Gandhi once said that "we must be the change we wish to see in the world!" Our students are always eager to learn STEAM through meaningful and cooperative hands-on explorations in order to become the "agents of changing our world" for the better one lesson at a time. They keep this positive attitude towards solving problems in our community and greater world despite facing the extra obstacles that growing up in a high poverty urban neighborhood often bring to their young lives.
I teach in a pre-K through grade 8 public elementary school where 100% of our student body qualifies for free lunch.
We are proud to serve in an extremely culturally diverse school with the highest percentage of students whose families currently reside in homeless shelters of any school in our city.
My Project
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
In order for our students to make a difference in their community and the future of our world, we must teach them habits of mind that will have a positive impact on their lives and our community in which we live and learn together!
Just as famed anthropologist Margaret Mead stated, it is small groups of people committed to making positive change that changes our world in the most profound ways. With the generous support of "Tom's of Maine", these recycling and composting materials will put our students in the driver's seat by allowing them to practice recycling and composting, thus transforming our entire school community's, and hopefully our surrounding neighborhood's, connection to preserving our local environment.
We will start with our older students in both of our buildings, grade 5 and grade 8, leading our new school-wide daily recycling pickups and composting initiatives. They will lead a daily pickup campaign of recycled materials collected in each of the classroom blue recycle bins we are requesting in this proposal. The students will also lead a school-wide effort in making sure that at both of our cafeterias we are throwing away less food waste through use of the composting and worm compost kits requested. It will trickle out until all school members, students and staff, learn through sound habits of mind to separate out wastes that can instead be recycled or composted, from that which will still head to landfills, thus doing our part to reduce waste at our school and in our greater community!
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