Our SOME portrait project: how and why we do service learning
Some of the beautiful portraits our students created (and delivered) to SOME seniors! Service Learning In 5th grade we do a service learning experience that aims to honor what is developmentally appropriate for 5th graders and prioritize maintaining the utmost dignity of the others. Service Learning is such a complicated realm, as we work to ensure that we don't "otherize" or create complicated (and potentially problematic) narratives about what 'help' is and who helps whom. Our SOME (So Others Might Eat) project is one of our favorite service learning experiences, because we think it does work towards our ideals of what service learning should look like: meaningful to all, authentic, and a learning experience! The Process! Our project starts when 5th grade goes to study portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery - learning about how portraits are about more than just a face, but the