{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Salt Lake Center for Science Education","outOfStateSupporters":34.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":8279596,"projectId":8913425,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation of mindfulness supplies, coloring books, and games. My students have really enjoyed having these resources available. We use them as a way for students to take a short break from their classwork when they're feeling overwhelmed or need a moment to reset. It's been especially helpful during long assignments or tough days—students will spend a few minutes coloring or playing a short board game, and then come back to their work more focused and ready to go.\r\n\r\nWhen the materials first arrived, my students were really excited. They were curious about all the new items and quickly started trying them out. It didn't take long for certain supplies—like the coloring books and board games—to become class favorites. Right now, we're continuing to work on building focus and self-awareness through small daily habits like taking meaningful breaks, managing time, and communicating clearly. These supplies have added a simple but really effective way to support those skills in our daily routine.","fullyFundedDate":1730571450419,"projectUrl":"project/mindfulness-for-juniors-and-seniors/8913425/","projectTitle":"Mindfulness for Juniors and Seniors","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Dent","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8279596_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1642616850244","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-dent"},{"teacherId":9817913,"projectId":8908992,"letterContent":"The puzzle board, fidgets and coloring supplies have become a key tool for students to take mental health and self-care breaks in directed studies classes. My students all have challenges and barriers to overcome in the school setting, whether it's a reading disability, behavioral challenges or executive functioning differences. Directed Studies class is a place where I support them in completing work, reteach concepts, and teach organizational and social emotional skills. I encourage students to self-regulate their motivation and stress using activities like puzzles, coloring, and the calming corner either before initiating or to reward their hard work. As a veteran educator returning to the classroom after a decade plus in administration, state and college level education positions, it is invaluable to have donors help me rebuild my classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1730842003299,"projectUrl":"project/high-school-resource-sped-classroom-ca/8908992/","projectTitle":"High School Resource (SPED) Classroom Calming and Refocusing Area","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Evans","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9817913"},{"teacherId":7266652,"projectId":8852628,"letterContent":"Thank you so much! The impact of you donating to my calm room supplies has been huge! My students are able to utilize crafts and calming materials in our calm room to be able to de-stress and regulate so that they can head back to class and learn. \r\nThey were so excited to see the blocks that they can build things with and more comfortable and flexible seating for whatever needs they had.\r\nWe also were able to have our school therapists utilize the fidgets and other things to use in sessions with their students.\r\nBeing able to have these materials is so important in our school and so fundamental in the mental health of our students.","fullyFundedDate":1730132535750,"projectUrl":"project/calm-room-supplies/8852628/","projectTitle":"Calm Room Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Borders","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7266652_orig.jpg?crop=720,720,x0,y43&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1591732527001","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/counselorsammi"},{"teacherId":7322747,"projectId":8906482,"letterContent":"Four days are an excellent way for students to interact without an electronic device. Our school has developed an excellent policy so that students never use personal electronics at school. Some students need to relearn how to interact without device devices. Board games give students a structure to interact in a fun low stakes way.\r\n\r\nWhenever I have free time in my class, even just for five minutes students love to go to the back corner of my classroom and pick out a game to play. I love how the students are self directed and find the game that interests them most. Many students have learned new games and have taught them to other students.\r\n\r\nI am really proud of our school for being free of electronic personal devices. And thanks to this money from donors. Choose our students now have great opportunities to play and interact in a healthy way. Thank you so much for giving my students these opportunities. I believe that our students are better off because of it. Overall, I see my students having better mental health this year been in the past five years. Again thank you so much for this donation.","fullyFundedDate":1730411499506,"projectUrl":"project/games-for-better-mental-health/8906482/","projectTitle":"Games for Better Mental Health","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mcleod","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7322747"},{"teacherId":1110009,"projectId":8919768,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting the mental health of our students. Our board game advisory period has been a huge hit! We have 40 or more students every week playing games together, having fun and building relationships across grade level and friend groups. Students who finish a game are welcomed into games in progress when possible and students are expanding their circles of friends.\r\n\r\nWe are so grateful that you took this opportunity to help us in this unconventional space and made a difference in the learning and social experience of our students.\r\n\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1730759625758,"projectUrl":"project/building-community-playing-great-games/8919768/","projectTitle":"Building Community Playing Great Games","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Crim","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/diane-crim"},{"teacherId":1571368,"projectId":8917339,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for helping my 10th and 11th grade students. They are sweet, curious, and from a huge variety of backgrounds. They also spend too much time on their devices and not enough connecting with each other in face to face ways.\r\n\r\nWe are using these materials for building some opportunities for them to connect with each other outside of class. The Stiff book is for a book group related to death and offering opportunities to both laugh and cry together. We met in January and had a really nice time. The puzzles, games and cookies are for connecting and luring kids in after school.\r\n\r\nThanks for funding these materials that will build connection and improve mental health!","fullyFundedDate":1730651247982,"projectUrl":"project/books-puzzles-games-and-snacks-to-buil/8917339/","projectTitle":"Books, Puzzles, Games and Snacks to Build Human Connections","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wickelson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1571368_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1475552253200","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1571368"},{"teacherId":9820326,"projectId":8919785,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting the mental health of our students. Our board game advisory period has been a huge hit! We have 40 or more students every week playing games together, having fun and building relationships across grade level and friend groups. Students who finish a game are welcomed into games in progress when possible and students are expanding their circles of friends.\r\n\r\nWe are so grateful that you took this opportunity to help us in this unconventional space and made a difference in the learning and social experience of our students.\r\n\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1730762197359,"projectUrl":"project/better-mental-health-through-community-b/8919785/","projectTitle":"Better Mental Health Through Community Building","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Mower","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9820326"},{"teacherId":9726300,"projectId":8905705,"letterContent":"Students were so excited about the new calm space in the corner of my room! Many of them are there during lunch and see it as a safe space to hang out with friends outside of class. In addition, I have had students use it in class for independent work time, and on a couple occasions have had students there to take a moment to chill and compose themselves before rejoining the class. \r\nStudents have also made good use of the quiet fidget toys. As a teacher, it is so nice to be able to offer that tool to students who otherwise engage in louder or more distracting alternatives. Students also are getting practice in keeping our resources nice as they are self directed in maintaining the fidget basket. \r\nSomething else I love about the calm corner is the posters. While we will do breathing exercises occasionally in class, I also see students looking at posters of other techniques. Exposure to that idea that their mental health matters and the tools to help regulate has helped my students. \r\nThis has been part of a greater effort in my classroom this year to integrate more SEL lessons for the 9th grade students. They've learned about regulating emotion, lessons in empathy, and finding flow for themselves to create a better work environment, to name a few. This space has helped show, with action, that school climate matters.","fullyFundedDate":1730153259476,"projectUrl":"project/enhancing-student-well-being-through-cal/8905705/","projectTitle":"Enhancing Student Well Being Through Calming Spaces","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Eiting","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9726300_orig.jpg?crop=2237,2237,x302,y574&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725357452909","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9726300"},{"teacherId":1560659,"projectId":8915031,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of puzzles and a puzzle board for my classroom. All of my students, and even those that I don't teach, have been solving the puzzles every day since the packages arrived. What a wonderful addition to the classroom!\r\n\r\nWhen the puzzles first arrived, students were so excited to see fresh, new, beautiful puzzles. They were extremely excited about a board designated for puzzling, stating that now they wouldn't have to worry about their work falling apart over time. \r\n\r\nOne of the most rewarding aspects of the puzzles is the sense of community they contribute to. Whenever a student has a free moment during class or between classes, they come into the room to contribute to solving the classroom puzzle. On any given day, there could be 20 different students working on it and adding to others' contribution. I love how all of their individual work builds to collective success!","fullyFundedDate":1730587384997,"projectUrl":"project/puzzles-for-mental-health/8915031/","projectTitle":"Puzzles For Mental Health","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Moretz","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1560659_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1472354368347","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1560659"},{"teacherId":501258,"projectId":8906329,"letterContent":"The addition of my Mindful Coloring Corner has been interesting in that I wasn't sure how students would react to it. There was initial excitement about something that was perceived as less academic in my classroom but after that initial interest died down, I found that it is fulfilling my real purpose, and I am delighted.\r\n\r\nIt has been used as a reset for students feeling overwhelmed decreasing the need for them to leave my classroom for a break. At least they can still listen to the lesson if they are present in the classroom. A more powerful and unexpected benefit is that the coloring station has allowed me to sit with a student and color together while we have a \"tough\" conversation. Several of my students I have got to know better through coloring, and I am super grateful for that!","fullyFundedDate":1730158190072,"projectUrl":"project/mindful-coloring/8906329/","projectTitle":"Mindful Coloring","teacherDisplayName":"Dr. Hack","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/dr-hack"},{"teacherId":9726300,"projectId":8733901,"letterContent":"It has made such a difference having some TI-Inspire calculators in my room! \r\nThese are the same calculators my 9th grade students use in math, and I have noticed an easier time for my students, such as being able to use it without asking questions. \r\nThis grant helped me get 7 of these calculators. Typically, I will ask first if there is anyone who prefers to use them. What I have found interesting is that it is consistently my students who receive special education services who ask to use them. This reaffirms for me that this was a purchase that helps serve them and all students. \r\nI wanted to send a heart felt message of appreciation for donating to help my students make math a little bit easier for them. I know there are numerous ways you could have contributed, to numerous causes, and I thank you for picking this one. This has gotten the momentum started in having a unified class set. With that, we can continue on into using them as a class for bigger computations and physics calculations as well.","fullyFundedDate":1727476687132,"projectUrl":"project/ti-inspire-my-physics-students/8733901/","projectTitle":"TI-Inspire My Physics Students!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Eiting","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9726300_orig.jpg?crop=2237,2237,x302,y574&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725357452909","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9726300"},{"teacherId":1058869,"projectId":8907128,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making our learning space more comfortable. Between rigorous learning tasks and the stress of colleges and scholarships, our seniors really walk around with a constant level of stress. The items you contributed to my classroom definitely invite student to destress more while working in my space. The comfy chairs are a huge hit, and the students seem to enjoy the warm drink while they are working. I even find students from other grades enjoying the cozy space before school and during lunch. 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