{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Dr Charles Drew Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":59.7,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9643971,"projectId":9740960,"letterContent":"Our students are loving the materials we received. Our spinning chair gets used every single day by multiple students. It has been a blessing to have these sensory options available to help our students regulate when come into school so that our students can be available for learning and to feel comfortable. We use the peanut ball as both a seating option and a sensory tool. The echo microphone gets a lot of use during our whole group time to encourage greater participation in the form of expressive language. Our students also absolutely love the dancing cactus toy. It has been great to see what they would like the cactus to repeat, and ultimately the creative, spontaneous language in our classroom has exploded. Thank you again for providing our students these tools to help them meet their goals while still having fun.","fullyFundedDate":1761086488185,"projectUrl":"project/play-that-speaks-giving-children-tools/9740960/","projectTitle":"Play That Speaks: Giving Children Tools to Find Their Voice","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Domanti","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9643971_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1745627326312","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/katherine-domanti"},{"teacherId":10346108,"projectId":9956881,"letterContent":"Cube chairs will greatly benefit our students by offering safe, supportive seating that encourages comfort, proper posture, and focus during learning. Many young learners need flexible seating options that allow them to stay engaged during small-group instruction, center time, and independent work. Lightweight and versatile, cube chairs enable students to move them easily and use them in different ways throughout the day, promoting independence and choice. By adding these chairs, we can create a more inclusive, flexible, and welcoming classroom environment where every student has a seat that supports participation, confidence, and academic success.","fullyFundedDate":1766720659641,"projectUrl":"project/cube-chairs-for-calm-cozy-learning/9956881/","projectTitle":"Cube Chairs for Calm & Cozy Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Moradel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10346108_orig.png?crop=1024,1024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1762571322324","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/missmoradel"},{"teacherId":10346108,"projectId":9956528,"letterContent":"Dramatic play materials such as dolls, kitchen toys, and cleaning supplies provide students with meaningful, hands-on experiences that support social, emotional, and language development. Through role-playing real-life situations, students practice cooperation, communication, empathy, and responsibility while strengthening fine-motor skills. Dolls encourage nurturing behaviors, and pretend cooking and cleaning activities build independence and problem-solving abilities. These materials create opportunities for creativity, imagination, and self-expression in a safe, supportive classroom environment. By engaging in dramatic play, students develop confidence, joy, and essential life skills, fostering both academic growth and social-emotional learning every day.","fullyFundedDate":1767176010438,"projectUrl":"project/little-learners-big-imaginations/9956528/","projectTitle":"Little Learners, Big Imaginations","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Moradel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10346108_orig.png?crop=1024,1024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1762571322324","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/missmoradel"},{"teacherId":10346108,"projectId":9925850,"letterContent":"Jelly Blox and soft foam shapes give students a safe, hands-on way to explore building, problem-solving, and creativity. They strengthen fine motor skills, spatial awareness, and early engineering thinking while supporting sensory-friendly play. Using these materials promotes teamwork, communication, and imaginative exploration. Students design, stack, and experiment confidently, learning through joyful play that enhances both academic skills and social-emotional growth in a fun, engaging way. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1765679695784,"projectUrl":"project/soft-blocks-for-big-imaginations/9925850/","projectTitle":"Soft Blocks for Big Imaginations","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Moradel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10346108_orig.png?crop=1024,1024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1762571322324","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/missmoradel"},{"teacherId":10346108,"projectId":9908884,"letterContent":"Pluffle supports students' social-emotional needs by providing a soft, moldable, calming sensory tool. Students use it during transitions, independent work, and moments of overwhelm to feel grounded, regulate emotions, and focus. It reduces anxiety, restlessness, and impulsivity, helping students engage in learning. Students love its texture, use it independently, and show improved self-regulation, attention, and confidence. Pluffle creates a positive, supportive classroom where all students feel safe and ready to learn.","fullyFundedDate":1765482925639,"projectUrl":"project/pluffle-power-building-calm-happy-litt/9908884/","projectTitle":"Pluffle Power: Building Calm, Happy Little Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Moradel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10346108_orig.png?crop=1024,1024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1762571322324","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/missmoradel"},{"teacherId":10346108,"projectId":9956399,"letterContent":"A concentration kit that includes desk partitions, noise-reducing headphones, and organizational tools actively supports how students learn each day in our classroom. While many donors are familiar with technology in the home, this classroom technology works by intentionally shaping the learning environment to improve focus, independence, and access to instruction. The desk partitions reduce visual distractions and help students attend to their own work rather than the movement and materials around them. Noise-reducing headphones minimize background sounds during independent work, small-group rotations, and assessments, allowing students to sustain attention for longer periods of time. Organizational tools ensure materials are clearly labeled and easily accessible, reducing lost instructional time and frustration. Together, these tools help students regulate their attention and sensory input so they can fully engage in reading, writing, math, and problem-solving tasks. When students are able to focus and organize their learning space, they complete work more efficiently, build confidence, and demonstrate what they truly know.\r\n\r\nStudents are especially excited about the concentration kit because it gives them ownership over their learning and helps them feel successful. They independently choose when to set up their partition, use headphones, or organize their materials, which promotes self-awareness and responsibility. Many students describe feeling calmer and more prepared to learn when using the kit. Students who struggle with attention, sensory sensitivities, or anxiety show noticeable improvements in focus, stamina, and task completion. Students with executive functioning or fine motor challenges benefit from having materials within reach and a structured workspace that reduces overwhelm. Even students without identified learning needs respond positively, recognizing that everyone benefits from a quiet, organized environment. The concentration kit creates a classroom culture where all learners feel supported, capable, and motivated to do their best work, making it an impactful and meaningful investment in student success.","fullyFundedDate":1765664773539,"projectUrl":"project/concentration-success-kit/9956399/","projectTitle":"Concentration Success Kit!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Moradel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10346108_orig.png?crop=1024,1024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1762571322324","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/missmoradel"},{"teacherId":8907541,"projectId":9886118,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project for our school's community of readers. These new books centering inventors, innovators, and science and mathematics content have generated so much excitement! As soon as they hit the shelves, readers started to check them out to read and enjoy. We have a number of biography fans and they were especially interested in the books about the female astronauts. Along with the arrival of winter weather, The Power of Snow has been especially popular. And, I had a first grader specifically ask for a book about black holes, so he was thrilled to take This Book Is Full of Holes home with him.\r\n\r\nThese books will also directly support and supplement content instruction for our readers. They love to borrow books that match what they're learning about in their classrooms! Our fourth graders will be starting their unit on inventors shortly and the books about kid inventors, Jacques Cousteau, and Hedy Lamarr will help them to take a deep dive into the thinking of inventors. Second graders will be studying aviators, so the book about Mary Myers will be a perfect fit to help build knowledge.\r\n\r\nThank you again for helping to provide our readers with books that will help them to grow as readers, thinkers, and creators as they build their knowledge about STEM topics.","fullyFundedDate":1763405419825,"projectUrl":"project/stem-stories/9886118/","projectTitle":"STEM Stories","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tecler","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-tecler"},{"teacherId":8907541,"projectId":9818716,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project for our school's community of readers. Making it easy to access books has a significant impact on reading and the bins from this project have definitely improved access to books for our youngest readers. We added large labels to the bins and filled them with books that match the label. Instead of searching for popular themes and topics in a sea of titles on our shelves, readers can go right to the bin with books that they are interested in reading. \r\n\r\nRight now, our most popular bins are Christmas books, holiday books, funny books, and scary books. We also have bins with books that connect to content our kindergarten, first and second grade students are learning about in their classrooms so that if they want to read or learn more about a topic, the books are at their fingertips. \r\n\r\nThank you again for helping us to grow our school's youngest readers and build excitement about reading!","fullyFundedDate":1761131033502,"projectUrl":"project/book-bins-to-build-bookworms/9818716/","projectTitle":"Book Bins to Build Bookworms","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tecler","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-tecler"},{"teacherId":8907541,"projectId":9902660,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project for our school's makerspace program. Our students have been enjoying all of the new supplies.\r\n\r\nThe games have been very popular in our library and makerspace. There is always a group playing Spot It! and the magic snake cube fidget toys are constantly in use. I promised a few students that I'd show them how to make the snake into a sphere once I remember how I used to do it with the magic snake cube toy I had when I was growing up. That might earn me a few \"cool\" points!\r\n\r\nThe glue, beads, elastic, and washi tape have already been put to good use in the makerspace for holiday card and gift making. Lots of pretty bracelets and funky fidgets have already gone home to be given to family and friends. We've also been using the circle punch and cardstock with our button maker to create custom buttons. The mesh pouches have been helpful for keeping everything organized and easy to put away at the end of makerspace time.\r\n\r\nThank you again for helping to provide our students with supplies to help them practice their problem solving and critical thinking skills and explore their creativity in a variety of ways.","fullyFundedDate":1763583604468,"projectUrl":"project/materials-and-more-for-our-makerspace/9902660/","projectTitle":"Materials and More for Our Makerspace","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tecler","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-tecler"},{"teacherId":8907541,"projectId":9866796,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project for our school's community of readers. Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries are among the most popular books with our readers, so having new copies of some of the books in each series has generated lots of excitement. One reader was so thrilled to see the new Dork Diaries books on the shelf that she ran over and grabbed her favorite book off the shelf and hugged it! These beloved books are helping our readers to grow their reading skills as they build a foundation for a lifelong love of reading. Thank you again for your contribution.","fullyFundedDate":1762291787942,"projectUrl":"project/our-diaries-are-a-disaster/9866796/","projectTitle":"Our Diaries Are a Disaster!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tecler","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-tecler"},{"teacherId":8907541,"projectId":9717876,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project for our school's community of readers. As the holidays approach, readers are drawn to these books about celebrations and traditions. Readers ask multiple times a day about checking out holiday books and these books have helped to make sure we have enough books to go around.\r\nThere has been a lot of interest in A City Full of Santas by Joanna Ho. With the support of a local independent book store, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to host Ms. Ho for an in person author visit in October, so our readers were beside themselves with excitement when they saw that she had written a holiday book. It has been borrowed constantly since it arrived.\r\nI am also appreciative of the opportunity this project has provided to increase reader access to books about a diverse range of traditions and celebrations. Books like One Diwali Day and Eight Sweet Nights give our readers a window into traditions that they may not be familiar with, helping them to build a better understanding of the world around them. \r\nThank you again for helping us to spread holiday joy and cheer through books!","fullyFundedDate":1760229908458,"projectUrl":"project/books-to-make-us-merry-and-bright/9717876/","projectTitle":"Books To Make Us Merry and Bright","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tecler","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-tecler"},{"teacherId":1492770,"projectId":9175201,"letterContent":"Each day as we studied the beginnings of American independence, I donned the tricorne hat that was part of our DonorsChoose materials. The students knew then that we were going back in time. If I forget the hat, a chorus of little voices would remind me. \"Aren't we continuing the story? I want to know what happens next!\"\r\n\r\nThe replica of the Constitution allowed the students to see the bold signatures of the men we studied. (We also studied influential women of the time period.) When we used the quills to write our own names on parchment, the students added flourishes just like the founding fathers had done.\r\n\r\nThank you very much for you contribution to our learning. Having realia truly makes history come alive. My students and I appreciate your generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1742685504517,"projectUrl":"project/american-independence-comes-alive/9175201/","projectTitle":"American Independence Comes Alive!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ahmed-Morton","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1492770"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_56201","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":485,"numTeachers":38,"percentFrplEligible":65,"percentAsian":10,"percentBlack":46,"percentWhite":8,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":29,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"12.8:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":40.3,"schoolId":56201,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Dr Charles Drew Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Dr Charles Drew Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/maryland/montgomery-county-public-schools/dr-charles-drew-elementary-school/56201"}