Fall Forum 2010, Demanding Education That Matters: Service-Learning Strand

Register for Fall Forum: http://www.regonline.com/fall_forum_2010 

Recasting the Senior Year: Models for Rigor, Relevance, and Engagement
The presenters, former directors of senior guidance at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, and authors of “Making Grade 12 Meaningful,” share four dynamic programs for engaging seniors. These models embrace the themes of transition, leadership, self-advocacy, and service-learning. Participants will identify and address important transition issues, learn how to design a Senior Institute, encourage project-based and student-directed learning, implement a year-long service project, and foster powerful mentoring relationships that can positively affect the entire school culture.
New Trier High School | Janice Dreis, Larry Rehage | Workshop
Friday, Nov. 12, 8:00-9:45am

Students Taking Action: Educating for Positive and Respectful Participation
Human Rights Education and Peace Education bring greater dignity to people's lives. Service-learning incorporates these values into formal curriculum. A meaningful model of service-learning requires more than "community service hours" to inspire students to take action in their communities, understand them, and question them. This workshop will examine the potential of service-learning in school, create new ideas, and connect peace education with personal development.
Youth Spirit Foundation | Amy Argenal, Theodore Timpson | Workshop
Friday, Nov. 12, 3:45pm-5:30pm

Unpacking Privilege: Cultural Competency in Service-Learning
Service-learning’s best intentions can be derailed if schools ignore cultural blind spots. In fact, badly implemented service-learning can be culturally destructive and reinforce negative stereotypes. Join a conversation to explore the Cultural Proficiency Continuum for Service-Learning and develop cultural competency indicators inline with the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice to help promote culturally proficient program design that helps close gaps in our educational and social systems.
Alameda County Office of Education | Alex Chung, Nathan Ivy | Workshop
Saturday, Nov. 13, 8:00-9:45am

Service-Learning, Youth Empowerment and Sustainable Community Development
Our School at Blair Grocery is an independent community school for at-risk students aged 13-19 in New Orleans Lower 9th Ward that is creating a resource-rich safe space for youth empowerment and sustainable community development. Learn how we are successfully transforming the relationship between school and community. Participants will explore successful strategies for empowering youth through service-learning to engage in reflective practice with others that actualizes meaningful, effective, and replicable local solutions to global challenges. Develop the strategies, tools, and agency to engage your students in learning experiences that provide the opportunity for them to "be the change they want to see in the world."
CES-NOLA / Our School at Blair Grocery | Kyle Meador, Nat Turner | Workshop
Saturday, Nov. 13, 10:15am-12:00pm

Register for Fall Forum: http://www.regonline.com/fall_forum_2010