{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Northeast Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":61.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9745800,"projectId":8997251,"letterContent":"The materials from this project had a positive impact on my students by helping reinforce the character traits we focused on throughout the school year. The coloring books, crayons, colored pencils, and snacks gave students something tangible to look forward to as they demonstrated qualities such as respect, responsibility, gratitude, kindness, and perseverance.\r\n\r\nThese incentives helped create positive conversations with students and gave me another way to recognize their growth. Students were excited to be acknowledged for making good choices, and the rewards helped them see that their effort and behavior mattered. This encouraged them to continue making positive choices both in and out of the classroom.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, the project helped students feel seen, valued, and celebrated. It supported a more positive school environment and gave students extra motivation to keep growing socially, emotionally, and academically.","fullyFundedDate":1734029801871,"projectUrl":"project/the-power-of-traits-inspiring-growth-an/8997251/","projectTitle":"The Power of Traits: Inspiring Growth and Excellence","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wood","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9745800"},{"teacherId":9745800,"projectId":8989031,"letterContent":"The Joyful Hearts project gave our students a meaningful opportunity to feel celebrated, included, and cared for during the holiday season. The snacks, candy, pencils, and small novelty items helped create a joyful experience for students who may not always have access to those extras at home. Students were excited to participate, and the materials helped make the celebration feel special and memorable.\r\n\r\nThe project also helped strengthen our sense of school community. Students were able to enjoy positive moments with their peers and staff, and the incentives gave us another way to recognize effort, participation, and positive behavior. The materials helped create an atmosphere where students felt seen, valued, and supported.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, this project reminded students that their school community cares about them. The celebration brought smiles, excitement, and connection, and it helped us create a positive experience students could carry with them beyond the event.","fullyFundedDate":1733715324879,"projectUrl":"project/joyful-hearts-a-holiday-celebration-for/8989031/","projectTitle":"Joyful Hearts: A Holiday Celebration for Every Student","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wood","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9745800"},{"teacherId":9745800,"projectId":8789609,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping me recognize and celebrate my students when they make positive choices! Throughout the school year, I used these incentives to \"catch\" students demonstrating good behavior, kindness, responsibility, effort, and other positive choices. The colorful pens, bracelets, keychains, pencils, erasers, and other small rewards immediately caught their attention. Students were excited to be recognized, and it was wonderful to see how something small could make them feel proud of themselves.\r\n\r\nThese materials gave me another way to reinforce the behaviors we want to see throughout our school. Rather than focusing only on students when something goes wrong, I was able to intentionally notice when they were doing something right. The incentives helped create positive moments and conversations with students while encouraging them to continue making good choices.\r\n\r\nYour generosity helped my students feel noticed, valued, and celebrated. Thank you for giving me the resources to recognize their growth and remind them that their positive choices matter.","fullyFundedDate":1729068000777,"projectUrl":"project/caught-you-using-good-behaviors/8789609/","projectTitle":"Caught You Using Good Behaviors","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wood","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9745800"},{"teacherId":2973437,"projectId":9744916,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom with these math manipulatives and games! These resources will give my students hands-on opportunities to practice addition, subtraction, and multiplication in fun and engaging ways. Your generosity will help make challenging math skills easier to understand while building confidence, problem-solving skills, and a love for learning. We are so grateful for your support! These materials will also encourage students to work together, learn from mistakes, and celebrate their mathematical successes.","fullyFundedDate":1758980308606,"projectUrl":"project/bringing-math-to-all/9744916/","projectTitle":"Bringing Math to All","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Danza","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2973437_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1512491195835","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-danza"},{"teacherId":2973437,"projectId":9845369,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our 3rd grade team and helping make this project possible! We are incredibly grateful for your generosity and for your willingness to invest in our students and their education. Your support provided something that may seem small, but will make a BIG difference in our classrooms each and every day.\r\n\r\nOur students use iPads regularly as an important part of their learning. We use technology to practice reading and math skills, complete assignments, take assessments, participate in educational activities, and access resources that help make learning more engaging and meaningful. Many of these activities require students to use headphones so that they can listen to directions, read along with digital texts, practice their skills, or work independently without distracting the students around them.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, our students' headphones did not connect directly to the iPads because the iPads require adapters. Without the proper adapters, students were unable to consistently use their headphones during these activities. This created an unnecessary barrier to learning and made it more difficult for students to work independently. We knew that having an adapter for every student would make a tremendous difference, but as a Title I school with limited resources, purchasing enough adapters for an entire grade level was not something we could easily do with our classroom budgets.\r\n\r\nBecause of your generosity, that problem has now been solved!\r\n\r\nThis project provided enough adapters for every student in our 3rd grade team. Instead of students having to share adapters, wait for one to become available, or work without headphones, every student can now have access to the equipment they need. This allows our classrooms to run more smoothly and gives our students the opportunity to use technology in a way that supports their individual learning needs.\r\n\r\nOne of the biggest benefits of this project is that the impact will extend far beyond this school year. These adapters will be used by our current 3rd grade students, but they will also be available for future 3rd grade students for years to come. Your donation is not simply helping one group of students; it is providing a resource that will continue to support children as they move through our school. We are so excited that your generosity will have a lasting impact on our grade level.\r\n\r\nOur students are growing up in a world where technology is an important part of everyday life, and we want to make sure they have meaningful opportunities to use it as a tool for learning. Having reliable access to technology and the accessories needed to use it allows our students to practice independence, responsibility, and digital skills while strengthening their academic skills.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, your donation sends a powerful message to our students: there are people who believe in them and want to see them succeed. Knowing that others are willing to invest in their education can help students understand that their learning matters and that they have a community of people cheering them on.\r\n\r\nThank you for seeing a need in our classrooms and helping us meet it. Thank you for supporting our teachers, our students, and our school. Your generosity has removed a small but very real obstacle from our students' learning experience and has given us a resource that we will be able to use again and again.\r\n\r\nWe are truly grateful for your kindness and support. From our entire 3rd grade team and all of our students, THANK YOU for helping us create better learning opportunities for our children. Your donation will be used, appreciated, and remembered for years to come!","fullyFundedDate":1761147214919,"projectUrl":"project/adapters-in-need/9845369/","projectTitle":"Adapters in Need","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Danza","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2973437_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1512491195835","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-danza"},{"teacherId":7072436,"projectId":10185901,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my classroom project and for investing in my students' success. Because of your generosity, each of my second-grade students will receive a Summer Bridge workbook to help them continue learning throughout the summer and prepare for the transition to third grade. Your kindness is making a meaningful difference in the lives of children who are eager to learn but may not always have access to educational resources at home. The summer months can be a difficult time for many students, as they often lose some of the academic skills they worked so hard to develop during the school year. These workbooks will provide engaging daily practice in reading, math, writing, and other important skills, helping students maintain their progress while building confidence before the new school year begins. Instead of starting third grade feeling like they have to \"catch up,\" they will have the opportunity to begin the year feeling more prepared, capable, and excited to learn. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for making this project a reality.","fullyFundedDate":1776978353879,"projectUrl":"project/third-grade-ready/10185901/","projectTitle":"Third Grade Ready!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7072436_orig.jpg?crop=1169,1169,x0,y7&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1579403591680","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7072436"},{"teacherId":10236079,"projectId":9889346,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations! This was a large group of items, and I am so grateful to have received them! The hygiene and stationary items helped support me and my students until the end of this school year, and will continue to support me and my future students into the next school year.\r\nOf course, my students were the most excited about the prizes! The prize options really motivated them to work hard on their assignments as well as meet expectations within the classroom and school! I cannot wait to continue to share these prizes as reward options next year!","fullyFundedDate":1773083717214,"projectUrl":"project/hygiene-stationery-and-prizes-oh-my/9889346/","projectTitle":"Hygiene, Stationery, and Prizes! Oh My!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Gaskins","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10236079_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757197294396","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10236079"},{"teacherId":10236079,"projectId":10039428,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations! My students were so excited to find out that we received novels to read when we finish our work! They were even more excited when I unpacked the novels! I read aloud the title of each series to them, and they couldn't wait to get their hands on them!\r\nMy students, especially my early finishers, were eager to pick a novel to read each day. This lasted until the end of the school year. I am so excited to be able to provide the opportunity to read novels to my next group of second graders and beyond!","fullyFundedDate":1776956089898,"projectUrl":"project/fun-novels-for-2nd-graders/10039428/","projectTitle":"Fun Novels for 2nd Graders!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Gaskins","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10236079_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757197294396","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10236079"},{"teacherId":5725340,"projectId":10135705,"letterContent":"On behalf of my kindergarten students and me, thank you for your generous donation of musical instruments to our classroom. Your kindness has provided our students with engaging, hands-on learning experiences that make education both exciting and meaningful.\r\n\r\nThe instruments have become an important part of our daily lessons. As students clap rhythms, tap beats, and play along with songs, they are strengthening their letter recognition, learning letter sounds, and developing essential phonemic awareness skills.\r\n\r\nI've watched students who were once hesitant become more confident as they sing alphabet songs, practice beginning sounds, and blend simple words while using the instruments. Learning through music keeps them engaged, improves their listening skills, and helps them retain what they are learning in a fun and memorable way.\r\n\r\nBecause of your generosity, our classroom is filled with joyful learning, laughter, and growing readers. Thank you for believing in our students and investing in their education. Your thoughtful gift is making a lasting impact, and we are truly grateful for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1774498323812,"projectUrl":"project/phonics-to-the-beat/10135705/","projectTitle":"Phonics to the Beat","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Holmes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5725340_orig.jpg?crop=418,418,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1626294952689","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5725340"},{"teacherId":8152830,"projectId":10139057,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation to our classroom. My students were so excited when they saw that we had new books to read. These books included some of the same characters they have grown to love, but also new characters that have helped them to expand their reading choices. They could not wait to read some of these books, and even read ahead of us during their own independent reading time so they could find out what happened in the story. Thank you for helping me to encourage the love of reading. We appreciate you!","fullyFundedDate":1778222471297,"projectUrl":"project/read-and-math-games-to-learn-together/10139057/","projectTitle":"Read and Math Games to Learn Together!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Copeland","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8152830_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1661125817093","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/copelandcafe"},{"teacherId":8152830,"projectId":10228362,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating these chapter books to my classroom. We read The Wild Robot as our last book at the end of the year. My students couldn't wait for me to read it every day so they could find out what happened to Roz after she was stranded on an island. They were excited to have a copy of the book to read along with me and look at the pictures. \r\n\r\nNext year, I look forward to having a new group of students enjoy these books, helping to grow their love of reading. Thank you so much for all you do to help make that difference!","fullyFundedDate":1777592389546,"projectUrl":"project/chapter-books-for-growing-readers/10228362/","projectTitle":"Chapter Books for Growing Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Copeland","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8152830_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1661125817093","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/copelandcafe"},{"teacherId":5725340,"projectId":9958285,"letterContent":"My students have enjoyed themselves exploring the different types of sounds each instrument makes. They have gained a love for music. We have had many sessions throughout the week leading CVC words by tapping out sounds. Students are able to decode words as well as blending. I was very impressed with their end of year assessments. Our data report showed that every child grew over 20 points and higher. Having access to these instruments has made a difference in their scores. 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