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.
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One of our favorite projects has been pinch pots that the students made with air dry clay. We painted and sprayed them with gloss and they looked like sparkling candy all lined up and ready to take home. The children were ecstatic. Unfortunately, as with all air dry clay, they are very fragile and all eventually crumble. The permanence that the students crave and are so often denied is once again gone.
I recently obtained a kiln for our school. After a year and a half long process of safety precautions and logistics, it is hooked up and ready to go. What we are missing are kiln shelves, which will allow us to properly stack the kiln in the most efficient way possible. This is a one time purchase which will enable us to have a ceramics program for years and years to come.
Students will be able to use real clay which can be fired in our kiln. The projects will then be very sturdy... even weather proof and dishwasher safe! I still have my own ceramic pieces that I made when I was four, so I know that this is art that they can keep with them forever. With the struggles that these children go through every single day, I want so badly for them to have something substantial to hold, something to give them a sense of accomplishment and pride.
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One of our favorite projects has been pinch pots that the students made with air dry clay. We painted and sprayed them with gloss and they looked like sparkling candy all lined up and ready to take home. The children were ecstatic. Unfortunately, as with all air dry clay, they are very fragile and all eventually crumble. The permanence that the students crave and are so often denied is once again gone.
I recently obtained a kiln for our school. After a year and a half long process of safety precautions and logistics, it is hooked up and ready to go. What we are missing are kiln shelves, which will allow us to properly stack the kiln in the most efficient way possible. This is a one time purchase which will enable us to have a ceramics program for years and years to come.
Students will be able to use real clay which can be fired in our kiln. The projects will then be very sturdy... even weather proof and dishwasher safe! I still have my own ceramic pieces that I made when I was four, so I know that this is art that they can keep with them forever. With the struggles that these children go through every single day, I want so badly for them to have something substantial to hold, something to give them a sense of accomplishment and pride.