{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Roosevelt High School","outOfStateSupporters":29.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9819203,"projectId":9860615,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting the project to help the Roosevelt High School health office. The items we received were greatly appreciated by students and staff as it increased their ability to stay in class or in school. \r\n\r\nThe mints and jolly ranchers are the best alternative we have to give students with sore throats during cold season as we arent allowed to give out cough drops or medicated items due to state laws. These hard candies helped soothe their throats long enough to keep them at school.\r\n\r\nThe deodorant helped students who struggle with obtaining items at home. Having them to give increased their confidence and put a big smile on their faces.","fullyFundedDate":1761666243283,"projectUrl":"project/supplies-for-health-office/9860615/","projectTitle":"Supplies for Health Office","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hanson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9819203"},{"teacherId":9818083,"projectId":9533596,"letterContent":"Thank you for your kind support of my classroom. I teach a small math intervention class for high school students where we work to develop confidence and skills in mathematics. My students' mathematics abilities are still impacted by the Covid disruption and we are working to help fill in some of the gaps that they still have from that time of irregular instruction they had in late elementary school. My students are getting better at multiplication, division, fractions, area, volume, and perimeter problems. I focus on giving students lots of choice about the types of numbers they get to work with. I call them \"just right\" numbers. As we are are moving into the fourth week of school this year, I am seeing my students start to stretch themselves and select numbers that are bigger or include decimals or fractions. \r\n\r\nPart of what has made them comfortable enough to do this is that our classroom meets their basic needs. Thank you for providing tissues, Clorox wipes, glue sticks, and pencils for my students. These resources have helped to create a space where we meet student needs and have helped to get us through the first round of sickness at my school.","fullyFundedDate":1754692807547,"projectUrl":"project/return-to-a-great-space/9533596/","projectTitle":"Return to a Great Space","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wernimont","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9818083"},{"teacherId":9821401,"projectId":8912575,"letterContent":"The impact of these materials this year has been vast and wonderful. I was able to procure many sensory materials and fidget items which are difficult to come by in high school settings. These materials help students handle stress and focus during difficult tasks and big feelings. \r\n\r\nBecause of my position in my school I often have students coming into my classroom asking for individual help on projects and assignments. They usually come to me very stressed. Many times this year they would come in and pick up a Yuck-E Ball and use it to help manage stress as we worked through the assignment together. I also had a student say to me \"I'm glad we have this [abiliputty] because I struggle with fine motor. It makes my hands hurt, but this is a fun way to help with that.\"\r\n\r\nThese materials have been invaluable this year and I am so grateful to have them in my classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1741015766369,"projectUrl":"project/mental-health-resources-for-high-schoole/8912575/","projectTitle":"Mental Health Resources for High Schoolers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Britany","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9821401"},{"teacherId":9903793,"projectId":9073327,"letterContent":"I wanted to express my gratitude for the materials donation that you gave me. I have asked help purchasing a few items that had been on my list for a long time. \r\n\r\nOne of the items on the list was a mechanical timer that I am using every day to have students manage the time we have for tasks. After an update on our smart boards software, we are unable to use the electronic timer while slides are frozen, so having a simple, graphic timer has been a good addition.\r\n\r\nMy students were especially excited to see the fidget objects that I added to the classroom. I noticed how the use of cell phones has decreased, as for some students having something to manipulate is enough to keep them paying attention to lessons. The box you helped me purchase, has different options that they can choose from.\r\n\r\nAs another school year comes to an end, I'm glad that I won't have to think about these materials next year, as they are now part of my classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1738724081150,"projectUrl":"project/help-me-with-a-years-long-list-for-diff/9073327/","projectTitle":"Help Me With a Year's Long List for Different Needs","teacherDisplayName":"Prof. Stabrino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9903793"},{"teacherId":9818083,"projectId":9172739,"letterContent":"Thanks for supporting my project. During the heavy testing season that happens in May, it has been very nice to offer my students nice materials to color with while they are waiting for other students to finish their assessments. \r\n\r\nIt is fun to see my student's immediate change in energy after their exams when they are given the chance to select coloring tools to keep them occupied. It was especially nice this time when students who had requested different materials a few months ago saw the materials and were so happy to use them. It is fun to see how carefully they work and how proud they are of their work. \r\n\r\nThanks for helping my students see that they can ask for something reasonable and that adults in the world can help get it to them.","fullyFundedDate":1746545440660,"projectUrl":"project/meeting-student-requests-for-classroom-c/9172739/","projectTitle":"Meeting Student Requests for Classroom Coloring/Drawing Materials","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wernimont","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9818083"},{"teacherId":3525415,"projectId":8938865,"letterContent":"Thank you for your enormous support of the Roosevelt Culinary Arts teaching kitchen! We are so excited about our brand-new cookbook collection; it has already had a meaningful impact on the way our students are cooking and learning together!\r\nInitially, we began this project to fortify our Chef and Cookbook Report. During this assignment, students are tasked with researching a chef or cuisine and creating a poster showcasing what they've learned. In the digital age, it is harder than ever to teach students ethical research skills; we wanted students to get back to engaging with texts rather than skimming over Wikipedia articles. We started checking cookbooks out from the library during this project and asked students to read the introduction of their chosen cookbook, as well as identify a few recipes that looked delicious and interesting. Since introducing physical texts into this project, the work the students produced has become much more rich, meaningful, and personally connected. We truly believe that having the texts in their hands has encouraged students to make a more meaningful and memorable connection with their learning. Having our own cookbook collection in our teaching kitchen makes this type of learning possible all of the time, even when we're not focused on the Chef and Cookbook Report. \r\nJust last week, a student dropped in during lunch to consult with us about how to improve the curry he was working on at home. This student spent his lunch hour pouring over our Indian and South Asian cookbooks to absorb as much information as he could in his quest for the perfect curry!\r\nAnother student picked up a baking book off the shelf and used the guidance inside to make the most beautiful plaited loaves of bread for their final project. \r\nThese books encourage curiosity and push students to go beyond what our curriculum has to offer. We're so grateful for your support in helping us secure a classroom library that inspires creativity in our kitchen!","fullyFundedDate":1741106546928,"projectUrl":"project/culinary-arts-cookbook-collection/8938865/","projectTitle":"Culinary Arts Cookbook Collection","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carlyn","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3525415_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1457887957694","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jeffersongoescamping"},{"teacherId":9820820,"projectId":8911478,"letterContent":"Thank you, again, for your generous donations to my classroom. I have been using the Social Emotional Learning curriculum books to develop lessons and we have been having excellent conversations, and I feel I have been able to give students tools they can actually use in their lives. We have been focused on emotional regulation tools recently, and I have made excellent use of all the amazing art supplies you donated! Students have been painting, drawing, puzzling, and fidgeting to help them maintain stability. We recently did a project where students were feeling agitated by things that had been going on nationally and we decided we would paint out our feelings. It was a really restorative day, and students reported feeling calmer after painting for 30 minutes. \r\nSoon we are going to begin a project where students will make a gift for someone they love by drafting and painting a picture onto pieces of wood. We have a construction class here and they have a lot of extra scrap wood, so to reduce waste we are going to use them in our classroom. Students are excited to create something with someone else in mind. We will be focused on the power of gratitude on our emotional wellbeing. In our next unit we are going to focus on the \"practicality\" of art and will be sewing! Students are excited and have already started planning out their projects and looking through the fabric squares to get inspired. \r\nThank you so much for prioritizing mental health and social and emotional learning curriculum. It is really important, but under-funded and supported, and I can see what a difference it makes for my students to get direct instruction and learn and TRY various activities and tools for emotional regulation.","fullyFundedDate":1731701604733,"projectUrl":"project/social-emotional-art-exploration/8911478/","projectTitle":"Social Emotional Art Exploration","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Apple","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9820820"},{"teacherId":9818083,"projectId":8915515,"letterContent":"Thanks for your support of my project. The materials have arrived. I was able to use them during our recent end of semester finals. \r\n\r\nAfter the exam, my students were able to choose a coloring sheet to unwind with while other students were finishing their exams. Although I was not able to get the original markers I had selected, the replacements have worked fine. Only having two sets of markers has encouraged students to share. Students enjoyed having higher quality paper and markers to work with. \r\n\r\nMy student who had originally asked for these materials was pleasantly surprised. It was great to be able to share them with him. It was nice for him to be able to see that it was possible to ask for something reasonable and then get that reasonable request. As you can see from the pictures, students have started these sheets with great care. As we take exams throughout this semester, they will continue to add to their work.","fullyFundedDate":1735329340654,"projectUrl":"project/markers-cardstock-and-fidgets-help-stu/8915515/","projectTitle":"Markers, Cardstock, and Fidgets Help Students Express and Manage Feelings","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Wernimont","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9818083"},{"teacherId":9822018,"projectId":8913428,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the Classroom Resources! We have been using the whiteboards during our sexual health education series, so the kids can write down their responses and share them by showing the board rather than by having to speak something out loud that might be embarrassing for them. The whiteboards also allow me to walk through the classroom and see a variety of responses from multiple students without having to single out who is saying what.\r\nI have stored materials for making friendship bracelets in the small blue containers. And the larger containers are used to store specific lesson plans and materials. See the pictures for more detail","fullyFundedDate":1730568530298,"projectUrl":"project/lets-share-our-learning/8913428/","projectTitle":"Let’s Share Our Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. SJ","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9822018"},{"teacherId":9819145,"projectId":8971648,"letterContent":"It has been so wonderful to have all of these fidget resources available to my students. I have a variety of them out at all of my tables, and immediately when students come in, they are drawn to the fidgets and begin to play. It is a fantastic ice breaker and helps students to relax and it gives us something to talk about. \r\n\r\nOne of the fidgets in particular has been a hit with a couple of ninth grade boys. It's a Shashibo, and it's an unusual sort of puzzle fidget. They walked by my room and saw it on my table and they decided to stop in. I didn't really know how it worked but one of the boys was an expert at it. So much so, that he told me that he has 31 of them! He started stopping by every day after school and would bring in different ones that he had and would show me how they all worked together when you had different multiples of them. He was like a wizard with them and every day our conversations became more and more in depth about not just the Shashibo, but about life and choices and the Shashibo was just a way for us to connect while we were able to talk about lots of other things. It provided a nice way for us to get to know each other. Without the grant, I would not have bought the Shashibo and I would not have gotten to know him, so I am very grateful for the gift of this fidget and the opportunity to get to know this student. \r\n\r\nI will continue to keep a variety of the fidgets out, and I will rotate them to keep them \"fresh\". I am sincerely grateful that you were able to fund this for me, and that it has allowed me to connect with my students on a fun level, but then on a more relational level as well.","fullyFundedDate":1733180598814,"projectUrl":"project/fidgets-to-help-us-concentrate/8971648/","projectTitle":"Fidgets to Help Us Concentrate!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wernimont","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9819145"},{"teacherId":9819122,"projectId":8910461,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for funding our class project: \"Urban Agriculture-- City Kids Get Growing!\" My students immediately gravitated toward the texts \"Heroes of the Environment\" and \"10 Ideas to Save the Planet.\" \r\n\r\nWe started our hydroponic garden in the dreary depths of February, and we loved watching sprouts come to life. My class chose to make guacamole with the cilantro we grew, and we all agreed it was delicious (and extra tasty knowing we'd grown it in house). At the end of the school year we made mosaic tile pots in which to take home some of our plants.\r\n\r\nOur class discussed the connection between food and mental health, filled out \"report cards\" for snacks available at our school, and used art supplies to make a depiction of a meal for mental health.","fullyFundedDate":1732731452691,"projectUrl":"project/urban-agriculture-city-kids-get-growin/8910461/","projectTitle":"Urban Agriculture-- City Kids Get Growing!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Matson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9819122"},{"teacherId":9819122,"projectId":8908617,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation. We used art materials for two recent projects: original fairy tales and vision boards for 2025. \r\n\r\nWatching my students use Legos was eye-opening. Students who are visual learners were able to succeed in a task that didn't measure reading or writing ability! They created Magic Lego Flowers and used them as a basis for their original fairy tales during our \"Magic Fish\"/ Magic Flower unit.\r\n\r\nWhen my students created their vision boards for 2025, they were able to use art supplies like mixed media paper and stickers. The held a vigorous discussion about teens and goal-setting and whether identity is fixed or evolving. While they made vision boards, I noticed their calm and focused demeanors.\r\n\r\nStudents also created artistic representations of texts we read in my specialized English classes. For example, the novel \"All American Boys\" covers topics such as police brutality and racism. The art materials you provided gave my students many options to make a portrait of Rashad, the main character of the book.\r\n\r\nOver the last several months, my students have accessed sensory tools to help with emotional regulation. We played games to build community and trust within a safe and welcoming environment. With items like the \"Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Card Deck: 55 Practices for Confident and Thriving Kids\" and \"Letz Talk, Conversations for Teens,\" the students I work with have increased their habits for positive mental health at school.","fullyFundedDate":1730298047299,"projectUrl":"project/creative-expression-for-students-with-di/8908617/","projectTitle":"Creative Expression for Students with Disabilities","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Matson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9819122"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_75411","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":1239,"numTeachers":70,"percentFrplEligible":57,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":15,"percentWhite":46,"percentIndigenous":2,"percentLatinx":29,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"17.7:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":70.7,"schoolId":75411,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Roosevelt High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Roosevelt High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/minnesota/minneapolis-public-schools/roosevelt-high-school/75411"}