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Moving Beyond the Walls in Los Angeles By PAULA COHEN At CWI's Summer WEST, I met like minded educators who could see beyond the limitations, who thought outside the box, who were willing to ask big questions and delve deep into the answers. It felt like coming home. When we talk about resiliency in young people, feeling like a part of something important and valuable is a crucial piece. Our school has been going through many of the tumultuous transitions that all public schools are going through. read more
What We Love, We Come to Care For By JEFF GROGAN
I use the natural environment behind the school each fall for studies. I see kids inspired, engaged, and often intrigued by what they discover back there. For me, when they discover the richness of the environment, that nurtures a conservation ethic in them because they know what is there and they want to keep it there and help it survive and sustain. What we understand we come to love, and what we love we want to care for.read more
Crossroads in the Heartland By JAMI SPENCER Sometimes, old school is better school. Hands-on, apprenticeship-style learning beats filling in bubbles any day. Passing down wisdom about medicinal herbs and edible weeds will sustain longer than instructions on how to use that new smart phone that is sure to be outdated in a few months. I want to share the importance of sustainability with my students by providing them with place-based service-learning projects that speak for themselves.read more
Vesting Learners, Facilitating Voice By IYAUNNA TOWERY-AJIDUAH, M.Ed. I remember the night before the first day of the Institute I could not sleep. I had gotten this anxious feeling, the feeling that one might get when they knew “something” was about to happen. I really did not know exactly what to expect. Honestly, what could really happen in just a week’s time? Well, I can now say that a lot can happen: inspiration; intensity; purpose; and transformation. read more
Teaching Students to Leave a Legacy By STEVE BUZZELL I learned that Service-Learning is really a teaching strategy that combines academics and social education to meet a community’s needs, and that a truly good project will improve the quality of life for all—both current and future generations. That’s really cool! Teaching the kids to leave a legacy. We can now see how to tie the old abandoned village of Little River State Park into sustainability and it will provide students with a great foundation for the rest of the school year, and beyond! read more
Service-Learning Applied
By DESSA D'AQUILA
There really is something about a beginning. The idea of place was particularly interesting to me because it so perfectly fit into our gardening program. Realizing the need for students to have a place of safety to retreat to, helped me identify the need to define our gardening program as a place of refuge by allowing the students to own it as their own. read more
Making Sustainability and Service-Learning Mesh
in the Classroom By NATALIE LAROSE One way in which my classroom is going to improve the quality of life for all is through a service-learning project that I have designed that aligns with the first history unit I will be delivering, “North Street Then and Now.” Over the course of the unit students will learn about the history of the street on which their school is located, an area with rich cultural diversity and history but also traditionally an economically challenged area of the city. read more
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