Trailblazer Rosemary Hanley
1:33
Grades: 3 - 8
Video Description: Meet Rosemary Hanley, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Little Bit Foundation and a trailblazer for student learning. Founded in 2001, the Little Bit Foundation now serves more than 11-thousand students in 38 St. Louis area schools every week. In every school that they serve, there’s a Little Bit space they call “The Boutique”. And in that Boutique, there’s emergency items – coats, underwear, socks, hygiene items – anything that may come up as an emergency so that child can stay in school that day.
Type of Video: Profile*
Unique Video ID: Character-94**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Have students research community service organizations in your community and create short video stories about the trailblazing work they are doing to help people. Consider publishing student videos on the school district website or in another forum of your choice.
*Profile videos use a first-person/first-hand approach to highlight interesting people doing interesting things in the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
