Our school lies in the heart of Kansas City. Nearby is the Jewish Vocational Services. They bring in and place refugee families who are fleeing oppression and war. Many of our students come out of these situations. These children battle social, emotional, and cultural boundaries in their everyday learning. Some of our students are born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and we are learning to bridge racial boundaries. Our entire student population qualifies for free lunch and breakfast, but still, our students are frequently hungry.
My job is to teach students in a manner that allows their personalities to thrive, their culture to be maintained, and my expectations to stay high.
Many students start becoming ashamed of their home language and they quit speaking it. I try to be an advocate for them to maintain diverse minds and hearts so they can remain open to the world. Some days are spent feeding their physical and emotional needs before even sharpening our pencils. We work together to find each students' strengths, building upon those as we learn together.
My Project
We've created a Sustainability club, and our students are working to make our school cleaner and safer. Our hope is to supply each room with recycling bins, students staffed to help the process, and materials to help grown our own vegetables.
By investing in our sustainability, our hope is to teach generations how to properly care for their community through reducing, reusing, and recycling.
Teaching our students is important, but having them live in the responsibility, I believe, will allow them to care more of how their community is protected and how it will grow! Our kids will have the opportunity to teach lessons to the lower grades as a "Sustainability Club" by modeling how to collect and recycle using the recycling bins, wearing their "sustainability garb" and influence their community.
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