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{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Willard Middle School","outOfStateSupporters":14.4,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":12064,"projectId":9804082,"letterContent":"Thank you for all of your support in getting all these random pieces of math (and science) destruction for our classroom. Every specific piece is being utilized to enhance instruction and learning.\r\n\r\nTeachers wind up spending lots of money on their classroom for creative facilitation tools and supplies, which can make a learning more magical or connect with them on a deeper level.\r\n\r\nThanks for helping me out with all of these wonderful things. I really appreciate you giving back to the community in this way.","fullyFundedDate":1761327307070,"projectUrl":"project/wanted-weapons-of-math-destruction-bwa/9804082/","projectTitle":"Wanted: Weapons of Math Destruction! Bwa Ha Ha!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. \"Algebro” MacCarthy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp12064_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1452746938721","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/12064"},{"teacherId":2479875,"projectId":9801942,"letterContent":"Nothing motivates teenagers more than food. Students feel loved, scene and heard when you can give them a snack. Typically, counselors have had to purchase their own food to support students and counseling groups. \r\n\r\nIt has been wonderful to have snacks for groups and individual counseling sessions. Students were really excited when they saw the big boxes arrive. One of them even said \"you got the good snacks this time\". So far these treats have been enjoyed by an art group, a boys group and a games group. These groups take place at lunch time so having a tasty treat is an added incentive for students to participate. \r\n\r\nThanks again for your generous support for my students.","fullyFundedDate":1760710196235,"projectUrl":"project/snacks-for-counseling-groups/9801942/","projectTitle":"Snacks for Counseling Groups","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Antonuccio","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2479875_orig.jpg?crop=1733,1733,x846,y181&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1759949443622","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2479875"},{"teacherId":12064,"projectId":9527095,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation to get our classroom a new computer. I can't even start to tell you how many different uses we have for this computer. It gets used daily for classroom procedures, but in addition to that many different fun projects are worked on on it. \r\n\r\nOK, I lied. I can start to tell you about some of the things we do on it. We make math and science songs, music videos, and games for the class review many simple, and complicated topics on it.\r\nIt adds multiple layers of understanding and different modalities of learning. \r\n\r\nOnce again, thank you so much and I hope you have a great weekend. It's people like you who really make a difference in public education.","fullyFundedDate":1757795925932,"projectUrl":"project/classroom-computer-for-math-and-science/9527095/","projectTitle":"Classroom Computer for Math and Science Music Videos and More","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. \"Algebro” MacCarthy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp12064_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1452746938721","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/12064"},{"teacherId":1049246,"projectId":9376915,"letterContent":"We are off to such a strong start! Every child now has a book in their backpack and they are meeting their goals of reading 4-6 chapter books per quarter. The art supplies have been already put to good use as we began our portrait poetry project and will also be used in our myriad art/history projects such as Egyptian burial tombs in a shoebox, our lapbooks on Mesopotamia along with many other hands-on activities. \r\n\r\nOur public schools depend on the generosity of those who have, to provide a rich learning environment for ALL children, including the have-nots. Until we fully fund all public schools, this is the best way to keep the supplies flowing so that children have real books and actual art supplies to hone their crafts. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for supporting my students this year.","fullyFundedDate":1755574053579,"projectUrl":"project/off-to-a-strong-start-art-and-literatur/9376915/","projectTitle":"Off to a Strong Start: Art and Literature","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Faur","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1049246"},{"teacherId":12064,"projectId":9488332,"letterContent":"Hey there.Thank you so much for all your donations for these team sports. This equipment is already being used daily and smiles are on faces. There are multiple classes using this equipment and they're loving it. \r\n\r\nThe footballer are extremely useful for new players to the game to call different plays and have the receivers run in different locations. Everyone's definitely benefiting from this addition.\r\n\r\nThanks so much for your contribution for this project. I hope you're having a great week and continue to be a strong force for public schools.","fullyFundedDate":1754155117696,"projectUrl":"project/inclusive-team-sports-needs-football-equ/9488332/","projectTitle":"Inclusive Team Sports Needs Football Equipment","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. \"Algebro” MacCarthy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp12064_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1452746938721","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/12064"},{"teacherId":373183,"projectId":9363684,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for this donation to our middle school MakerSpace. Our program only started about 6 years ago and we are still acquiring supplies to use to develop & teach our curriculum units. We try to give students a good overview of career & technical pathways available to them both at the high school and beyond, such as computer science, robotics, fabrication, and engineering. The 6 Arduino devices purchased with this donation have gotten us much closer to a complete class set to use in a unit of study with our students in these elective classes. \r\n\r\nThe Arduinos are a great learning tool that combines computer programming and physical devices. They give my students the ability to create a system that uses inputs like push buttons to operate outputs like LED lights and motors. They are getting text based coding practice to create the instructions for the devices, along with a more advanced level of circuitry when they build their devices as they wire up lights, buttons, capacitors, resistors, motors, and more using jumper wires connected to breadboards.\r\n\r\nThis project would not have been possible without your generous donation, and I thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1748198522909,"projectUrl":"project/makerspace-needs-arduinos/9363684/","projectTitle":"MakerSpace needs Arduinos","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Lenz","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp373183_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1512423445479","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/373183"},{"teacherId":9785847,"projectId":9040477,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my students by donating kindles. I work with four different groups of struggling middle school readers teaching Morphology. In addition, students read on the kindles daily, listening to an audio version of the book while following along with the text. This enables them to move through age-appropriate stories more quickly, and with more pleasure. It helps them improve their vocabulary, their reading comprehension and their fluency. The kindles allow students to turn on and off the audio version of the book very easily so they can read out loud to teachers every day and then jump back into listening when they have finished reading a page out loud.\r\n\r\nWithout the kindles, my students wouldn't read. Most of them have a history of pretending to read during independent reading time and rarely finishing books. With the kindles students read an average of twelve books a year, and some students read upwards of twenty! As you may know, many studies have tied the number of books a student reads to positive educational outcomes. Your generosity has directly enabled my students to read more! Thank you so much for your support for this program.","fullyFundedDate":1743106567402,"projectUrl":"project/1000-books-in-your-backpack/9040477/","projectTitle":"1000 Books in Your Backpack","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Odyniec","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9785847"},{"teacherId":2479875,"projectId":9573649,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your continued support for me and my students. Your generosity makes a difference. \r\n\r\nThrough your support I am able to support my students with multi media presentations that support social emotional learning in their classrooms. I am able to work faster which allows me more time to spend supporting my students. One of the projects I am planning for this year is frequent grade checks and goal setting in classrooms. This will allow me to be mobile and track student progress. \r\n\r\nThank you all for supporting public education and supporting me and my students. It really makes a difference.","fullyFundedDate":1755750010061,"projectUrl":"project/macbook-air-to-support-my-work-with-stud/9573649/","projectTitle":"Macbook Air to Support My Work with Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Antonuccio","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2479875_orig.jpg?crop=1733,1733,x846,y181&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1759949443622","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2479875"},{"teacherId":2479875,"projectId":9161899,"letterContent":"I really appreciate your support in funding our new conference table and chairs. We are now able to fit more students during our groups and we have been able to replace the dirty old stained chairs. The chairs have wheels which the students really love. \r\n\r\nLast week we hosted a group for new 7th and 8th graders at Willard. We had a full house since it was the beginning of the year and everyone was able to play a game together at the table and participate in ice breakers to get to know some other new students. It was great to have a warm welcoming space to welcome these new members of our community.\r\n\r\nThanks again for all of your continued support.","fullyFundedDate":1746787112574,"projectUrl":"project/a-foundation-for-feelings/9161899/","projectTitle":"A Foundation for Feelings","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Antonuccio","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2479875_orig.jpg?crop=1733,1733,x846,y181&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1759949443622","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2479875"},{"teacherId":12064,"projectId":9350025,"letterContent":"Thanks for your wonderful generosity towards my grant for art materials for the classroom. We will coffee be able to use these on many projects for this upcoming school year.\r\n\r\nSchools have no budget for art materials, especially for math and science teachers. These help my students get into the project and start thinking about what the topic is all about.\r\n\r\nThe art is also displayed as we go through the unit and gives our classroom a great vibe.\r\n\r\nThanks again for supporting this project. I hope you continue to give joy to many more teachers if possible..","fullyFundedDate":1747762735350,"projectUrl":"project/let-our-community-learn-more-about-clima/9350025/","projectTitle":"Let Our Community Learn more about Climate Justice","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. \"Algebro” MacCarthy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp12064_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1452746938721","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/12064"},{"teacherId":12064,"projectId":9321416,"letterContent":"Just wanna let you know that we got all the equipment at the end of last school year and it's secured and ready to roll for this new school year.\r\n\r\nI can't wait to get things started. Our six graders are new to our school and they'll be really impressed with how prepared we are for the fun!\r\n\r\nKids really connect fast when we're playing games and team sports. They'll really be able to get to know each other quickly as they play games they know and also learn a few new ones.\r\n\r\nThanks again for your generosity and I hope you're having a great summer.","fullyFundedDate":1746920055523,"projectUrl":"project/getting-active-for-grade-level-competiti/9321416/","projectTitle":"Getting Active for Grade Level Competition and More","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. \"Algebro” MacCarthy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp12064_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1452746938721","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/12064"},{"teacherId":12064,"projectId":9100641,"letterContent":"Great news. We've had the sign up and operating for the last few months and students really love seeing their work and thinking being highlighted and celebrated.\r\n\r\nStudents are also getting in the mix and helping program the sign as well as throwing in some academic jokes and other fun math and science tidbits.\r\n\r\nI really appreciate your support in making this project happen. It really lives up our classroom and helps our positive behavior support by highlighting what we're looking for in the classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1742919365467,"projectUrl":"project/let-everyone-hear-the-great-news-of-stud/9100641/","projectTitle":"Let Everyone Hear the Great News of Student Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. \"Algebro” MacCarthy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp12064_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1452746938721","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/12064"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_3753","uses�ǿմ�ý":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":578,"numTeachers":29,"percentFrplEligible":25,"percentAsian":11,"percentBlack":10,"percentWhite":43,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":19,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"6 - 8","studentTeacherRatio":"19.9:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":false,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_MIDSIZE"},"inStateSupporters":85.6,"schoolId":3753,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Willard Middle School on @�ǿմ�ý:","schoolName":"Willard Middle School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/berkeley-unified-school-district/willard-middle-school/3753"}