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Philadelphia
Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development
3451 Walnut Street, Suite
P-117, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205
215-573-2379 / 215-573-1134
fax
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Program in Systemic School Reform
Senior
Projects Initiative
The School District of Philadelphia is ramping up the quality and
academic rigor associated with the "Senior Project" and PHENND is
trying to match each participating school with a university
partner. These partners will provide project mentors and other
resources to help the schools and students succeed.
Service-Learning Support
Organizations - SLSO
PHENND co-convenes a round table of K-12
service-learning organizations. The group disseminates best
practices, shares lessons learned, and advocates for improvied and
expanded service-learning support at the School District of
Philadelphia. Past accomplishments include: creating a common
definition of service-learning, producing service-learning curriculum
supplements for the new core curriculum, and hosting the Atlantic
Regional Service-Learning Conference (2004).
Ford Foundation Initiative
(2000-2002)
With funding from the Ford Foundation, and in partnership with the
UNiversity of Pennsylvania, PHENND worked to deepen partnerships
between higher eds, their local school partners and community partner
organizations. The project included substantial professional
development (including academic credit) for teachers in order to
implement a community problem solving approach.
For more information about any of these initiatives, please contact
Hillary Aisenstein at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu
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