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Global Citizenship: An Instructor’s Experience and Student Response
By ERIC LASSAHN Eric Lassahn serves as the Director of Residence Life & the Center for Civic Engagement at Susquehanna University. In addition he is an adjunct faculty member and program director for Global Opportunities programs. Introduction As a Ph.D. … Continue reading
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“If It’s In Your Mission…”
Tonya Williams, principal of urban Githens Middle School in Durham, North Carolina shares her experience collaborating with the incredibly diverse group of K-16 educators at CWI’s Summer Institute. She discusses her personal journey at the Institute, from self described “neophyte” … Continue reading
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Practice Makes Perfect: Student Experience Matters Most
By ERIN LYNN RAAB, Ph.D. Student experience, not outcomes, matter most for school design There is a huge push around the country to define the student outcomes we want schools to achieve. Pretty consistently, these have become an array of “graduate … Continue reading
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“It’s Important as a Faculty That We Really Believe In This”
Scott Fischer, Service-Learning Director at Park Tudor School in Indiana thinks that Service-Learning is crucial to bringing education to life. He also thinks its hugely important to show our students that as a faculty we really believe in this through … Continue reading
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A Teacher’s Passion to Create Authentic STEM Learning Projects
By BOB JAKUS This is a brief account of how & why I developed “Beyond the Classroom Aquarium,” a yearlong project based, curricular sequence of authentic STEM-Oriented and aquatic ecosystem themed learning activities (for students to love). Beyond the Classroom … Continue reading
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An Educator Challenging the Status Quo
Tonia S. Lloyd is an educator and psychologist working with Newark’s Public Schools. She’s a strong believer in the power of service-learning to engage students in their community. She shares her experience working with like minded educators at the Institute. … Continue reading
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Tagged bullying, community engagement, community works institute, curriculum, curriculum development, early childhood, early childhood education, empathy, environmental education, Food Justice, higher education, hunger, John Dewey, mindfulness, place based education, project based learning, school gardens, service learning, social justice, summer institute, sustainability, teaching
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A Community Garden Grows in Long Beach: A Teacher’s Students Persevere
By JOE BROOKS —CWI Education Director CWI alum Alexandra Gonzales is truly a talented and visionary STEM teacher at Saint Athanasius School in Long Beach, CA. Alex worked hard on a dream project when she joined us at CWI’s Summer … Continue reading
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Tagged christian schools, community engagement, community works institute, curriculum, curriculum development, early childhood education, empathy, environmental education, joe brooks, mindfulness, Nature Deficit, place based education, professional development, project based learning, school gardens, small schools, social justice, sustainability, teaching
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The Forgotten Human Right
By RICHARD LOUV Do children — do all of us — have a right to meaningful connection to the natural world? Annelies Henstra, a Dutch human rights attorney, thinks so. She calls it the “forgotten human right.” In the March 2009 issue of Orion … Continue reading
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Speaking to a Teacher’s Heart and Soul
We glimpse a teacher’s heart and we learn what it means to teach. Lisa and a team of her colleagues spent a week at CWI’s Summer Institute on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability working on their school’s curriculum design for … Continue reading
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Faith Based Schools are Excited About Service-Learning
From academic outcomes to ethics and faith, Megan Blalock, Director of Student Services at Nashville’s Christ Presbyterian Academy talks about why high quality Service-Learning is crucial for her students and her school. learn more at: http://www.cwinstitute.net MORE from COMMUNITY WORKS JOURNAL … Continue reading
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