Supported By Community

 I think the title of this one ends up being pretty self-explanatory with what I am going to discuss. Every Ag Teacher knows that community support is one of the biggest things that you need to have a successful agricultural program. Without your community, you will not have the student interest and the pushes for funding that you need to have a program. 

I am going to take this one step forward. This week, I spent some time reaching out to the community via social media and by talking to my students and seeing who had what contacts in the community. You see, it was time that I needed more than just support from the community. I needed supplies.

Next week, we will be getting into some hands on work in my landscaping class, practicing some hardscaping and learning new skills. For these activities though, I needed pavers and bricks. Reaching out on Facebook, I was able to acquire about 200 bricks that I will be using for the students to construct straight walls out of. Not many people are going into the bricklayer field anymore and it is an important skill that I think students should know, even if they only ever use the skill to build a fire pit in their backyard. So I got my truck out of the garage where it had been sitting all winter and when and loaded up 175 muddy bricks from a hillside on a community members farm.




The other thing that I needed was some pavers, this one ended up being pretty hard and I truly did not know where I was going to get any from. I am planning on students laying pavers on Monday, it is the Friday before and I finally found a connection after 2 weeks of trying. Obviously I spazzed out about finally finding some pavers and jumped in my truck after school and went after them. This was a jackpot! I had a student's father have 1,400 pavers just laying on a pallet on their property. I really truly only needed about 200 for all the more that I was going to be having my students do so I once again loaded the truck and drove those over to the school. 



What I really am taking away this week is the amount of resources that you can find in your community if you are willing to take the time to look for them.

My highlight for this week is having my landscaping class putting some hands on work in now too! We spent time in the shop today learning how to build our base and screed sand for our paver installation on Monday.

That all folks!

-Dylan

Comments

  1. Daniel FosterMarch 6, 2022 at 5:33 PM

    Love this!

    Imagine using those supplies + student learning labor + caring instructor to build something cool for the community

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