{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Del Webb Middle School","outOfStateSupporters":17.2,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":6720630,"projectId":10576297,"letterContent":"I am truly grateful for your generosity of this gift! For YEARS, I have had students without access to color printers, and I do not have rights to the color printers at my school for their use. To finally be able to print out the student projects in color means so much to me, my students and their families! Students who are \"artistically challenged\" are able to still produce high quality digital work that can be printed and shown with pride for all to see.\r\n\r\nBeyond using this tool as a way to print out their projects, I am also planning on using the color printer to create goodies for my students for the holidays. I have seen other teachers make gift tags, notecards or even personalized messages for their students and I cannot wait to explore the ways to further enhance the magic in my classroom!\r\n\r\nA million thanks for this gift of color, and I wish you and your teams the happiest of years!","fullyFundedDate":1788564682890,"projectUrl":"project/projects-in-full-color/10576297/","projectTitle":"Projects in Full Color","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hallman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6720630_orig.jpg?crop=420,420,x0,y36&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1566232970866","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6720630"},{"teacherId":8119923,"projectId":10552043,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us create a healthier classroom environment for our students! As a middle school science teacher, I want my classroom to be a place where students can feel comfortable, focus on learning, and explore the world around them. With the addition of our new air purifier, we are taking an important step toward improving the air quality in our classroom, where students spend so much of their day learning and working together.\r\n\r\nMy students spend their days conducting experiments, collaborating with classmates, and engaging in hands-on science activities. Having an air purifier running in our classroom is an added layer of support in creating a more comfortable learning environment for all of them. It may not be the most exciting piece of science equipment at first glance, but it serves as a great reminder that science can also be used to improve our everyday lives.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my students and helping make our classroom a better place to learn. Your generosity allows me to provide resources that I might not otherwise be able to purchase for my classroom. I truly appreciate everyone who contributed to making this project possible!","fullyFundedDate":1788442271252,"projectUrl":"project/creating-a-cleaner-healthier-learning-e/10552043/","projectTitle":"Creating a Cleaner, Healthier Learning Environment","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Parisi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8119923"},{"teacherId":6510733,"projectId":10576567,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for funding our project, The Basics for a New School Year! Because of your generosity, we received the supplies needed to help support student growth and success. When the boxes arrived in our classroom, my students' eyes lit up. \r\n\r\nWe put the new resources to work immediately. The tape, spirals, and various supplies are used daily and help support the systems we have in place.\r\n\r\nWe could not have unlocked this level of engagement without your support. Thank you for supporting education!","fullyFundedDate":1788564878701,"projectUrl":"project/the-basics-for-a-new-school-year/10576567/","projectTitle":"The Basics for a New School Year","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Bettis","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6510733"},{"teacherId":8126292,"projectId":10480943,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our \"Novel Study\" project! Your generosity has made such a meaningful difference in our classroom. My students truly enjoyed reading The Hunger Games, and having access to the books gave them the opportunity to strengthen their reading comprehension and literary analysis skills. Throughout the novel, students discussed characters, conflicts, themes, and important events in small groups, sharing their ideas and supporting their thinking with evidence from the text.\r\n\r\nAfter finishing the novel, we watched the movie adaptation and completed a compare-and-contrast assignment. Students were excited to identify the similarities and differences between the novel and movie and discuss why filmmakers may have made certain changes. They also brought the story to life by creating a Hunger Games bulletin board using coloring pages inspired by the novel. They loved seeing their work displayed and took pride in helping decorate our classroom.\r\n\r\nThe additional items from this project have helped make our classroom more colorful, organized, and welcoming. Most importantly, this project gave my students opportunities to read, discuss, create, and connect with literature in meaningful ways. Thank you for investing in my students and helping me create learning experiences that build their skills, confidence, and excitement about reading. Your kindness and generosity are truly appreciated!","fullyFundedDate":1786758226766,"projectUrl":"project/novel-study/10480943/","projectTitle":"Novel Study","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. LaRocca","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8126292_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1790297830860","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8126292"},{"teacherId":9360915,"projectId":10577981,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting my 8th grade ELA classroom! Having access to reliable technology gives my students opportunities to research, write, revise, and complete digital assignments. It also helps me provide lessons and resources that would be difficult to manage without a dependable computer.\r\n\r\nI'm especially excited to have technology that I can rely on during class. It will help me give students opportunities to use technology as a tool for learning while still focusing on reading, writing, and thinking. Thank you for helping make this possible for my students!","fullyFundedDate":1788571966829,"projectUrl":"project/empowering-8th-grade-writers-tech-drive/10577981/","projectTitle":"Empowering 8th Grade Writers: Tech-Driven Literacy & Research","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mellos","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9360915"},{"teacherId":9360915,"projectId":10304762,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping bring new books into our classroom! These books give my students choices and opportunities to read stories that interest them. As we read, students practice making connections, understanding characters, discussing themes, and supporting their ideas with evidence from the text.\r\n\r\nReading in our classroom means talking about books, sharing ideas, and sometimes getting caught up in a good story. Having new books available helps more students find something they want to read. Thank you for helping my students become stronger and more confident readers!","fullyFundedDate":1782417985779,"projectUrl":"project/opening-minds-through-books/10304762/","projectTitle":"Opening Minds Through Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mellos","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9360915"},{"teacherId":7852377,"projectId":10032210,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for bringing Ghost by Jason Reynolds into our 7th-grade classroom! Your generosity has truly transformed our reading community and sparked a newfound love for literature among my students. Before receiving these books, many of my students struggled to see themselves as \"readers.\" They often had difficulty connecting with traditional classroom texts. However, the moment they met Castle \"Ghost\" Crenshaw—a character who looks, talks, and navigates life just like many of them do—everything changed.\r\n\r\nYour gift did so much more than just provide copies of a book; you provided my 7th graders with a mirror to see their own potential and a window to understand the world around them. Thank you for investing in their education and their futures!","fullyFundedDate":1768703457269,"projectUrl":"project/sprinting-through-literature-a-class-se/10032210/","projectTitle":"Sprinting Through Literature: a Class Set of Ghost","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Boyle","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7852377"},{"teacherId":9350272,"projectId":10603535,"letterContent":"Our new performance-ready resources are already making a difference in our dance classroom! My dancers were so excited to see the supplies arrive because they know that being a great dancer is about more than learning choreography—it is about being prepared, taking care of one another, and taking pride in how we represent our school. Students are using the hair ties, bobby pins, and hair nets to secure their hair for rehearsals and performances, while the performance socks help them feel as a unified team for their hip hop routine. The cleaning supplies are also helping us keep our studio clean and ready for movement every day. These may seem like small resources, but they make a huge difference when you have a classroom of 125 dancers preparing to perform!\r\n\r\nOur next step is putting these resources into action as we continue preparing for performances throughout the school year. Students are learning that preparation is part of performance, from having their hair secured and their dancewear ready to keeping our shared space clean and taking care of the materials we use. These resources allow every student to come prepared and feel confident, regardless of what they may have access to at home. I am so grateful that our donors chose to invest in my dancers and help create a classroom where students can learn, grow, support one another, and truly shine on stage. Thank you for making this possible!","fullyFundedDate":1788994649341,"projectUrl":"project/performance-ready-classroom/10603535/","projectTitle":"Performance Ready Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Carr","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9350272_orig.jpg?crop=427,428,x0,y55&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1698961832192","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9350272"},{"teacherId":10408544,"projectId":10234735,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping bring our interactive ELA notebooks to life! My students are using the composition notebooks, labels, and colored paper almost every day to create a resource that is completely their own. We have organized our notebooks into sections for vocabulary, grammar, reading notes, and novels, and students add new materials as we learn. The colored paper allows us to create graphic organizers and reference pages that make important skills easy to find and review throughout the year.\r\n\r\nWhen students first received their notebooks and saw all of the materials we would be using, they were genuinely excited to jump in and start using them. One of my favorite moments was watching them learn to organize their notebooks and immediately begin treating them as something they were proud of rather than just another school notebook. Even students who don't always get excited about taking notes have enjoyed the hands-on aspect of cutting, arranging, highlighting, and building their pages.\r\n\r\nRight now, students are continuing to add vocabulary, grammar concepts, reading strategies, and notes from the literature we are studying in class. As we move through the year, these notebooks will continue to grow alongside them and become an important reference tool for assignments, assessments, and writing. By the end of the year, each student will have an entire collection of the skills and learning they have accomplished in seventh-grade ELA.\r\n\r\nThank you for giving my students the materials to create something that will support their learning all year long!","fullyFundedDate":1779048444417,"projectUrl":"project/one-notebook-infinite-ideas-empowering/10234735/","projectTitle":"One Notebook, Infinite Ideas: Empowering Young Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Andersen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10408544"},{"teacherId":9360915,"projectId":10304814,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping me rebuild our classroom set of books. My students are excited to have enough copies for everyone to read and work with the book together. Having a copy in their hands means they can annotate, make connections, discuss their thinking, and become part of the story instead of listening to someone else read it.\r\n\r\nThis book gives my students the opportunity to explore identity, family, culture, growing up, and finding your own voice. I love watching students connect with charaxtoers and recognizing pieces of their own lives and experiences in their story. Your generosity has helped put this important book back into our classroom and will allow many more students to experience it together. Thank you for making that possible!","fullyFundedDate":1780335603932,"projectUrl":"project/rebuilding-our-book-set/10304814/","projectTitle":"Rebuilding Our Book Set","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mellos","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9360915"},{"teacherId":10404874,"projectId":10024087,"letterContent":"Thank you so much to everyone who invested in our classroom! I want to share the profound impact you have made on our self-contained autism science classroom by funding our classroom\r\n Middle school science labs can be sensory-heavy environments—filled with new smells, sudden sounds, and unique physical demands that are often overwhelming for my students.\r\n\r\nBy supporting this project, you did not just fund materials; you validated my students' needs. You provided a sense of comfort and predictability that allows them to focus their valuable energy not on managing environmental stressors, but entirely on engaging deeply with the complex science curriculum.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThank you for your incredible generosity and belief in","fullyFundedDate":1768782957334,"projectUrl":"project/science-you-can-touch-sensory-learning/10024087/","projectTitle":"\"Science You Can Touch: Sensory Learning for Science Superstars\"","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Panozzo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10404874"},{"teacherId":8192719,"projectId":9995206,"letterContent":"I want to extend my heartfelt thanks for your generosity in funding our classroom's science materials. Because of your support, science class has completely transformed for my students!\r\nBefore these resources arrived, learning scientific concepts often meant reading from a textbook or watching a demonstration. Thanks to your contribution, my students are now able to step into the shoes of real scientists. Having hands-on materials to explore, experiment with, and manipulate has completely changed their learning experience.","fullyFundedDate":1768144520572,"projectUrl":"project/science-in-action-learning-by-doing/9995206/","projectTitle":"Science in Action: Learning by Doing!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Barrett","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8192719"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_30846","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":1503,"numTeachers":62,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":12,"percentBlack":9,"percentWhite":36,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":24,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":2,"percentMultiracialImputed":13,"gradesServed":"6 - 8","studentTeacherRatio":"24.2:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":82.8,"schoolId":30846,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Del Webb Middle School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Del Webb Middle School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/nevada/clark-county-school-district/del-webb-middle-school/30846"}