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Room to Learn: Trailer Bash

One woman's passion leads to a creative haven for these students.

by Edutopia Staff

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SLIDE SHOW: Trailer Bash


Photographed by Noah Webb

How does Betty Lee, an artist on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, choose to spend much of her spare time?

Surrounded by middle schoolers in a dilapidated trailer parked in the Watts district of Los Angeles.

This is where she flourishes, and where, at the end of thirty weeks, her students premiere a five-minute animated film.

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This article was also published in the Jul 2007: School to Career issue of Edutopia magazine .

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