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Part of my curriculum for each class I teach is leadership. We are one of a handful of schools in the state that participate in “No Child Sleeps on the Floor” project through FFA. We make beds for children in foster homes or children that are just in need. It is an eye opening and humbling experience for our students and it helps others. We’ve built 14 beds over the past three years, they’ve gone to children we know or children we may never know. I enjoy seeing the pride students get when they use their hands to build something, especially something that helps others. There are so many instances in the classroom that I could think of for this topic. When I close my eyes and think about what teaches kids the most, it’s not from a book or word for word from a curriculum. It’s building and providing a basic need for children. Being an agricultural educator is more than just a job to me, it is my passion. Seeing the kids that are viewed as “nonacademic” come in my agricultural mechanics use hands-on activities to apply and combine skills from my classes and traditional academic classes. I teach my students the basics of woodworking, using tools, reading tape measures, and calculating project costs. More importantly, I want them to learn to be better people, kinder people, compassionate people, people with purpose. The mattresses will go to children in need, because what good is a bed without a mattress?

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Part of my curriculum for each class I teach is leadership. We are one of a handful of schools in the state that participate in “No Child Sleeps on the Floor” project through FFA. We make beds for children in foster homes or children that are just in need. It is an eye opening and humbling experience for our students and it helps others. We’ve built 14 beds over the past three years, they’ve gone to children we know or children we may never know. I enjoy seeing the pride students get when they use their hands to build something, especially something that helps others. There are so many instances in the classroom that I could think of for this topic. When I close my eyes and think about what teaches kids the most, it’s not from a book or word for word from a curriculum. It’s building and providing a basic need for children. Being an agricultural educator is more than just a job to me, it is my passion. Seeing the kids that are viewed as “nonacademic” come in my agricultural mechanics use hands-on activities to apply and combine skills from my classes and traditional academic classes. I teach my students the basics of woodworking, using tools, reading tape measures, and calculating project costs. More importantly, I want them to learn to be better people, kinder people, compassionate people, people with purpose. The mattresses will go to children in need, because what good is a bed without a mattress?

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