{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Frank Fowler Dow School 52","outOfStateSupporters":23.5,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":10190244,"letterContent":"These new scores will allow me to study marching band writing, musical technique and different skill levels of music hopefully resulting in an increase in my skills as an educator and music arranger myself. The ultimate goal of this proejct is to possibly write the music for the next marching band show myself using arranging tips from these pieces and classical music. When my marching band students saw me starting to study these scores, they looked on with me for a minute, then promptly said \"I should probably go look at my music\". After laughing, I set down the score and joined them to play our current show for this year.","fullyFundedDate":1786541693647,"projectUrl":"project/marching-band-score-study-development/10190244/","projectTitle":"Marching Band Score Study Development","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"},{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":10473885,"letterContent":"With these new instruments, mallets and equipment - we have been able to provide major upgrades to our percussion section of our district wide marching band! Not only is it making it easier for students to perform and making us sound better, but it also bring a massive morale boost to students and staff alike. When students see new equipment, it makes them feel like more people than just parents and staff care about thier success, while also making them feel like they are becoming a professional marching band slowly!","fullyFundedDate":1787320705122,"projectUrl":"project/marching-band-percussion-equipment/10473885/","projectTitle":"Marching Band Percussion Equipment","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"},{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":10474907,"letterContent":"Our school district wide Marching band has had minimal electronics in our front ensemble (pianos, marimba, sound effects, etc.) since its creation a few years ago. Now with these upgrades, not only can we effeciently run sound and power to our instruments that need it, but now we can also mic up softer instruments like marimbas and vibraphones using the new provided soundboard. This will provide a new type of sound experience for the students and upgrade their sound quality! Additionally, anytime we get new stuff morale in the section and whole group raises due to the concept that people in the ensemble are fighting to get them the best of the best equipment.","fullyFundedDate":1787320721620,"projectUrl":"project/marching-band-sound-tech/10474907/","projectTitle":"Marching Band Sound Tech","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"},{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":10472787,"letterContent":"These books are methods books for intermediate students for each instrument with great guides for progression of skills. From how to produce a better tone on a trumpet to how fingerings work for lower to higher notes on a clarinet, these books instruct students on the tiny details of the instruments they play on. I will be studying them for the next few months as I incorporate them into my teaching for my older students. I will now be able to practice exactly what they practice, review what they learn and prepare myself for lessons more thanks to these method books.","fullyFundedDate":1787320546361,"projectUrl":"project/band-method-book-development/10472787/","projectTitle":"Band Method Book Development","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"},{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":10474261,"letterContent":"After the snacks were delivered to our school and transfered to the marching band practice, the immediate light up on the faces of the students were noticable. Students were looking at the mountain of snacks and asking things like \"Where did this come from?\", \"Mr. Rowlinson did you steal all this food?\", and \"Is that for us?!?\". All students and even staff were suprised, excited and hungry the moment they saw the mountain of food. These snacks will help feed our Marching Band for the whole season and into championships this year!","fullyFundedDate":1787320734764,"projectUrl":"project/snacks-for-marching-band-students/10474261/","projectTitle":"Snacks for Marching Band Students","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"},{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":10187669,"letterContent":"With these new Jazz Scores - I have been able to expand my knowledge of music theory, score study and practice. Not only is it making me better as a teacher, but by playing the parts on all of the instruments within the pieces - I am also becoming a better musical performer (which feeds back into my abilities as an educator). As the school year is starting, I am allowing returning advanced students to look at the scores and parts to these pieces when they see me studying the music so they can see what professional level music looks like (most are amazed or terrified, but they also realize that it is just notes on a page). Overall, it gives students something to aspire to and it gives me something to hone my craft with.","fullyFundedDate":1778959037043,"projectUrl":"project/musical-development-through-advanced-jaz/10187669/","projectTitle":"Musical Development Through Advanced Jazz Scores","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"},{"teacherId":565937,"projectId":10195246,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my classes. The students are LOVING the new writing games and activities. The attached pictures are an example of a product purchased for kindergarten. In this activity, the students practice reading the consonant cluster and then sound out and write the rest of the word. They love practicing their clusters and dictation in a new and exciting format. \r\n\r\nAnother writing activity that was purchased is a series of word ladders. Students write one word given at the bottom of the ladder and then are given a direction to change the given word to a new word and write it on the next rung up the ladder. For example, the word might be \"cap\" and the students must add a letter to the next word to create the word \"cape.\"\r\n\r\nThank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1777489017607,"projectUrl":"project/writing-helps-us-as-readers-too/10195246/","projectTitle":"Writing Helps Us As Readers, Too!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Nordmark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp565937_orig.jpg?crop=4813,4813,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1771869226665","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/565937"},{"teacherId":565937,"projectId":10018875,"letterContent":"My students are already in heaven. The first resource I purchased was a Go Fish game for my first-grade students to practice reading words with r-controlled vowels. They sat in a circle on the rug, so excited to learn a new game. None of them had ever played a card game, so we started simple, three cards per student. They quickly mastered the rules, and it was one student after another asking if their neighbor had the card \"car\" or if the student across from them had the card \"farm.\" \r\n\r\nThe next day, they entered, almost demanding to play r-controlled vowel Go Fish again! I love being able to provide these skill-based activities that truly engage them in repeated practice. Thank you for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1775556363637,"projectUrl":"project/new-phonics-games/10018875/","projectTitle":"New Phonics Games","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Nordmark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp565937_orig.jpg?crop=4813,4813,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1771869226665","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/565937"},{"teacherId":565937,"projectId":9971617,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation. My students have been absolutely loving the new games and worksheets provided, thanks to your Teachers Pay Teachers gift card donation. \r\n\r\nI carefully vet each resource to ensure the materials are directly aligned to our curriculum (CKLA) and the skill the students are currently working on. \r\n\r\nIn the picture, you can see my first-grade students using a game purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers. In this game, students take all of the Tricky Words from the CKLA first-grade unit 4 and match them to their partner's words. They take turns asking each other to look for a particular word and help each other read the words as they go.\r\n\r\nThank you again for your donations!","fullyFundedDate":1770232113621,"projectUrl":"project/repeated-practice-for-reading-fluency/9971617/","projectTitle":"Repeated Practice for Reading Fluency!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Nordmark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp565937_orig.jpg?crop=4813,4813,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1771869226665","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/565937"},{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":9857244,"letterContent":"Our percussionists are very excited about our newest additions to the band, our new bell kits! Now that we own more, students are able to start taking them all home at once - rather than passing them between weeks. Students during their first lesson were so happy to take home the instruments (until they realized how heavy they were) and were even happier to hear that they could keep them at home until the end of the year (so they didn't have to carry them to and from school everyday). Some students have amazing ears and are already playing songs they enjoy listening to - like Harry Potter music!","fullyFundedDate":1771610265870,"projectUrl":"project/bell-kits-for-instrumental-music-lessons/9857244/","projectTitle":"Bell Kits for Instrumental Music Lessons!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"},{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":9876078,"letterContent":"These new scores will allow me to continue to get better at my craft of music education by studying the scores provided and even practice to the advanced music to make me better understand how to teach these instruments. Through score study, I will continue to become better at musical score analysis, practice my conducting skills and give me a goal to work towards for my own performance skills on secondary instruments. On top of being great literature for me to study, some students will study these scores and parts with me to become a more well rounded scholar as they learn how to study music intently and with purpose.","fullyFundedDate":1771610265985,"projectUrl":"project/musical-score-study-development/9876078/","projectTitle":"Musical Score Study Development","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"},{"teacherId":9860536,"projectId":10077781,"letterContent":"These resources allow me to explore a new style and range of composing, musical analysis and conducting - film music! It is very exciting for me to study these scores as some of this music is what I grew up watching and listening to. I had students wanting to play some of this music the day I got it while I was working on it. Although it is a little advanced for most of them, they are eager to get better to eventually play music like this. This project has given me an opportunity to study the fine details of film techniques of composing and playing!","fullyFundedDate":1771610266037,"projectUrl":"project/film-music-score-study-development/10077781/","projectTitle":"Film Music Score Study Development","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rowlinson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9860536_orig.jpg?crop=3672,3672,x0,y452&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746791832636","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9860536"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_21502","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":328,"numTeachers":25,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":48,"percentWhite":14,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":29,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":7,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 6","studentTeacherRatio":"13.1:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_MIDSIZE"},"inStateSupporters":76.5,"schoolId":21502,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Frank Fowler Dow School 52 on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Frank Fowler Dow School 52","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/new-york/rochester-city-school-district/frank-fowler-dow-school-52/21502"}