Diversity and inclusion is the mantra that drives each member of our school's staff. Our students' ethnic roots span the globe; Turkish, Russian, Ukraine, Spanish, African American, and many more. Here we see every skin color and many dialects and yet we all come together to work for common understanding. This marriage of backgrounds expands into our curriculum. While we emphasize a strong scientific base we also integrate this with the arts and humanities. The artists become scientists and the scientists discover creativity through the arts. Many of my students struggle with learning, social and emotional disabilities. The economic background is wide and includes many students on the free and reduced-price lunch program.
At our school students strive to develop the intellectual, linguistic, cultural, interpersonal, and advocacy skills needed to succeed in a global future.
They nurture each other through clubs, after school projects, activities and a hope squad whose student members are trained to intervene for a peer in crisis.
They win awards in Robotics, host a yearly STEM fest, win art contests, display great musical abilities and last year our 6th graders beat out Juniors and Seniors in H.S. Utah Entrepreneur Challenge.
My Project
My classroom is an environment for tech minded students to create. As they create, they expand their idea of what they might accomplish. Offering students as much variety as possible will help spark their creativity and open up new thought.
Metalwork is a medium most students never have experienced.
It is a step between creating a drawing on paper and creating 3 dimensional work. Flat drawings begin to take actual form.
My students come from all different backgrounds and abilities. Metal sculpting is a media that I believe will reach more students. Once they are engaged in a project, they become far more open to learning concepts that otherwise become too abstract to fully understand
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