{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"South Hills High School","outOfStateSupporters":37.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5096096,"projectId":9164218,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the \"Battleship\" games and the Lego SPIKE STEM set you graciously gave to help my students. The \"Battleship\" games have been instrumental in helping my Accounting students and my Foundations for Business Communications & Technologies students learn the mechanics of the columns and rows in spreadsheet software we use. Students truly struggle with the columns and rows in a spreadsheet software if they have never had any experience using them. In comes Battleship and they truly gain understanding of the columns and rows in our lessons. You are to thank for that. \r\n\r\nMy students were so excited to get to use the Lego SPIKE set. My Entrepreneur students created a prototype \"toy\" they had to pitch to the class. Then, the class voted as to who had the best toy and best pitch. Bringing the battery pack into the Legos so that they move and can program their toy to do a variety of activities. It was a lot of fun and they learned so much!\r\n\r\nThank you again, for your generosity, and supporting education! I am truly in awe of your contribution to my classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1746787162940,"projectUrl":"project/playing-games-to-think-critically/9164218/","projectTitle":"Playing Games to Think Critically!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Fisher","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5096096_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1517979993524","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/fblafisher"},{"teacherId":5096096,"projectId":9598514,"letterContent":"Your generosity to help my class support literacy by giving to my project \"Pencils & Paper to Support Literacy,\" has improved my students' reading and writing! Every day we do a reading activity where students are to read a brief article, write down words they do not know, write down key phrases that will help them develop a one sentence summary of the article. We call it STING. It has been eye opening to me as their teacher to discover words my students did not know. Because most of my students are bi-lingual, there are many English words I took for granted that everyone knew. So, because of the writing and reading every day, we are building vocabulary, getting better at sentence flow, and developing habits of reading for fun. Thank you, again, for giving to this important project!","fullyFundedDate":1755433177635,"projectUrl":"project/pencils-and-paper-to-support-literacy/9598514/","projectTitle":"Pencils and Paper to Support Literacy","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Fisher","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5096096_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1517979993524","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/fblafisher"},{"teacherId":7866155,"projectId":9099310,"letterContent":"I want to say thank you so much for all of your generosity. The books, especially the graphic novels, were a big hit for our campus-wide Read Across America Day. I allotted all 90 minutes of class time to simply read independently without any strings attached. Most of the books my students chose to spend their time with were the graphic novels. I noticed students pointing out pictures in the books to friends and talking about them afterwards, so thank you. \r\n\r\nI am sure these books will continue to reach students for many years to come.","fullyFundedDate":1739636189839,"projectUrl":"project/reaching-reluctant-readers/9099310/","projectTitle":"Reaching Reluctant Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Walters","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7866155"},{"teacherId":7866155,"projectId":9081436,"letterContent":"My students and I would like to say thank you so much for your generous donations that have resulted in adding a bunch of new titles to our classroom library. The graphic novels were a big hit on Read Across America Day and I have had several students select titles for independent reading. \r\n\r\nWe just finished reading Pride and Prejudice as a class, so I read aloud a portion of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to each class period to garner interest in yet another new book, and now I have several students who are interested in reading that title from the shelf! It seems like such great fun. \r\n\r\nThank you again. We appreciate all the books so much, and the stickers!","fullyFundedDate":1738091772763,"projectUrl":"project/fill-the-shelf/9081436/","projectTitle":"Fill the Shelf!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Walters","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7866155"},{"teacherId":8979356,"projectId":8332147,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supplying my classroom with a set of Jason Reynold's novel in verse, \"Long Way Down\", as well as several copies of the graphic novel version. This was my first year reading and teaching the novel, and it was well worth the investment. \r\n\r\nAfter hearing colleagues speak of the books impact and high engagement levels, I was very excited to bring this story into the classroom. Both were heavily utilized by students in my 5A high school English 2 classroom and allowed for some engaging and worthwhile discussions. The plot covers very heavy themes in a way that students of all English levels and backgrounds can approach, with a coherent narrative structure and accessible poetic techniques.\r\n\r\nI cannot wait to continue using these resources with future classes and students of all levels of English language and literary passion.","fullyFundedDate":1715135707198,"projectUrl":"project/mrs-s-takes-english-the-long-way-down/8332147/","projectTitle":"Mrs. S Takes English the LONG WAY DOWN","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Sinofsky","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8979356"},{"teacherId":2135744,"projectId":9075114,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity for my A&P classroom. My students have already enjoyed getting to use new aprons, gloves and safety goggles in A&P and will continue doing so for the rest of the year.\r\n\r\nMy students can't believe they actually got to have everything new for A&P. Getting students the proper resources for dissection and being allowed to be the first class getting to use the supplies is such an honor to them. Students have told me that they feel very appreciative that the A&P classes are special for having donors help us out.","fullyFundedDate":1737742020147,"projectUrl":"project/health-science-safety/9075114/","projectTitle":"Health Science Safety","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campbell","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2135744_orig.jpg?crop=272,272,x0,y24&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1731900237570","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2135744"},{"teacherId":9856259,"projectId":8985973,"letterContent":"My students were so excited to receieve this class set of The Hunger Games. My students don't come from places where they ever get their hands on brand new books and to have a set that is for them, in the classroom, is everything. When I told them that we were getting our own class set they thought it was really cool that I would reach out to try to get that for them. These kids are so grateful for anything and we cannot thank you enough for allowing this opportunity for them. \r\n\r\nWe are now on chapter 10 of the book and are flying through it. The kids have learned so much through these chapters and I would have never had the opportunity to give that to them without your help. These kinds of kindnesses are what life is all about and why I got into education. You are impacting students in huge ways without even stepping foot into the classroom; that is huge. Thank you again for your time, money, generosity, and kindness.","fullyFundedDate":1733512203467,"projectUrl":"project/the-hunger-games/8985973/","projectTitle":"The Hunger Games","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Muriset","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9856259"},{"teacherId":2135744,"projectId":8643992,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support to my A&P classroom. We had our first dissection and the students loved all the new goggles, gloves and science lab aprons. \r\n\r\nMy students' felt so special and excited about getting to use brand new science safety equipment. They were eager to put it on and start the dissecting process. \r\nAllowing students to feel like actual scientist gets them excited about science and they feel that they are a part of something and they are contributing members of science at our school.","fullyFundedDate":1732113101193,"projectUrl":"project/practicing-safety-in-ap/8643992/","projectTitle":"Practicing Safety in A&P","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campbell","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2135744_orig.jpg?crop=272,272,x0,y24&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1731900237570","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2135744"},{"teacherId":9198378,"projectId":8605352,"letterContent":"I was so thrilled to find boxes of sketchbooks delivered to my school!! My students helped to unbox and they were so happy to have materials to practice their drawings.\r\n\r\nIt has been so helpful to have the bound books that can be carried with them for regular practice. They enjoy getting their ideas down whenever the mood strikes! Keeping these ideas together has really helped with the ideation process and with confidence building. They can see the results of sustained work through practice and revision. \r\n\r\nI am deeply grateful to all who contributed to helping my students. We are at a time when funding has been reduced for the arts. Creativity and solution driven learning is crucial to the next generation workforce. The arts teach students to find their voice!! \r\nMy students are finding theirs with your help.","fullyFundedDate":1726677027427,"projectUrl":"project/sketchbooks-for-advanced-drawing-student/8605352/","projectTitle":"Sketchbooks for Advanced Drawing Students","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Stewart","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9198378_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1754261765016","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9198378"},{"teacherId":7948580,"projectId":8535693,"letterContent":"Thank you again for your generous donation of science sensors to my classroom. My students were so excited to gather data on our ecocolumns project and make real world connections to what we had been learning about. They created miniature terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and used the sensors to track the water and soil quality. Several of my students mentioned that the data they collected made our class feel more like an upper level science course and others mentioned that they felt like they better understood jobs in water quality and agriculture!\r\n\r\nSince the arrival of our vernier sensors, I have been able to take steps to creating a more dynamic and interactive learning space both inside and outside the classroom. They have allowed us to conduct experiments and inquiry activities that were previously beyond our reach.\r\n\r\nWhen you give students hands-on activities, it helps to activate curiosity (a HUGE motivator!). My students are more eager to participate in experiments and explore scientific concepts that are typically seen as \"boring\" when simply going through lectures & notes. Students understand concepts on a deeper level and leave a lasting impact and fond memories of science.\r\n\r\nWe were able to take \"field trips\" out to a nearby park and I was able to send out groups with different sensors to gather data and come back to share what they found with the class. It was so fun to hear how they had explored different areas and had so many observations! They have said that those were their favorite classes this year. \r\n\r\nMy hope is to include more and more activities in the future so that I can inspire my students to fall in love with science. And thanks to you that is now possible! Thank you once again for your generosity and commitment to education and to preparing the next generation of scientists.","fullyFundedDate":1728323182830,"projectUrl":"project/equip-my-environmental-scientists-to-get/8535693/","projectTitle":"Equip My Environmental Scientists to Get Dirty With Data","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mary Beth Ervin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7948580_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1628286536329","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7948580"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_14452","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":1876,"numTeachers":122,"percentFrplEligible":94,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":7,"percentWhite":3,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":87,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"9 - 12","studentTeacherRatio":"15.4:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":63.0,"schoolId":14452,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about South Hills High School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"South Hills High School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/texas/fort-worth-independent-school-district/south-hills-high-school/14452"}