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I like to provide as many performing and instructional opportunities as possible for these awesome students. I am requesting funds to support my middle and high school string orchestra students with more and better accessories for their instruments (should rests, rosin, cases, etc.) as well as sheet music, registration fees and meals for festivals and field trips, and instructional support from local private string teachers and mentors These are motivated, creative, and talented students who deserve your support to help them reach their musical potential. Thank you!! Read more Las Nuevas Adventuras del Quijote School: El Camino Real Academy My students undertake a 3 month study of Don Quijote and conclude the project by writing their own adventures, in Spanish, for characters from the story. The projects are presented as a celebration/presentation of their work for their families. I am requesting funds to support transportation, supplies and incentives for my students. Read more Restorative Justice School: El Camino Real Academy Restorative Justice is a non-traditional class, where we work with students on building emotional intelligence and applying it through our Big Buddy Program, where they mentor younger, elementary students. Read more Therapeutic Horseback Riding for Special Education Classes School: El Camino Real Academy The three high needs special education classes are made up of 24 students grades kindergarten-8th diagnosed with a range of exceptionalities. We have already received funding to cover the costs of therapeutic horseback riding. We are currently requesting $500 to assist in covering special education transportation to and from the local therapeutic riding facility. Therapeutic horseback riding is a form of recreation for individuals with disabilities that can provide physical, emotional and psychological benefits. Anecdotal and scientific studies have attested that therapeutic riding can positively contribute to balance, coordination, strength, self-confidence and coping skills. Read more Music Camp School: Acequia Madre Elementary School The Acequia Madre Choir and Band are planning their third annual music camp and retreat at Hummingbird Music Camp! Students will sing and play, participate in camp activities, have a campfire, and stay overnight at Hummingbird music camp in the beautiful Jemez mountains. Students will get to work with a guest teacher and finish the retreat with a concert for their families. Funds will help offset the cost of music camp and provide scholarships for students who are unable to pay their cost of attendance. Read more Ortiz MS Choir Music Fund School: Ortiz Middle School The choir department at Ortiz has the most students of any arts program, at 120 students. We sing every day and put on 4 concerts a year. The students perform in for their peers, their parents, and also for the community. This money would allow the program to buy music, fund our accompanists, fund bussing for field trips, and buy supplies for the classroom. Read more Mustang Singers Southern California Choir Tour School: Nina Otero Community School I am looking for donations to help my 8th grade class go on a choir tour to Anaheim, CA May 2-5. My 8th grade choir will be the first in their school history to travel to California for a prestigious choir festival. They will get to perform for some of the best judges and and attend an awards ceremony at Disneyland. Not to mention we will take a trip to the ocean which some of them will be seeing for the first time. These kids may never have a chance to travel like this again and I do not want finances to stop our dreams! If you have ever been a part of a music program, you know that music changes lives and this trip could change the trajectory of the rest of their lives. Read more Early Readers Program School: Nina Otero Community School I am requesting $300 to support a reading program for primary students who are close to reading at grade level. Read more Lobo Howler School Magazine School: Gonzales Community School We create and print a school wide school news magazine. Our 25 enrichment students 5th thru 8th grade do most of it but it is open to school-wide submissions of work and stories. We distribute 350 free copies printed by the Santa Fe New Mexican. They charge $400. per 16 page issue. Our "Lobo Howler" is fully student created although as a teacher I do coach them on the publisher software use and help with the final layout. We have already published our first Autumn issue and we will do one more Holiday issue for December and a spring issue in May. We need to print two more issues of our News Magazine for this year at a cost of $800 total. Read more Model Legislature Youth and Government School: Capital High School We teach students to actively engage in democracy. Twelve students participate by researching, writing and debating bills with students from all over New Mexico. This takes place at the Roundhouse--our state capitol. Capital high students learn all aspects of policy making. They learn to think on their feet, and address issues from all over the state: gun control, green energy, film making incentives, economic development, safety and DWI prevention etc..There is also a judiciary where students learn to argue both sides of a brief regarding a contemporary legal case. Other students act as justices, like in an appellate court. A fourth branch in which students are involved is the press. They can do print media through a newspaper or video media. The cost per student is $200. This includes overnight at a local hotel, meals and miscellaneous supplies. Read more Books! School: Nina Otero Community School This school is lacking class sets of books. I would really like to be able to purchase two classroom sets of books. We currently have an F grade and are trying to turn the school around by increasing opportunity and rigor. Increasing access to literature would help our students increase their literacy and would help me to be able to show them how to access this literature and really make it a worthwhile endeavor. Read more Dancing in the Big Apple School: Santa Fe High School SFHS Dancers are returning to New York City for our third trip (2015, 2017, 2019) to take dance classes. These classes at professional studios, Broadway Dance Center and StepsNYC, are $20/each. We are seeking funding to allow each of the 15 students to take a full schedule of four classes each. They will take classes alongside professional Broadway and ballet dancers. This trip brings Santa Fe High dance students to the heart of the American Theatre to experience training at the highest level. Read more Set-up A Science Room School: Nina Otero Community School Two volunteers are being paid to set up a resource room that will make science materials available to middle school science teachers for hands on explorations. We have a number of units that were replaced in the elementary grades that contain basics that can be used in the middle school classes. These classes have new teachers who are relying on text books and basic materials purchased with their own funds. This program will help enhance their lessons with hands on explorations for students. I am requesting $500 to pay 2 volunteers who are sorting through various donated materials, Some funds will also be used to fill in gaps for additional materials. Read more Accelerated Book Program School: Acequia Madre Elementary School I am requesting $1,000 to use toward my library. I do not have any level books, which make it hard to determine the exact reading levels per individual. These funds will help our students became less frustrated because they will have books at their level. It will also help our higher students by engaging them in interesting and advanced books. Please help our students set the foundation for a lifelong love for reading!!! Many Thanks ~ Ms. Kat Read more Piano Performance Mastery School: El Camino Real Academy I request a funding for El Camino Real Academy (former Agua Fria Elementary school) piano students. El Camino Real piano students are very talented group of students. They work hard and play the piano very well. So many of them dream of being students of New Mexico School for the Arts. However they do not have funds for a piano tutor. I help them as much as I can after dismissal of school, but they need a professional piano teacher who would help them to prepare for audition for NM School for the Arts. Audition for the School of the Arts are usually held at the beginning of February. It would in the best interest of my students if they could receive financial help as soon as it is possible, so they can get ready. Please, help my piano students. Read more Volunteer Background Check Assistance School: Multiple Santa Fe Public Schools As the SFPS Volunteer Coordinator, and in an effort to encourage a more diverse volunteer population, I would like to offer paid background fees for up to 50 volunteer applicants to distributed throughout 5 different schools within the Santa Fe Public School District. Certain demographic criteria, including a residence radius of applicants who live within 6 blocks of the schools' attendance area will be required to be eligible for usage of the background check funds. Read more Hands-on History of Photography at Monte Del Sol Charter School School: Monte Del Sol Charter School Please support photography students participating in a hands-on/experiential 19th century photographic history project - Hands on History of Photography. This project will directly deal with the 1851 discovery of the collodion wet plate process. Students will read historical texts, view historical images and make in-camera renditions of modern day collodion photographs. The funding is needed for all consumable materials including silver nitrate (fairly expensive), metal and glass plates for making the images, and all of the various chemicals needed for processing Read more Science at the Bradbury in Los Alamos School: El Camino Real Academy Several years ago, Dollars4Schools funded my request to pay for buses to take my students to the Bradbury Science Museum. It was so valuable. I want to take the students I have now. We'll need two 44-student buses, 8th grade science is physical science, including physics and chemistry, and the Bradbury is the best place in the state for this. My students have never been. At the Bradbury they will learn about cryogenics and liquid nitrogen, which is critical to a deep understanding phase change and chemical versus physical interactions; about radioactivity and the atom; about our history; and about rockets and forces, motion and gravitation. The museum visit will anchor conversations and activities in class for the entire spring semester. At this dual language school I teach my classes in Spanish, but the kids are bilingual. Read more Friday Service Projects at The MASTERS Program School: The MASTERS Program Early College Charter High School The MASTERS Program is an early college charter school on the campus of SFCC, serving a diversity of students, many of whom are the first generation in their families to go to college. The program allows students to move at their own pace and integrates high school classes with college classes based on each individual. We also provide a strong supportive community and service to the greater Santa Fe community. Friday Projects are service-learning based and take our students in faculty-led groups out into the Santa Fe community every Friday. From the Humane Society, to The Horse Shelter, to Habitat for Humanity to Pinon Elementary School and to working with the county on trails, and more, we are building character and giving teens a sense of value with this program. Our request is for support running a bus that can take students to these projects. As a charter school, we cannot afford our own buses and the cost of renting each Friday is approximately $400/day. Read more