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Classroom Close-up- Beads 'n Me

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the focus on how educators are providing real-world opportunities that will sustain and enrich the lives of young people our next stop Franklin Avenue Middle your Beats are big business six. Is magical because it start could be the kids come back in from lunch and we look at our order ballif we play music in the background and we go to work and we've go to work together and it's a time for that did just feel good and make something everybody says success it's not there taking a test at the end they're not studying for anything it's just a time to be and a time to be inventive the doctor running out of their classroom Avenue Middle School for almost 10 years back in 2007 I was looking for creative ways to teach my students in the art room and I symbol Pond beaded idea I'm like oh my gosh this would be great and I thought the yard teacher would do with the students but then I saw all the learning that would be involved in it and then decided to do it within the class Noreen you're going to come and work on the ABC lanyard the fam subline you're back here betta made obvious Lee teaches Reading Writing following die oceans money financial literacy profit-loss Revenue we also learn Democratic principles giving back to charity chosen by the students so all those skills that may not be meaningful for them in the textbook become meaningful this is where the person's name that they ordered the style that they want the order has certain things do you have to put in a hoop what color what's the name of the design to the person pay where do we mail it to sometimes we have the lanyard already made up how many go I like that I want that but instead of using silver beads can I have black beats so that children have to problem solve get the black beats and then they need to get all the materials for their task they then come back to their desk and work on the task sometimes together and sometimes independently at the end they come to the finishing station where they have to measure it out make sure it's 17in make sure the pattern is the same on both sides make sure the beads are of good quality and at the very end then they presented to me and the only thing I put on is the Magna closure at the end customers where the teachers and staff who had a real need for the product my file and then our subs also have beads and me lanyards where they're labeled as spam sub so they're easily recognizable so then it just took off from their people and talked offices and I'm people working hospitals or people would just wear ideas for their jobs delete bookmarks charm bracelets in these bracelets this really is a business so we sell the product all over we set up at the Franklin Lakes Town Fair so the kids are able to sell to we haven't ever met and we sell to the kids within the building of course the teachers as well within the district also buy but mostly we sell to people we've never met can you create it 12-12 designs just of his very own my son was interested in making stuff like this he never was and it's great for social skills it's great for his self-esteem so there's a lot of different things that this turn teachers for one former student named Teddy feeds me became a calling my son she inspired him artistically we didn't realize he had this wonderful talent and it's led to so many other things every Saturday he takes class is that fit in New York City jewelry making classes and this summer he spent a week at the Savannah College of Art and Design Teddy's passion for jewelry making grown into an online business where he sells his artistic Creations he found something Pryor's first beads in the students had returned to share with the experience meant to them I'm a college student at Bergen Community College and be the main was real keep to just learn about fundamentals of setting up business goals and this right here really got me to the next level to whatever I was going to do Pizza me taught me how to be more independent just following my own Rhythm than my own style even though we were all working on one thing you are due individually but as a whole definitely look back to this experience and I'm thankful for it because now I'm able to interact with people and I know how like this works during 10 years of helping students and raising money for charity beads and me has received plenty of awards and recognition but for prior the real profits are measured in outcomes fast recognition is what I see each and every day for my students the smiles on their faces been working as a team being proud of the product that they just developed and made narrow on it coming up with their own Creations when they come back and visit and I hear those amazing story those are the real awards for me

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