{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Kaleidoscope Academy","outOfStateSupporters":24.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5626755,"projectId":9732142,"letterContent":"Thanks to this project, our students now have access to books that truly meet them where they are as readers—and help them grow. These new texts introduce key reading skills like making inferences, identifying themes, expanding vocabulary through context, and building stamina with longer, more complex stories. Many of the books also open the door to meaningful discussions about characters, problem-solving, and seeing the world from different perspectives.\r\n\r\nReading in our classroom is active and joyful. You'll often see students reading independently, partnered up to discuss a chapter, or gathered in small groups where we pause to ask questions, make predictions, and connect the story to our own lives. These books have made it easier to teach mini-lessons because students are genuinely engaged and eager to talk about what they're reading.\r\n\r\nSeveral students who were once hesitant readers have been especially excited about the new books. One student now asks to take books home so they can keep reading at night, while another proudly recommends titles to classmates. Seeing students build confidence, excitement, and a true love of reading has been one of the most meaningful outcomes of this project. Your support didn't just add books to our shelves—it helped create readers.","fullyFundedDate":1760701965564,"projectUrl":"project/building-a-diverse-classroom-library-t/9732142/","projectTitle":"Building a Diverse Classroom Library & Tools for Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rubsam","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5626755_272x272.png?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1533534635356","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5626755"},{"teacherId":5626755,"projectId":9223277,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting inquiry and project-based/arts integrated learning in our classroom! Because of your generous donation, my 7th grade humanities students now have access to inquiry and project-based materials that have completely transformed the way they learn. We are using these new resources daily to support student-led research, collaborative discussions, and hands-on projects connected to our curriculum. One of our first projects using the materials focused on our names and this history of them. Students worked individually to investigate their names, write a short essay about their names, create visuals, and share their work in the hallways.\r\n\r\nWhen students first saw the materials, their excitement was immediate and genuine. Several students asked if we could start using them right away, and others eagerly began brainstorming project ideas. Many of my students who are typically hesitant to participate became more confident because the materials encouraged exploration rather than \"right or wrong\" answers. The hands-on nature of the resources made learning feel more meaningful and engaging for them.\r\n\r\nThese materials have allowed my classroom to shift from teacher-directed lessons to student-centered inquiry. Students are now asking deeper questions, supporting their ideas with evidence, and collaborating more effectively with their peers. I have seen students take ownership of their learning in ways I had not seen before. The classroom atmosphere is more energized, focused, and creative as a result.\r\n\r\nRight now, students are beginning a new project that connects historical inquiry to modern-day issues. They will use the materials to research primary sources, design solutions, and reflect on how the past informs the present. The next steps include peer feedback, revisions, and a final showcase of their work.\r\n\r\nThank you for making this powerful learning experience possible. Your support has had a lasting impact on my students and their confidence as thinkers, researchers, and collaborators. They truly feel that their learning matters, and that is because of you.","fullyFundedDate":1757178637637,"projectUrl":"project/fuel-the-future-of-arts-integration-in/9223277/","projectTitle":"Fuel the Future of Arts Integration & Inquiry","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rubsam","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5626755_272x272.png?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1533534635356","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5626755"},{"teacherId":9489734,"projectId":9348311,"letterContent":"We can not thank you enough for the gift you have given us! You have allowed students to be safe in an environment that is meant to help them grow without needing to sit out due to something as embarrassing as missing shoes. Not only has this allowed students to wear shoes without being singled out but others have seen the nicer shoes and asked \"Can we wear a pair? They look so comfortable!\" \r\nWe have gotten complements about how comfortable they are and students have been asking to use them which is a complete 180 from last year when we didn't even have shoes that fit the students.\r\nYou all are amazing people and you truly have changed our lives and have helped us move toward a better future!","fullyFundedDate":1751496282310,"projectUrl":"project/shoes-in-need/9348311/","projectTitle":"Shoes in Need","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Gibson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9489734"},{"teacherId":9489734,"projectId":9237214,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for giving our students the opportunity to have a well rounded learning journey that includes the importance of stretching. This allows us to learn how to stretch correctly, how stretching can improve overall lifestyle, along with out weight lifting and exercise curriculum. \r\nYou all are absolutely amazing people for helping us reach this goal and to help us continue to give us new opportunities for growth! I can not believe how much good is out there and I hope you continue to make others dreams come true!\r\nYou really are improving other peoples lives!","fullyFundedDate":1746787237588,"projectUrl":"project/stretching-our-way-to-a-good-life/9237214/","projectTitle":"Stretching Our Way to a Good Life","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Gibson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9489734"},{"teacherId":5048829,"projectId":9282845,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation! We are so excited to be able to offer new floor and wall sensory paths for our students for the 2025-2026 school year. The ones that we currently have down have been used a lot and need to be replaced. After the floors and walls have been cleaned in the summer, new sensory paths will be placed down as a surprise for our students in the fall. Our sensory paths have been a success to help students be able to regulate and then return to class in a calmer state of mind. If the sensory path isn't successful on a particular day, then students are still able to utilize our self-regulation room for extra support. \r\nThank you for making this happen for our students. We are beyond grateful!","fullyFundedDate":1746787254888,"projectUrl":"project/pathways-for-success/9282845/","projectTitle":"Pathways for Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kempf-Cohen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5048829_orig.jpg?crop=733,733,x187,y119&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627617779623","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kempf-cohen"},{"teacherId":5048829,"projectId":9242371,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us to reach our goal to be able to purchase new resources focused on self-regulation skills for our students. Our goal is to teach new skills while building on previous skills learned to strengthen student \"toolboxes\" so that they are able to keep their central nervous systems calm in different environmental settings. \r\nWe used our new books during small groups with students and asked them to select strategies that the thought would be the most effective for middle school students. \r\nWe are very lucky for your support and your kindness is noticed and so appreciated. Thank you for investing in our students.","fullyFundedDate":1744234940783,"projectUrl":"project/brain-breaks-to-regulate/9242371/","projectTitle":"Brain Breaks to Regulate","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kempf-Cohen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5048829_orig.jpg?crop=733,733,x187,y119&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627617779623","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kempf-cohen"},{"teacherId":5626755,"projectId":9079199,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donations to our Puppetry is Powerful project! We had SO MUCH FUN learning the art of storytelling and creating puppets to share with each other. The creativity was on fire, and the learning was, too! Your donations made a huge difference, and we cannot thank you enough.\r\nEach student had the ability to work creatively with the paper, brads, tape, and cellophane paper to create an individual puppet that represented a character in a story. The supplies you donated were essential to their success!\r\nIn the future, we plan to use our skills to create more puppets to share with younger students and practice our storytelling skills. \r\nThank you again for your generous support!","fullyFundedDate":1739455294408,"projectUrl":"project/puppetry-is-powerful/9079199/","projectTitle":"Puppetry is Powerful!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rubsam","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5626755_272x272.png?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1533534635356","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5626755"},{"teacherId":5048829,"projectId":9192776,"letterContent":"Thank you for investing in our students! We are always so appreciative of the support that we receive and our students are too. Our students have loved seeing new tools to use in our self-regulation room and student service offices. The Needoh cubes and the 3D printed fidgets are some of the most popular that students are using the most and we have been able to replace other tools that were getting worn out. We are grateful to have the ability to offer replacement self-regulation tools and our students promise that they will get a ton of use out of them. Thank you again for your kindness and for your dedication to supporting positive mental health. We appreciate you more than words can be explained.","fullyFundedDate":1743693496788,"projectUrl":"project/regulation-for-learning/9192776/","projectTitle":"Regulation for Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kempf-Cohen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5048829_orig.jpg?crop=733,733,x187,y119&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627617779623","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kempf-cohen"},{"teacherId":9489734,"projectId":9191267,"letterContent":"My student were so excited to see these set up in the gym when they walked in! They had been practicing with hula hoops but this gave them a chance to actually interact with the equipment that they were using other than just having some random target. I gave them the choice between the hula hoops and the fish and EVERY one of them chose the fish! Even the students who in the past were not so involved in fishing participated! \r\n\r\nThe students even started hanging the fish they caught on the volleyball standards on the wall like a stringer! It was awesome to be able to give them this opportunity and it was all because of you wonderful people! Thank you all so much for helping us achieve this new challenge.","fullyFundedDate":1743849629780,"projectUrl":"project/fishing-for-our-health-practicing-lifet/9191267/","projectTitle":"Fishing for our Health: Practicing Lifetime Activities","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Gibson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9489734"},{"teacherId":5048829,"projectId":9192916,"letterContent":"Thank you again for your generous donation to help us get snacks for our students. We know that when we focus on their basic needs first, they are able to focus on academics. Students were excited and appreciated the snacks so much. It is always wonderful to be able to offer a variety of choices so that students can choose what snack will be best for them for the morning or afternoon. \r\nWe were even able to use some of our snacks for our state testing time. It was so nice to be able to have snacks available as an additional source of support for students during their testing window. We are beyond thankful for your help to make this happen and we are lucky to have such incredible support from the community. Thank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1742823923507,"projectUrl":"project/snacks-for-success/9192916/","projectTitle":"Snacks for Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kempf-Cohen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5048829_orig.jpg?crop=733,733,x187,y119&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627617779623","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kempf-cohen"},{"teacherId":9489734,"projectId":8883932,"letterContent":"With the gifts you gave us to be able to swap out intimidating equipment for gator balls, you also gave the students the ability to learn and grow in a safe environment. The gym can be a very overwhelming area for a lot of people with the noise and movement and so it only makes it harder when they are not comfortable with the more advanced equipment. \r\n\r\nWhen I got the chance to pull out equipment that was softer as an alternative for a student who was struggling, I got a look of relief that I will never forget. But that wasn't all, I also has other students come over and ask if they could try it out to to see if it would help them. \r\n\r\nWe also got to play different heart rate games with them such as Omnikin Battle Ball where you throw the gator balls at the HUGE Omnikin Ball to get it to move across the floor into the other teams territory. It was a huge hit and we even got some staff to come join in!\r\n\r\nThis has opened up the students to the thought of help is not a bad thing, but a thing we need to grow and I could not have made that possible without all of you! Thank you all so so much for everything you have helped us achieve and for being absolutely amazing people!","fullyFundedDate":1739455237901,"projectUrl":"project/safe-and-fun-pe/8883932/","projectTitle":"Safe and Fun PE","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Gibson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9489734"},{"teacherId":9489734,"projectId":8883891,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping us give the opportunity to get better at skills that the students love! The one story that I wanted to touch on is one that had a HUGE impact. I have a student who only wants to do soccer and has a really hard time connecting to others in the PE space. Throughout this fundraiser, we got a parachute in which all of the students were SO excited to use but we also got Kickit Birdies in which you can play badminton but with your feet to make it much harder.\r\n\r\nThis student came up to me and was talking about how all he wanted was a soccer ball and how he was not going to participate otherwise because badminton was to easy. I then explained to him the importance of the game skills and brought out the Kickits. He lit up and you could see the pure excitement in his eyes. He not only got to participate, but he got to teach others how to rally with their feet that he otherwise would not hang out with. \r\n\r\nThis was an absolutely amazing thing to see and it was all made by you amazing people! Thank you all so much for helping us build and grow together!","fullyFundedDate":1732598874903,"projectUrl":"project/pe-in-middle-school-can-still-be-fun-and/8883891/","projectTitle":"PE in Middle School Can Still Be Fun AND Challenging","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Gibson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9489734"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_95350","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":460,"numTeachers":44,"percentFrplEligible":55,"percentAsian":7,"percentBlack":7,"percentWhite":58,"percentIndigenous":1,"percentLatinx":17,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"6 - 8","studentTeacherRatio":"10.5:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_SMALL"},"inStateSupporters":75.7,"schoolId":95350,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Kaleidoscope Academy on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Kaleidoscope Academy","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/wisconsin/appleton-area-school-district/kaleidoscope-academy/95350"}