectUrl":"project/play-paint-and-create-tools-for-imagi/9692119/","projectTitle":"Play, Paint, and Create: Tools for Imagination","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Gleeson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9347355_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755790331408","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9347355"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_65272","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":463,"numTeachers":38,"percentFrplEligible":65,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":41,"percentWhite":30,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":21,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":4,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"12.2:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_SMALL"},"inStateSupporters":59.1,"schoolId":65272,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Howard C Reiche Community School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Howard C Reiche Community School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/maine/portland-public-schools/howard-c-reiche-community-school/65272"}