If you look at the lower schools courtyard today you will see rainbow wind chimes, a rainbow fire pit and just behind all that a rainbow thats a play on the modern pride flag painted on the window (pictured below).
The modern pride flag was designed by Daniel Quasar in June 2018. And incorporates elements from the Philadelphia flag and the trans pride flag in order to shift the focus to inclusion and progress within the community. Due to the flags focus on inclusion it instantly went viral.
The theme of inclusion lined right up with Kindergarten as that was what they had been studying all year. During this year alone they have learned about Black Lives Matter, read a book on Harvey Milk (the first openly gay politician), and have done work around pronouns. In fact the theme of their garden is all are welcome!
So when Mrs. Oliveri and I offered to help them make this flag they immediately said yes. Even with this immediate yes there were multiple iterations of the flag design on the window and lots of deliberation about what the design was going to be made of. Some of the original designs where simply just the new pride flag painted across the window, and others more complicated, like a design plan we created were all the colors formed one big triangle. The material for the design also changed. Here are a couple of our early idea was to use a circuit to cut out vinyl, or to use acrylics to paint.
Eventually we settled on the design below and used posca markers (chalk markers) as well as large crayons:
The design also required a large compass in order to create the curve of the rainbow and two rulers taped together to create the right angle of the triangles outline and internal lines. The crayons were used to create guidelines for the children while the chalk markers were used by the children to fill in the space between the lines.
Overall this experience taught me better ways to explain the LGBT+ community to children. and taught me what material work on glass.
And heres how my entrepreneurship slices like now (the big check is the area of impact) :
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