Adult Ed Week 2015: Story Quilts

For Adult Education Week 2015, some of the lower level ESL classes - in both morning and evening - made Story Quilts.  Each student told their story in pictures and words on a piece of paper.  Then they patched or sewed the pieces together into class quilts.

The Story Quilts are like our classes, school, and community.  Every person has a story.  Every story matters because every person matters.  Together our stories combine to form bigger stories:  The story of San Mateo Adult School.  The story of Adult Education.  The story of Community.



Teacher David's students hold up
a story quilt from Teacher Mary Weng's class

Teacher Betty with her students
and their beautiful class story quilt.

Together our stories tell the big story of Adult Education.



Every student, every class, every community has a story. 
What's yours?



How do you measure progress?
Success for the individual.  Success for the community.



Every quilt - just like every person and every class - has its own style.



Everyone was interested to see and read the stories in the quilts.



Students stand together with Mr. T.
"Stand together" is also an idiom that means be a community.




Teacher Shirley and students smile with pride.





Teacher Vasyl and students study the stories.



Each story quilt had a special style.
This quilt had a special place, too - on one of the Crepe Myrtle trees.