Help me give my students yoga blocks to ease anxiety & stress both at school and home!
$167 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Our school is a middle school of approximately 410 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. About 60% of our students receive free or reduced-rate lunches. We estimate another 10% to have similar need. At 50% Hispanic, 20% African American, and 30% Caucasian, we are very diverse.
As a Title I school, our financial resources are limited, and creativity within the classroom environment is essential to tap into each student's individual learning style.
Providing the best learning environment and classroom experiences have been my mission as a science teacher over the last 14 years.
My Project
With abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and anxiety on the rise among children, teachers need to be continually in tune with the traumas facing the students that they teach. Past traumas are kept in "memory" in our bodies and triggered even outside of those past events... even in a safe environment such as our public schools.
Our middle school desires to offer Yoga to students at lunch as a means of alleviating stress, anxiety, and trauma.
Please consider giving our kids a chance to learn strategies to alleviate such anxiety both now and in the future by giving to this project. The main gym will be used to facilitate Yoga instruction with the yoga "blocks" being used in conjunction with yoga mats that provide comfort as students pose, breathe, and use their bodies.
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