Live It Learn It
WISH LIST: $100: sponsors 1 student for 1 year (3 trips); $1,000: funds 2 trips for 1 class; $10,000: sponsors programming for a whole school for an entire year.
They have traveled down the Potomac in a historic fishing boat to study pollution; recited a Frederick Douglass speech from the steps of his former home in Anacostia; and studied early American architecture at the National Building Museum. Live It Learn It inspires academic achievement and ignites potential in students through first-hand exposure to DC’s historical, cultural, and natural resources. It was born out of founder Matthew Wheelock’s experience as a teacher in one of DC’s lowest-performing schools where student potential was undermined by inadequate exposure to the world around them, limited connection to academic material, and little sense of why education mattered. The idea was to supplement classroom instruction with vital experiential learning, and LILI now brings its programs to students across the District. Teachers can focus on the basics while LILI assumes responsibility for creating and implementing its hands-on programs and supplementing them with lessons and Brain Builder booklets tailored to the curriculum. LILI makes history, science, and culture come alive for 1,000 children. Isn’t that something you can support?
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