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WEPIC
REPLICATION PROJECT- Funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
The URI CHESP at Slater Jr. High School focuses on service-learning projects related to the community of Woodlawn, working with the Woodlawn Community Outreach Partnership Center and its Education Committee. It also works the Child Opportunity Zone based at Slater and Cunningham Elementary Schools, which share a campus. Service-learning is developed in the school day as well as after-school and in a school-based summer enrichment program. Key focuses have been on homelessness, AIDS, the environment and community development projects. The RIC CHESP is being mentored by URI. It is working with Mr. Pleasant High School in Providence, RI. RIC trains the majority of teachers and school administrators in Rhode Island and has a strong service-learning program, but had lacked deep ties to the community, especially low income, minority communities such as Manton and Hartford whose students attend Mt. Pleasant. RIC and Mt. Pleasant High School support a high school teaching academy for minority students, which will be a key focus for the introduction of service-learning projects. The partnership works with the parent organization and is developing partnerships with the local communities, which are underdeveloped in terms of their human resources and capacity to effect positive change in the community. The partnership is working with 40 teachers at Mt. Pleasant to strengthen their knowledge and implementation of service-learning. Contact: Gayla
Gazerro
The lead agency for these CHESPs is the United South Broadway Community Development Corporation, which had worked with UNM on the WEPIC Replication Project's DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund grant to develop community schools. Eugene Field Elementary School is the lead school, although the UNM partnership has expanded to several other schools in the area. The focus is on projects that support community development such as a major community garden and reclamation of brownfields; development high quality after-school and summer programs which address literacy skills in particular; as well as school-based projects such as a book store to promote child and family literacy that is developed and managed by the project. UNM students work in the project through the UNM Service Corps, an ed. only award, AmeriCorps program. NMU will provide resources through its school of agriculture, forestry and extension. Contact: Diana
Dorn-Jones Michael
Malahy Morris
The
DU CHESP projects address the needs of Northwest Denver primarily
in the areas of literacy. Through quality in-school and after-school
programs at Horace Mann Neighborhood Center, we seek to promote
math and reading skills, take steps to bridge the digital divide,
and provide job training during evening programs for youth and adult
community residents. The service-learning projects focus on a "learn
and earn" computer program, the use of the Internet as a means
for civic engagement and assisting the school in preparing for the
Colorado standard proficiency tests. C.
David Lisman & Frank Coyne
The UD CHESP focuses on a range of activities at Patterson Kennedy Elementary School that aim to: increase parental involvement, increase use of technology by students and their parents, include special needs students more fully in the school, and provide support for high quality after school programs and enrichment of the school day. UD faculty from teacher education. as well as numerous after disciplines are engaged in the project. Projects also focus on the physical environment. Contact: Joanne
Troha
The Central State University CHESP is linked to teacher education at this historically black, state-supported higher ed., although other disciplines are being encouraged to participate. It is working with Hickorydale Elementary School and local community leaders on issues of the physical environment of the school and surrounding area to assist with students literacy, math and science skills. Contact: Lee
Esprit
Bates CHESP, named KIDS PLUS, is a partnership of Bates College, Longley Elementary School and the Lewiston Multi-Purpose Center to infuse service-learning from K-16 to provide academic enrichment and quality after-school programs as well as meet the needs of the school and parents through a range of programs to enhance parental involvement and develop capacity of the parents to take leadership roles in the school. Contact: Susan
Martin
The LAC CHESP, "Healthy Kids" includes LAC students from Nursing, Occupational Therapy, TEAMS, Natural Sciences and the Social and Behavioral Programs to work with their school and community partners to improve curriculum in the areas of science and health education, infusing it with service-learning opportunities for the students at Lewiston Middle School and Sherwood Heights Elementary School. Contact: Marvin
Druker
The CAU and Morehouse CHESPs work with the schools of the Booker T. Washington/John F. Kennedy feeder cluster that serve the predominately low-income, African-American students on the west side of Atlanta, promoting an integration of K-16 service learning across the feeder system. The target schools currently include Washington High, Kennedy Middle and M. Agnes Jones Elementary. The Community Education Leadership Institute in the School of Education at CAU and the Adams Public Service Institute at Morehouse coordinate training and development of the K-16 service-learning activities. Contact: Claudette
Williams Monty
Whitney
The CCA CHESP represents an exciting collaboration among the Community College of Aurora, FrontRange Earth Force and East Middle School. This year-round partnership focuses on using environmental service learning as the vehicle for developing active citizenship skills and reinforcing the academic skills so critical to these students' success. East Middle School has identified a core of educators committed to developing after-school and summer programs that will use the Earth Force process to guide the youth in the identification of a community concern and the development of a project to address that issue for the long-term. The Community College of Aurora supports this effort through its extensive partnerships in the community, technical assistance, access to the College's facilities, and a Federal Work-Study Community Service student. FrontRange Earth Force will provide training and materials, on-site program support and technical assistance to the educators. The goal of this program is to reengage middle-school youth in their school and community by providing them with meaningful opportunities to address issues they care about. Our assessment strategy will combine the evaluation instruments used by Earth Force with a community-based research approach developed in collaboration with the University of Denver's Community-Based Research Program. Contact: Paula
Bonell
The Regis University CHESP works in partnership with Skinner Middle School and the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Denver, Steele Branch to provide academic and social enrichment to middle school students in the after-school hours. Regis University operated an after-school program at Skinner Middle School, in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club, Steele Branch from 1997-2000. During the 2000-01 school year, Skinner Middle School has moved to take over the main funding and organizational responsibilities. This current school year is a transitional year in which all three partners are working closely to most fully meet the needs of the middle school youth. The efforts are intended to result in year-round programming that focuses on the academic and life skills needed by our middle school youth to be successful citizens. Regis University continues to support these efforts through service learning and Federal Work Study Community Service students. The long-term goal of this collaborative partnership is to empower children to develop the skills and confidence needed to succeed in school and society. Long-term measures of this success for participants would include but are not limited to: graduating from high school, participating in community leadership activities, planning and preparing for post-secondary schooling, and contributing in positive ways to the community. Contact: Mary
Ellen Carroll.
The Kaleidoscope Project of the Monogolia County Schools is the lead agency in the CHESP. They are addressing the need for hands-on science in the schools as well as a more active life-style in a community which has a very high level of obesity, mirroring the fact the West Virginia has the highest rate of obesity in the nation. Project leaders have developed the Learning Trails Collaborative Project to develop a system of trails linking the surrounding community with South Middle School and White Park. The South Middle Schools have an integral role in the design and implementation of the trail. WVU students from Arts and Sciences as well as Teacher Education are participating in the project. Contact: Lynn
Sobolov
The UMN/CIS CHESP works at Harms Elementary School in Southwest Detroit, in a predominately low-income, Spanish-speaking (Mexican and Mexican-American) community. The project addresses needs for increased literacy and language skills for the Harms students as well as the broader community. They are creating "Proyecto Adelante" that addresses the literacy and digital divide through K-16 service-learning projects. They are also addressing the need to train Harms' teachers in quality service-learning pedagogues. They are working closely with Latino Family Service's Nuestro Futuro program on this project and partners council will provide governance for it. Contact: Jose
Melendrez Janet
Ray
Education 224 (Service Learning) is a mandatory core curriculum course for Education Majors at Temple University. It is a course that gives students practical and academic knowledge about the Service Learning requiring them to spend between 20 to 30 hours working in a service-learning placement in the community. During Fall 2000, there were 22 Ed 224 students that were placed in the Philadelphia School District Gratz Cluster Youth Driven Service Learning Center (YDSLC). At the center Temple students were given the opportunity to work directly with HS students to address needs within the surrounding North Philadelphia community. Working with a community mobilizing organization- The Nicetown Tioga Collaborative college students and HS students addressed after-school programming needs, recreation needs, environmental needs, academic and health related issues. Temple faculty contact, Dr. Novella Keith, is reaching out to Education faculty and other disciplines to encourage service-learning participation.
Novella
Keith
The staff at Slippery Rock University have been working with several K-12 schools in Western Pennsylvania that have Youth Driven Service Learning Centers:Quaker Valley, Keystone, Elizabeth Forward , Erie and Ambridge High Schools. Students from Quaker Valley Center have had the opportunity to participate in a training retreat at the Slippery Rock University Community Service-Learning Institute in early Fall. The National Youth Driven Service Learning Center Conference (YDSLCC) was held in Slippery Rock from April 27th to 28th. This conference gave students the opportunity to train each other in various kinds of programming, share experiences and participate in an Oxfam hunger banquet. Also, a National Youth Congress for Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship conference is being planned for June 25th and 28th, 2001.
Alice
E. Kaiser-Drobney Lock Haven University CHES Partnership Lock Haven University will be working with CIU #10 and their schools. They are in the process of working with the IU to interest them in starting a Youth Driven Service Learning Center in one of their schools. University faculty will create a service-learning course or service-learning component of an existing course. Lock Haven University will conduct community-based research projects that will affect public policy while serving existing community needs. Contact: Anne-Marie
Turnage
Mercer University supports partnerships between several middle and elementary schools, community organizations, local churches and the staff of the Mercer Community Outreach Partnership Center and the faculty of the School of Education. They have also enlisted faculty from a range of disciplines: biology, engineering and other to work with them. The service-learning projects include after-school programs at multiple sites coordinated by a local community of faith in which high school student provide the programming for the elementary school students. With the dean of School of Education and other faculty are working to further incorporate service-learning in K-8 curricula in these Macon, Georgia schools. Contact: Peter
Brown
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