Date: February 2025

School: Highland School District

Wish Delivered: Classroom Books

Teacher Kaleigh Poxleitner says "This will be my first year teaching literary studies (beginning in January) and we are lacking a supply of books beyond the boring classics. I want to be able to get multiple students interested in reading, and in order to do that, I need a larger variety of texts."

Wish Amount: $932.66

Date: February 2025

School: Orofino Jr. Senior High

Wish Delivered: Whiteboard and whiteboard supplies

Teacher Clarissa Beauregard says "I teach high school students ELA. We've been practicing more vertical learning, which is where they are working at white boards, standing and in groups. These groupings have immensely impacted the amount of buy-in, engagement, and critical thinking in all of my classes. We notoriously have low engagement throughout our school, but these vertical learning activities have proven that movement and allowing for more small group discussion and critical thinking increases student engagement."

Wish Amount: $393.85

Date: January 2025

School: Rocky Mountain High

Wish Delivered: Rolling Whiteboards

Teacher Daniel Drlik says "Student Council is the lifeblood of a high school. We plan events, promote activities, recognize individuals, and build school culture. This year we have accomplished many awesome things. We have begun new traditions. For example, a Hoe Down dance where we invited a DJ and line dance instructors to show the students how to line dance. This is something that we want to continue. We also like to hype up our sporting events as well as other competitions such as concerts and performances by our various competitive organizations. However, we are limited in trying to stay organized. We have a class of over 80 students and communication is difficult. With these whiteboards, we would be able to stay more organized."

Wish Amount: $1050.00

Date: January 2025

School: Canyon Springs Alternative

Wish Delivered: Math Supplies

Teacher Jamie Jamtaas says "We require clear backpacks within our school to promote a sense of safety and unity for our students. By showing other students there is nothing to hide it allows for the kids to focus fully on their education. However, many of our students come to us from different life situations that make it hard for them to get their own backpack. We want to be able to offer them this item upon entry into the school without any stress to them. Most of our students come to us with Math being the main course needed to graduate. Our calculators we currently use are so old and unreliable that for many students they need to rely on other resources to help them. We want to have working, readily accessible calculators for each math classroom so our students can again focus on their education and not on fixing the problem."

Wish Amount: $1391.00