Tying Up Loose Ends

Day 30: On Which I Pivot Into the Woods

This year’s fundraising Gala theme for my school is “Into the Woods.” My fearless colleague has worked her magic with a group of students who designed, cut, and laid out a quilt to be auctioned off. This is powerful pedagogy, having students collaborate, learn design techniques, work with fine motor skills, and feel the satisfaction of a job well done.

They’ve begun appliqueing, but the process is taking longer than we expected, so for tonight’s project, I brought the quilt home so I could catch up on some of the needlework. Here are some elements of the quilt—the final reveal will be the night of the Gala.

This too is resistance—to apathy, to indifference, to control—to enable children to create a thing of beauty, something they can take pride in, a way that they can give back to this community that has given them (and us, their teachers) so very much.

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