Knitting for Life Long Learning - Students Can't Enough!
My students need a selection of yarn, fun fur, needles, and crochet hooks.
$492 goal
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I teach at a high school in San Jose, CA. Our school takes students who are removed from other high schools for a variety of reasons including truancy, incarceration, pregnancy, and students with small children (we have a Family Learning Center where student moms and dads learn parenting skills).
At our school we meet students where they are at and attempt to help them become life-long learners. Several of my students have informed me that our school was the first that had proposed college as an option for them.
I teach a course called Special Projects where seniors can earn credits in subject areas varying from Algebra to World History that they need to graduate. Since our campus is small, serving 365 students, our staff and facilities cannot offer many choices for electives. In my Special Projects class, I ask students to complete projects, make artwork, learn new skills and crafts, etc., that they have an interest in learning.
Over the years many students have enjoyed learning how to knit. Students who have graduated and gone on to college have returned to tell me how much learning the skill of knitting has taught them patience, perseverance, and a sense of accomplishment; thus preparing them for the challenges awaiting them in college. Knitting is a great project for these students because they learn how to plan a project and take pride in completing something they made with their own hands. It is also a skill they will pass on to friends, relatives, their children, and others.
I officially work with approximately 60 students, but I turn no one away after school, so I interact with and design projects for about 100 students. I offer these alternatives to my students for art and electives because I know that students become life-long learners from having positive learning experiences where they can design, create, and learn new skills that they will continue to enjoy throughout their lives and hopefully pass onto their families.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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