{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"East African Elementary Magnet School","outOfStateSupporters":37.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9983091,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping me get these books for students! The school I work at just opened three years ago and when the school opened, there was no middle school, so new books were purchased for middle school students. They started the middle school last year, so we have very few middle school books in the library currently. Many students ask for them and they are so excited to read them. Thank you so much for providing these books for students. They have been loving reading them already.\r\n\r\nStudents will return these books to the library when they are done reading and students at the school will get to enjoy these books for many years to come. Thank you for helping create excitement around literacy and reading in the school. My middle school students were thrilled to have these books to read in the library.","fullyFundedDate":1768507565973,"projectUrl":"project/new-middle-school-books-for-library/9983091/","projectTitle":"New Middle School Books for Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9832955,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to support my school community and the school library. The books in this project are books that are so popular with my students, there is frequently zero on the library shelves because many students want to check them out. These new copies make it so more students can read through the series of books they are interested in quicker. My students were so excited to see more of these books on the shelves when they visited the library. Thank you for providing my students with so much joy in what has been a challenging time for many of them. I saw so many of my 3rd-7th graders faces lights up when they saw these new books on the shelf. Thank you for your generosity and support of the school!","fullyFundedDate":1767196653267,"projectUrl":"project/more-popular-titles-in-the-school-librar/9832955/","projectTitle":"More Popular Titles in the School Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9824094,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations! Your donations made it for possible for me to get more books students requested for the school library. The books your donations purchased were graphic novels, picture books, and chapter books that so many students have been asking for in the library. Students are very excited about these new books in the library and they are already loving reading them. They all got checked out almost immediately after I put them on our bookshelves. This is helping to promote literacy throughout our school. It is also ensuring that students have access to books that they want to read!\r\n\r\nStudents take these books home and return them, so students at the school can enjoy the books you purchased for many years. Your donations will also help ensure these students have access to books they can read and want to read at home. Thank you for helping make the school library a better place where more students have books they are excited to read!","fullyFundedDate":1767621897322,"projectUrl":"project/promoting-literacy-with-new-books-for-sc/9824094/","projectTitle":"Promoting Literacy with New Books for School Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9877270,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations! My students were so excited to have these new books in the library. My middle school students have been loving checking out the Click and Besties series in the school library. My elementary students have been loving the Gingerbread Man series. These graphic novels have helped spark joy for my students.\r\n\r\nYour donation helped me provide new titles students have been asking for in the library and get them to students quickly. My students and I really appreciate your generosity and your support of the school library.","fullyFundedDate":1767934477329,"projectUrl":"project/graphic-novels-promoting-love-for-litera/9877270/","projectTitle":"Graphic Novels Promoting Love for Literacy","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9905936,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations! These materials will be used, so my students can create magnetic bookmarks, stickers, buttons, and paper bookmarks in the growing library makerspace. My elementary students are really excited to get to design their own bookmarks. I will also let them make buttons from their own designs and damaged books, so there are more elementary friendly projects for my students to do in the library.\r\n\r\nMy middle school students will be designing a sticker in the style of a book genre of their choosing using elements of the genre after we finish our genre unit in the library. Students are so excited to design their stickers and have stickers of their own artwork. Thank you for making that possible for my students. My students and I are so grateful!","fullyFundedDate":1767193808324,"projectUrl":"project/creating-in-the-library-makerspace/9905936/","projectTitle":"Creating in the Library Makerspace","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9931110,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations! Your donations were able to supply my students with a new Bambu 3D printer for the library makerspace. My 6th and 7th graders are so excited to get to use the printer and learn how to design items to 3D print. I will teach students how to use Tinkercad to design an object to 3D print and all of my 6th and 7th graders will create something.\r\n\r\nMy students are creative and thrilled to get the opportunity to learn to 3D print. My students would not be able to this without your generous donations! Thank you for supporting the school library and providing my students with so much joy!","fullyFundedDate":1764734715591,"projectUrl":"project/3d-printing-in-library-makerspace/9931110/","projectTitle":"3D Printing in Library Makerspace","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":8433130,"projectId":9475328,"letterContent":"We want to send a big thank you for your generous donations to our 2nd grade classroom! Because of your kindness, every student now has their very own set of supplies — including pencil boxes, crayons, glue sticks, and colored pencils.\r\n\r\nThe excitement on our students' faces when they opened their new supplies was priceless. Having these tools helps everyone feel prepared, creative, and ready to learn together. Your support makes a huge difference in creating a classroom where every child can succeed and feel special.\r\n\r\nThank you again for investing in our students and their learning!","fullyFundedDate":1758568548142,"projectUrl":"project/supplies-for-all-studnets/9475328/","projectTitle":"Supplies for All Studnets","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Emily","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8433130_orig.jpg?crop=1503,1504,x0,y75&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659804048609","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/msemilyp"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9719920,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation to this project! These materials will provide prizes for my students in the library. My students were so excited to see these prizes! I will use these prizes to award students who read 100 books over the school year and the smaller prizes will be used to reward students who return all of their library books.\r\n\r\nThese prizes have helped motivate students to look for their library books and read more. It has created a lot of excitement around the library and reading in our school. Thank you for your generous donation!","fullyFundedDate":1764728422988,"projectUrl":"project/prizes-for-students-in-school-library/9719920/","projectTitle":"Prizes for Students in School Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9780493,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing these books to my students in the school library. These books will be available for students to checkout in the library. I will also many of them like Grumpy Monkey and The Skull as read alouds when students visit the library. I already read The Skull with my 3rd-5th grade students and they loved the book! They are so excited to be able to check out the book in the library.\r\n\r\nMy students and I are thrilled to have these new books in our school library. I used The Skull to talk about folktales with my students. Thank you for making it possible for my students to check out these books in the library!","fullyFundedDate":1762646002510,"projectUrl":"project/new-picture-books-for-read-alouds-in-sch/9780493/","projectTitle":"New Picture Books for Read Alouds in School Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9761942,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing these materials for students. These Cricut materials will allow for middle school students to design their own stickers and get their designs printed in our growing library makerspace. I also used the sticker paper to print some stickers of favorite book characters for my elementary students. \r\n\r\nI will use the transfer tape and vinyl for other future projects in the makerspace with students. The books about 3D printing and Cricut projects will be available for students to check out in the library to get inspiration on what they can create. Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1759459852160,"projectUrl":"project/supplies-for-library-makerspace/9761942/","projectTitle":"Supplies for Library Makerspace","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9689768,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to the school library. Your donation supplied me with a Cricut for the library. Students were very excited to see it in the library and can't wait to use it. I will use the Cricut to have middle schoolers design stickers inspired by genres after teaching them book genres. Thank you for making it possible for me to do that with my students, they are very excited about it. I will also use the Cricut to create new signage and update bulletin boards in the library.","fullyFundedDate":1758805575410,"projectUrl":"project/creating-a-makerspace-in-school-library/9689768/","projectTitle":"Creating a Makerspace in School Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"},{"teacherId":9294339,"projectId":9652503,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing these books for the school library! I am so excited to read these books with students. I read one of these titles, There's a Ghost in This House with students already. They loved this book and students are already asking me when they can checkout the book in the library. I will now be able to read all of these books with students as read alouds in the library and have them available in the library for book checkout.\r\n\r\nThank you for your generous donations and making it possible for students to read these books in the library. I am grateful, as well as the students at our school.","fullyFundedDate":1758805573848,"projectUrl":"project/new-picture-books-for-read-alouds-in-sch/9652503/","projectTitle":"New Picture Books for Read Alouds in School Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/eastafricanlibrary"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_131976","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":296,"numTeachers":null,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":2,"percentBlack":95,"percentWhite":1,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":0,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 6","studentTeacherRatio":null,"demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":62.2,"schoolId":131976,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about East African Elementary Magnet School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"East African Elementary Magnet School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/minnesota/saint-paul-public-schools/east-african-elementary-magnet-school/131976"}