Room to Learn: Trailer Bash
One woman's passion leads to a creative haven for these students.
by Edutopia Staff
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.
This article was also published in the July 2007 issue of Edutopia magazine .
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