Kids Teaching Kids is an important project idea that is making an impact in schools across the country.
Tom Callos shared the idea of kids teaching kids using banners as a simple prop to help them focus their presentation. Gary (and several instructors from The100) then took action and created several presentations for kids to use.
“Kids Teaching Kids is Vital. We can talk to these kids until we’re blue in the face really, but when they hear it from another student, who has recently, or is going through exactly what they’re going through, they relate better. They’re engaged more because they’re seeing older students, which is exciting anyway, it’s someone new, someone they can better relate too. When we’re talking about this really important issue [bullying] coming at it from every angle is what we need to do as educators.” – Samantha Tower, Elementary Guidance Counselor, MHLT Elementary in Minocqua, WI.
This site may look familiar. It is a seperate wordpress site, however it’s hosted on GaryEngels.com. It’s setup to take orders using 1shoppingcart.com as the payment processor. It has become an easy way to display various banner projects and helps other schools make the decision to get started with the project. As you’ll notice, this website and garyengels.com are similar but different. We can do some custom changes to the site to help set you apart from the rest.
If you’d like Gary to create a site like this one for you, just contact him at garyengels@gmail.com for a quote and to discuss the details of what you’d like your site to accomplish.