{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"High School of the Future","outOfStateSupporters":40.4,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9753320,"projectId":9569096,"letterContent":"My students and I are so my grateful for your generous donations- much of which went towards valuable books that contributed greatly to our projects and exam studies. I'm happy to share with you that on our second year of taking the AP African American Studies course and exams, the number of passing students more than doubled! I believe that an important factor to our success was the ways in which our classroom supported learning. \r\n\r\nWith your generous donations, I was able to create a richer learning environment by supplementing our, previously limited, class collection of pre colonial African literature. Our class space was also made significantly more organized and comfortable with a bookshelf and lamp lighting, paper organizers and paper supplies. Ultimately, you helped me build a classroom students felt safe and comfortable to work and be themselves in and I could never thank you enough!","fullyFundedDate":1764739306527,"projectUrl":"project/working-with-and-creating-new-knowledge/9569096/","projectTitle":"Working With and Creating New Knowledge: Advanced African American Studies","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mandzak-Heer","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9753320_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755658794346","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9753320"},{"teacherId":10228317,"projectId":10198892,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible support and for believing in our classroom. Your contribution has truly transformed our Entrepreneurship class from a room where we read about business into a vibrant, hands-on startup incubator.\r\n\r\nI wish you could have been there on the day our materials arrived. When my high school students walked in and saw the brand-new heat press, the stack of blank t-shirts, and the design materials waiting for them, their jaws dropped. There were cheers, gasps, and an immediate buzz of excitement. For many of them, it was the first time they realized that someone outside of our school cared enough about their education to invest in their ideas. Their immediate reaction was, \"Wait, we actually get to make these today?\"\r\n\r\nThe resources you provided have brought our curriculum to life in a way textbooks simply cannot. Right now, students are grouped into \"startup teams,\" each developing their own unique apparel brand. Just last week, we had a breakthrough moment: one of our teams finalized their logo design, cut the vinyl, and used the heat press for the very first time. When they peeled back the transfer paper to reveal a flawless, professional-looking t-shirt of their own creation, the entire class erupted in applause. Seeing the pride on their faces as they held a tangible product that they built from scratch was an unforgettable teaching moment.\r\n\r\nThanks to your peek into our classroom, our students are now looking toward the future. The next step for our young entrepreneurs is to officially launch their small businesses. We are currently working on a lesson covering marketing and profit margins. In the coming weeks, the students will be setting up a pop-up shop in the school cafeteria during lunch hours to sell their custom t-shirts to their peers. They will be responsible for tracking their inventory, calculating their revenue, and figuring out how to reinvest their profits to keep their businesses growing.\r\n\r\nYou have given these students much more than just t-shirt supplies; you have given them real-world skills, confidence, and the empowering realization that they have what it takes to be successful business owners.","fullyFundedDate":1776864332832,"projectUrl":"project/the-micro-enterprise-merch-lab/10198892/","projectTitle":"\"The Micro-Enterprise Merch Lab\"","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. David Elser","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10228317_orig.jpg?crop=480,480,x0,y80&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1756339717116","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10228317"},{"teacherId":10337750,"projectId":9868264,"letterContent":"The moment I handed out those 90 composition notebooks and color-coded envelope folders, something shifted in my classroom. Students who usually slouch in their seats sat up straighter. They flipped through the notebooks, ran their fingers along the folder edges, and actually smiled. One student even asked me, \"I can keep this?\" The answer was yes, and it mattered more than I realized.\r\n\r\nThanks to 15 generous donors who invested in this project, my classroom became a space where organization isn't just a rule, it's a practice that students want to follow.\r\n\r\nThe composition notebooks and envelope folders are the backbone of everything we do now. Every student has their own notebook for daily do-nows, vocabulary building, and reflective writing. The 8-color envelope folders sit in bins in the back organized by class, with students having the creative freedom to choose the colors of their folders. When I say \"go back to your notes from last week,\" or \"I am missing this worksheet\" students know exactly where to go look. No more shuffling through stacks. No more \"I lost it.\" Their materials are contained, visible, and theirs.\r\n\r\nBut what's truly transformed engagement are the coloring supplies. \r\n\r\nI didn't expect it, but the moment I brought out the colored pencils, Crayola crayons, highlighters, and markers, my classroom became electric. These aren't just nice-to-haves, they've become essential learning tools.\r\n\r\nIn my world history classes, students are now creating color coded timelines, maps, and notes with colored pencils and markers, mapping trade routes in brilliant blues and golds, sketching the architecture of different civilizations. A student who typically scores C's came up to me with a colored-pencil drawing of an Asian house, showing the progression of architectural styles across centuries. \"I actually get it now,\" she said, pointing to how she'd used different colors to show different time periods. That visual application filled in the gaps from the lesson.\r\n\r\nIn my survey of law classes, students are using highlighters and colored pencils to annotate case studies and primary source documents. They color-code key terms and opposing arguments and create visual hierarchies that help them see connections. One student used the Crayola crayons to illustrate a comparative analysis of civil rights cases, each case in a different skin tone, making a powerful statement about whose rights were being discussed. The work was more thoughtful, more engaged, more theirs.\r\n\r\nLast week, a student who barely spoke in class came to me with her organized folder. Inside: perfectly filed materials and color-coded notes. Margin notes in highlighter. Vocabulary words defined in her composition notebook, with colored pencil illustrations next to each term. \"I've never done this before,\" she said, almost in disbelief. \"I like how organized this is. Can we always do this?\"\r\n\r\nThat question broke my heart. She was asking permission to be organized, to care about her work, to have a system that works for her.\r\n\r\nWe're halfway through Q3 with lots of momentum. Students are now creating their own culminating creative projects where they choose how to best demonstrate their understanding of the unit. They're also writing reflective essays about their learning using specific notes they've collected and organized.\r\n\r\nThe colored pencils and markers aren't decorations. They're proof that their learning is valued enough to be beautiful.They're tools that help visual learners finally see the patterns other students hear in a lecture. They're invitations to engage differently, than they've been allowed to before.\r\n\r\nMy 120 students across 6 classes now come to school knowing they have real materials, not hand-me-downs or leftovers, but actual supplies chosen specifically for their learning. They have systems that work. They have colors that help them think. They have organization that shows them they matter.\r\n\r\nWith your $671 investment, you gave my students permission to care about their work. You gave them the tools for visible, organized, colorful learning. You sent the message that these students in Philadelphia, students from often under-resourced schools, students with so much already stacked against them, deserve classrooms as beautiful and organized as any private school.\r\n\r\nMy students are learning that organization isn't punishment. It's power.","fullyFundedDate":1764673383110,"projectUrl":"project/help-the-firebirds-take-flight/9868264/","projectTitle":"Help the Firebirds Take Flight!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Traore","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mstsclassroom"},{"teacherId":9701272,"projectId":9637638,"letterContent":"I would like to send a sincere thank you to you all for choosing to sponsor my class. Each item benefited my students in a huge way. Specifically the 2 tier metal cart help us reinforce the importance of hygiene and caring for each other. It made for a beautiful display in our classroom, front and center. The students really enjoy being independently responsible for caring for themselves. Secondly, the highlight of the project was receiving the sharpie art markers in order to make beautiful art work to display boldly around the classroom. As a new school year project, I guide my students on creating a theme for our class, this year my students decided to do a graffiti wall. The sharpie markers made their artwork colorful and vibrant. This increase student engagement and social skills building by 80%, it was a big team building activity. The laminating pouches are always a useful tool to help make resources in our classroom durable, for instance making division/multiplication charts to remind our students of their ability to recall math skills in everyday activities. Because of your generosity, my classroom has a bit more resources to help my students grow.","fullyFundedDate":1756174538593,"projectUrl":"project/help-my-autistic-support-students-shine/9637638/","projectTitle":"Help My Autistic Support Students Shine!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Patterson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9701272_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755789844621","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9701272"},{"teacherId":9226174,"projectId":9631922,"letterContent":"Just want to start off by saying thank you again for donating to my classroom. These supplies have really set us off on a great year. \r\nThe laminator is my biggest win! I use this with their schedules, hall passes, worksheets, and classwork! We also use our whiteboard calendar everyday. The students change the date and the weather on it during morning meeting. Each student's chair has a flex band around the legs for fidgeting and the students actively use the toys as well! \r\nThese donations have created such a comfortable environment for my freshman. Thank you for everything!","fullyFundedDate":1756262076980,"projectUrl":"project/back-to-school-supplies/9631922/","projectTitle":"Back to School Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cabry","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9226174_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1764814581165","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9226174"},{"teacherId":8497914,"projectId":9668088,"letterContent":"About 3 months ago, my project \"Stocking Up on Classroom Essentials\" was fully funded here on Donors Choose thanks to your generous support. I want to express just how grateful I am for your contributions to this project!\r\n\r\nThanks to this project, each of my students has a notebook and a folder to use for my class. They also have erasers and pencils they can use to complete their work, paper for writing and drawing, and hand sanitizer to keep clean. These essential basics have made learning possible for every learner. The class set of whiteboards and markers allows me to easily check for knowledge and to provide students with a fun way to engage with learning. The rug, seat cushions, and fidget toys have helped make our room more comfortable and calm. I see the positive impacts of your generosity play out in my classroom each day. \r\n\r\nThank you once again for your donations to this project. Thanks to your support, you have helped me best support my students during my first 3 months of teaching.","fullyFundedDate":1756705129111,"projectUrl":"project/stocking-up-on-classroom-essentials/9668088/","projectTitle":"Stocking Up on Classroom Essentials","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McQuoid","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8497914_orig.jpg?crop=2540,2540,x1115,y483&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1756346942654","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8497914"},{"teacherId":8497914,"projectId":9655067,"letterContent":"About 3 months ago, my project \"Curating a Colorful and Comfortable Classroom!\" was fully funded here on Donors Choose thanks to your generous support. I want to express just how grateful I am for your contributions to this project!\r\n\r\nWith the art supplies, we've been able to make an assortment of projects, such as visual representations of world religions in World History class and poetic device anchor charts in English class. The classroom is not only nice and welcoming thanks to the fake plants and LED light, but the magnetic calendar kit and dry erase markers help me keep us organized and on track. Overall, these supplies have successfully brought color and comfort into the classroom and that means the world to me!\r\n\r\nThank you once again for your donations to this project. 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