For nearly as long as she can remember, CofC Honors junior Kathryn Templeton has wanted to be a teacher. She loves working with children, and admits she could spend hours on Pinterest clicking through endless examples of lesson plans aimed at getting kids excited about learning.
Even before her freshman year as an education major in the College’s Department of Teacher Education, Templeton was already putting her passion for education into action. In 2011, during her sophomore year at Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, South Carolina, Templeton, along with a friend, started a non-profit organization with the goal of collecting used school supplies for elementary schools with a high percentage of students receiving free or reduced price lunch.
The impetus for the project was simple. Looking around her house one day, Templeton realized she and her brother were flooded with old school supplies – books, art supplies and more – that they didn’t need. They looked for some place to donate them, but found that most places only accepted new items.
“We had a ton of kid scissors,” Templeton recalls. “What were we going to do with them?”
And so K4Kids was born. The organization’s motto is simple: Pass it, not trash it.
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