{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Gus Garcia Middle School","outOfStateSupporters":16.7,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":7515271,"projectId":9585102,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generous support, my classroom has been transformed into a more positive, engaging, and organized learning space! The motivational posters and stickers have created an uplifting environment where students feel inspired to learn and believe in themselves every day. The English Language and Literature posters have become useful visual tools that students reference during reading and writing lessons, helping them strengthen key academic skills.\r\n\r\nThe microfiber cleaning cloths have encouraged students to take ownership of our classroom by keeping our materials and work areas clean. Every item you helped fund contributes to a welcoming space that promotes motivation, pride, and learning.\r\n\r\nYour kindness has had a lasting impact on both my teaching and my students' daily experiences. Thank you for helping create a classroom that students truly love walking into!","fullyFundedDate":1761082092635,"projectUrl":"project/bringing-our-walls-to-life-inspiring-po/9585102/","projectTitle":"Bringing our Walls to Life: Inspiring Posters","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Dorantes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7515271_orig.png?crop=1024,1024,x0,y68&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753904770023","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7515271"},{"teacherId":7515271,"projectId":9518244,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generous donations, my students are learning with energy and creativity! The new markers, cardstock, and paper cutter have brought our lessons to life — students are using them to create colorful posters and visual projects that show their understanding of stories like \"Bad Boy,\" \"Thank You M'am,\" and \"Eleven.\" \r\n\r\nThe healthy snacks have also helped students stay focused and motivated during long lessons and testing days. Your support has made our classroom brighter, more engaging, and more joyful. We're now using these materials to build interactive one-pagers in our writing unit, combining art and literacy in powerful ways.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping my students feel seen, inspired, and ready to learn every day!","fullyFundedDate":1758295065271,"projectUrl":"project/interactive-journals-classroom-essenti/9518244/","projectTitle":"Interactive Journals & Classroom Essentials for Growing Minds","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Dorantes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7515271_orig.png?crop=1024,1024,x0,y68&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753904770023","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7515271"},{"teacherId":6021611,"projectId":9326319,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the donation. Not only did my students love making slime as a reward, but they were able to make slime to see an example of a chemical reaction. Then they added color, fragrance and glitter to make it their own slime. I opened the package when we received the donation in front of my class. They were so excited to receive donations to their own class. Then they got excited when it was ingredients to make their own slime. They kept asking me when and sharing their own experience when they first tried to make slime with other ingredients.\r\n\r\nThe next steps for this project it for them to bring in other ingredients to make slime, and to investigate which is the best way they liked to make their own slime. Maybe even find some ways that slime could solve real world problems.\r\n\r\nThank you for this opportunity.","fullyFundedDate":1746783026137,"projectUrl":"project/slime-rewards/9326319/","projectTitle":"Slime Rewards","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. R.Rivera","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6021611_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1719711752790","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/regina-rivera"},{"teacherId":6021611,"projectId":9346387,"letterContent":"These books are so awesome. They help to provide fun learning handouts for our students content related with science and biology. It was nice to just get one copy of the book and then order many original copies to then share with my students. Some of these books also included research related to careers and STEM. I opened the package and show the students what I had received for them to use. They couldn't believe that their own teacher would order things for them. They did share that some of the assignments they would like to do in my class is coloring. \r\n\r\nThey are able to read content related materials while they color. Students are reading to themselves, and with a partner. They follow along with the teacher and then we assess their comprehension by giving them sentence stems to determine the solution. In science, students are identifying the components of cell membrane, cell, biomolecules, and their functions. In these lesson, reading a problems and determining which component is involved in the situation they read about is the lesson type. \r\n\r\nMy gifted students and my SpEd students especially love these books to help them when they feel over stimulated and just wanting to do fun things in class that is content related","fullyFundedDate":1747428348352,"projectUrl":"project/scientific-books/9346387/","projectTitle":"Scientific Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. R.Rivera","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6021611_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1719711752790","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/regina-rivera"},{"teacherId":6021611,"projectId":9288890,"letterContent":"My students are so smart and they have so much potential in having a great future. I just wanted to have prizes to recognize their effort in having top scores, top behavior and reward points, and other recognition that will make them smile more. I opened all the donated packages in my classes. They were so excited to see that I was able to make this project happen and to be a part of it. To see them work so hard as an individual and in groups. See them push pass their limits in what they do in class is amazing. Next steps is to create more exciting activities and labs that will make learning more fun. Thank you for all your support.","fullyFundedDate":1746783010899,"projectUrl":"project/student-prizes/9288890/","projectTitle":"Student Prizes","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. R.Rivera","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6021611_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1719711752790","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/regina-rivera"},{"teacherId":6021611,"projectId":9073764,"letterContent":"These posters have made my students more curious and interested in the careers in sciences. It is still the beginning of the school year, so some of the posters related to their lessons and standards I will post on the walls in our classroom, in our labs and outside our classrooms. I am so used to just drawing their anchor charts, but having professionally printed posters let them know that they are worth having fancy stuff also. We started the school year by sharing some interests they had in the science field. May of them didn't know they would be interested in science related careers until they read some of the posters I put up about the careers related to sciences.\r\n\r\n I always show my students when we receive new donations. I let them know who donated them and the purpose for the donations. They were very interested to know that I took the time to reach out for these donations. They had smiles, asked some questions, and enjoyed the opportunity to be a part of this class. Students will be working on preparing for their district and state assessments coming up. We go through student discourse, using nearpods to bring in students practices. Having these helpful posters up on the wall is like another reference they can use during instructional time.","fullyFundedDate":1746783033082,"projectUrl":"project/more-visuals-for-young-minds/9073764/","projectTitle":"More Visuals for Young Minds","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. R.Rivera","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6021611_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1719711752790","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/regina-rivera"},{"teacherId":6021611,"projectId":9162184,"letterContent":"Students are so excited about our new reward system, competing in blooketz, Quizziz and other group work related classroom competitions. I have also created a reward system where they earn points for attendance, good behavior and top scores in DBAs (tests). My students are smart and motivated to do well in school, now they are smiling and are more enthusiastic about showing off their skills. \r\n\r\nI opened every package in each of my classes, explained to them the process of obtaining these donations. I also read some of my stories I posted on Donor Choose to them. I organized all of donations and always remind them that the rewards are for them only. \r\n\r\nOur next steps are to keep up with the point system for good behavior, good attendance and recognize honor rolls. Maybe even include birthdays and other holidays for my next projects on Donor Choose. My goal this year is to do more labs and activities. My students love coming to school and beating their personal best in the classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1746783003719,"projectUrl":"project/yummy-rewards-for-excellent-effort-to-re/9162184/","projectTitle":"Yummy Rewards for Excellent Effort to Review.","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. R.Rivera","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6021611_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1719711752790","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/regina-rivera"},{"teacherId":6021611,"projectId":9141780,"letterContent":"The laptop, keyboard, mouse, external hard drive, extension cord, HDMI adapter help me to do work at home in the summer, on the weekend, during holidays and afterwork. The laptop provided by my district is not able to sync with my personal Google account, where most of my teacher and student work is created. \r\n\r\n My students loved that during the 2nd week of school, they were able to finally do a science lab that was fun. I was able to modify this lab I used last year to accommodate the shorter class schedule. Upload more pictures and a more clarifying presentation to complete the lab report. Having this laptop at home, I don't have to take home my work laptop and risk being damaged during transport to and from work. \r\n \r\n I am also able to create a class website to help students stay on task, catch up or ask for help. Being more organized with my lessons, uploading them online and communicating via email is so much more convenient with the donations. All of my students are loving the labs and that their teacher is prepared everyday with their lessons. They are also excited that people out there actually care about donating to their classroom. They are happy that they also have a place to get information about their class that I am able to create for them.","fullyFundedDate":1746783046046,"projectUrl":"project/creating-lessons-websites-presentation/9141780/","projectTitle":"Creating Lessons, Websites, Presentations and Student Notes in Summer","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. R.Rivera","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6021611_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1719711752790","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/regina-rivera"},{"teacherId":6021611,"projectId":8920670,"letterContent":"My clear storage containers work great. My students decided to use 8 of the storage containers to organize student notebooks and folders for each of my science and biology periods. They are able to find their period faster so that theyay be able to get their own notebook and sit at their assigned seat. \r\n\r\nStudent recognized my attempt to have a more organized classroom with these see through containers. They noticed my effort in making their classroom more neat and organized. They see how I use it in the class. The rest of the containers are being used to store handouts, answer keys, lesson plan summary papers, and activity supplies for each lesson. This encourages me to go into our science storage to update other supplies and materials resources by the standards we use. \r\n\r\nWe hope that these resources will help to improve student learning and enthusiasm here. We hope to change the attitude students have by giving them more resources to use to learn science. Now we have the opportunity to make improvements from your gracious donation. Thank you for caring about us teachers and our students.","fullyFundedDate":1734369949467,"projectUrl":"project/clear-lesson-and-supply-organizers/8920670/","projectTitle":"Clear Lesson and Supply Organizers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. R.Rivera","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6021611_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1719711752790","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/regina-rivera"},{"teacherId":9070019,"projectId":8701750,"letterContent":"I would like to express my deepest gratitude for your generous contribution to my classroom. Your donation is very important to me as a teacher and to my students. As a middle school reading teacher, it is crucial that I hit all types of learners, and your contributions has helped me keep not only my visual learners engaged but all of them. \r\n\r\nWith your contribution my students have created posters of figurative language analysis of song lyrics which they loved because they used all the markers to give me a mental image of their explanation. My students have also contributed from the incentives you all have donated. They are given prizes for over-the-top participation in class and Saturday/tutoring sessions, so they are super engaged and ready to earn these prizes. \r\n\r\nIt brings me joy to witness firsthand the commitment others have in education. You all don't need to donate but you all do this with such unselfishness and that is deeply admired. I thank you again for helping teachers like me because it truly makes a difference to our classroom and our students.","fullyFundedDate":1726847009419,"projectUrl":"project/coloring-our-reading/8701750/","projectTitle":"Coloring our Reading","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Rabago","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9070019_orig.jpg?crop=1080,1080,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1686261783052","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9070019"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_10313","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":451,"numTeachers":43,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":1,"percentWhite":0,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":97,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"6 - 8","studentTeacherRatio":"10.5:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":83.3,"schoolId":10313,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Gus Garcia Middle School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Gus Garcia Middle School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/texas/edgewood-ind-school-district-san-antonio/gus-garcia-middle-school/10313"}