{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Rahway High School","outOfStateSupporters":72.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9667150,"letterContent":"This camera is awesome! Thank you so much for providing this tool for our Rahway performing arts students. We take the act of championing our arts programs and the importance of their role in our students' development very seriously. This new camera is a great addition to our music technology, piano lab in helping document the process of \"creating\". Each student develops a portfolio of their work, and this camera will be an awesome addition. We also have used it for student vlogs advertising and promoting our upcoming concerts and stage productions. We are so grateful for your support. 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Thank you so very much for refreshing our piano lab. We are so grateful for your support. They also sound great! Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1757535417096,"projectUrl":"project/stem-with-the-arts-is-steam-connecting/9667128/","projectTitle":"STEM with the Arts is STEAM: Connecting with Music Technology","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VanWyk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5266354_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757472907530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wearerahwayarts"},{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9667107,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support of our Rahway arts students and helping us refresh our piano, music technology lab. Our lab is filled with activity each day from our piano classes, music theory, music production and recording courses. Thank you for providing the equipment and tools to make our computer workstations happen. We just were able to upgrade a few of our mac workstations with Mac Minis. Those are great computers but short on usb connections and sd card slots. This new hardware will connect to each mac mini expanding our ability to connect to our midi lab. Thank you for making it happen. We are grateful for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1758390530106,"projectUrl":"project/stem-with-the-arts-is-steam-connecting/9667107/","projectTitle":"STEM With the Arts Is STEAM: Connecting With Music Technology","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VanWyk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5266354_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757472907530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wearerahwayarts"},{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9667042,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our Rahway Arts students and helping refresh our piano, music technology lab. We have needed a few new keyboards and mice for our mac workstations. We are so grateful for your support. Our piano lab is a busy hive of musical activity throughout the day. We teach music production and recording techniques, piano class, music theory. Many of the students are not part of our music ensemble program (band, strings, choir), so it provides a very needed opportunity for additional students to find a safe place to study and grow in music. 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Thank you for supporting our classroom.\r\nWe are in the thick of a busy fall. Students just finished marching band season. We've had two choir performances in the community. We just had a group of students perform at NJ All-State Jazz Choir, and next week our fall drama \"Radium Girls\" opens our show season. The kids are great, hard at work, and building our arts family at Rahway High School. \r\nThank you for being a huge part of our family. We so appreciate your support.","fullyFundedDate":1756345084341,"projectUrl":"project/bach-to-basic-performing-arts-supplies/9645138/","projectTitle":"Bach to Basic Performing Arts Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VanWyk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5266354_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757472907530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wearerahwayarts"},{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9524052,"letterContent":"We are so blessed by your donations to our music classroom. Our Rahway performing arts student and I are so grateful for your support. Thank you! These supplies and tools went to help us refresh our piano music technology lab this summer. We teach in this classroom all day long. Our students receive piano classes and audio production/recording classes in this space. It is a colorful, vibrant classroom filled with great musicmaking all day long. These classes largerly serve a different population of student than our performing ensembles, expanding our reach into our school community. We learn all different styles of music. We explore music and its effect upon history and culture. We learn how to play piano through developing music literacy (reading notation) but also by listening, and watching through an overhead camera on our teaching station. Students learn how to record and produce music using a Digital Audio Workstation, and advanced students graduate into using an industry standard, Logic. This summer, we refreshed all the wiring to each workstation. Thank you for providing the supplies and tools to make it happen. Please make sure to follow our journey @wearerahwayarts so you can see our growth though the year. Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1755718416317,"projectUrl":"project/connecting-with-music-technology/9524052/","projectTitle":"Connecting with Music Technology","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VanWyk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5266354_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757472907530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wearerahwayarts"},{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9524066,"letterContent":"We are so grateful for your support of our Rahway performing arts students. These supplies and tools went to help us refresh our music technology piano lab. We teach in this space all day long with our piano and music production classes. It is a vibrant classroom filled with energetic music-making each day. And it largely serves a different population of students outside of our performing ensembles. We teach music theory, reading notation. We teach recording and production techniques. Students learn how to record and produce tracks using a Digital Audio Workstation. Our advanced students use our Mac lab to utilize logic. Our piano students learn everything from Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Scott Joplin, to jazz and pop favorites. This month, we featured students performing Santana's \"Oye Como Va\" and just worked on Dr. Dre's \"Still Dre\". It is a powerful place for developing a love for music. This summer, we worked to rewire each station. Thank you so much for the tools to make it happen! We are blessed by your kindness. Check us out @wearerahwayarts so you can see \"Oye Como Va\" and see our journey continue. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1754492239643,"projectUrl":"project/connecting-with-music-technology/9524066/","projectTitle":"Connecting with Music Technology","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VanWyk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5266354_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757472907530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wearerahwayarts"},{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9476076,"letterContent":"We are so excited to have the use of flat.io in our piano classroom. Thank you so much for supporting our Rahway High School performing arts students and providing them this resource. \r\nSo far, we have used flat.io to tutor our students on note identification and note construction using both treble and bass clef in the key of C Major. We just expanded our note vocabulary as we are working in the key of G Major. This has been a huge asset to our students as we learn the major scales and beginning piano repertoire that uses these notes. \r\nWe also had two creative assignments where students composed a new melody over the accompaniment they had learned for an earlier song. They used their knowledge of those notes and skill in using flat.io to write a melody and then perform it. How cool! \r\nThank you so much for providing this tremendous resource to our students. We are so very grateful. Please make sure to follow us @wearerahwayarts as we continue our journey.","fullyFundedDate":1753880389924,"projectUrl":"project/i-can-write-music-technology-to-improve/9476076/","projectTitle":"I Can Write Music! Technology to Improve Our Music Literacy!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VanWyk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5266354_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757472907530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wearerahwayarts"},{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9441559,"letterContent":"Sightreading factory is a game changer! Thank you so much for your support to provide this resource for our Rahway performing arts students. Reading notation is such a vital part of music-making, and although we provide opportunities to learn in many different ways. We highly value teaching the literacy of music. At the end of the year, our choirs perform at the state festival. After performing their repertoire on the concert stage, we head to the sightreading room where we have 5 minutes to teach a brand new piece. The catch is . . . I can't just give them the answers, the students have to be independent learners and read the music. \r\n\r\nSightreading factory provides a wonderful game-like experience for our students to practice musical reading, and receive real-time feedback. What I love the most is that is customizable for each student, our seasoned seniors can choose their own difficulty different than our beginning freshman. \r\n\r\nIn our classroom, this month we are starting a belt system where our students level up as they progress in sightreading factory. We are going to have many sightreading BOSSES by the end of the year. Thank you for your support, please follow our journey @wearerahwayarts.","fullyFundedDate":1752586340025,"projectUrl":"project/i-can-read-music-technology-to-improve/9441559/","projectTitle":"I Can Read Music! 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Projects that once relied solely on written reports or presentations are now reimagined as podcast episodes, fostering deeper research and a more authentic understanding of content. Students now take more ownership of their learning as they plan, script, record, and edit their episodes, integrating technology and literacy in meaningful ways. The process also improves speaking and listening skills, which are often underdeveloped in the conventional classroom.\r\nBeyond academics, the studio has helped cultivate confidence and community. Students who might be shy in traditional settings have found their voice behind the mic. They take pride in producing content that can be shared with a broader audience—whether peers, parents, or the local community. The sense of purpose and professionalism introduced by the podcast studio has not only raised standards for student work but has also fostered a culture of innovation and expression across the school.","fullyFundedDate":1747534010493,"projectUrl":"project/podcast-and-tv-studio/9247110/","projectTitle":"Podcast and TV Studio","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Romano","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9937927"},{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9524024,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping our Rahway performing arts students. This project helped us refresh our piano/music technology lab. I spent a busy two days of rewiring our piano music tech lab. Murphy's law is a real thing, every class period something seems to fail, and doing little things to prevent breakdowns and (even better) plan for quick fixes make it easier throughout the year. At the end of last school year, we disasssembled everything. Now came the task to put it back together. Thank you for the power strips. Each piano has its own setup. We arranged the cabling out of student's way. And used industrial velcro to mount the power strips under each keyboard. \r\n\r\n\r\nWe are so thankful to our donorschoose supporters for providing the tools for our refresh. Please follow our journey at @wearerahwayarts","fullyFundedDate":1755649254051,"projectUrl":"project/connecting-with-music-technology/9524024/","projectTitle":"Connecting with Music Technology","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VanWyk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5266354_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757472907530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wearerahwayarts"},{"teacherId":5266354,"projectId":9500254,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for replenishing our band aids! We are so thankful for helping take care of our Rahway arts students. Our student leaders and I have been busy getting our program ready for the start of the year. The stickers will be used in the first week as students decorate their music folder for the start of the year. When I was a younger music teacher, I loved the uniform look of the solid black concert folder. But now as a wiser older man, letting the kids have a voice, ownership, decorate their folder is a little thing that pays huge dividends - plus I seem to have much less lost folders over the year. I included in these thank you pictures, a recent trip to NYC to see one of our alumni starring in \"Six the Musical\" on broadway. We are so proud of Najah and all of her successes.","fullyFundedDate":1753880389946,"projectUrl":"project/bach-to-basics-band-aids-for-our-music/9500254/","projectTitle":"Bach to Basics, Band-Aids for Our Music Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. VanWyk","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5266354_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757472907530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wearerahwayarts"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_82305","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":1246,"numTeachers":106,"percentFrplEligible":63,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":34,"percentWhite":11,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":47,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"11.8:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":27.2,"schoolId":82305,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Rahway High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Rahway High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/new-jersey/rahway-public-schools/rahway-high-school/82305"}