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• Go to the Source: More about the Schools and Other Organizations Featured in this Issue Schools The Center for Technical Education 122 Granite Street Leominster, Massachusetts 01453 phone: 978/534-7735 www.leominster.mec.edu/cte.htm Central Park East Secondary... April 03, 2008
• Where to Go for More: On Community-Based Learning The Giraffe Heroes Project “Giraffe Heroes are people who stick their necks out for the common good,” says the Giraffe Heroes Project website, meaning that people whom the project designates... April 03, 2008
• Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son by Kevin Jennings (Beacon Press, 288 pages, $24.95) Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son gives us a glimpse of the familiar worlds of family and school told from a... April 03, 2008 by Daryl Lynn Johnson
• Notes on This Issue On evenings and weekends, I’m often immersed in my own service-learning projects. I’m part of the PTO of my son’s elementary school. I’m active in a group working for improved... April 02, 2008 by Jill Davidson - Community Collaboration, Service-Learning
• Spotlights on Community-Based Learning: The Center for Technical Education and Wildwood School By most measures, the Center for Technical Education in Leominster, Massachusetts and the Wildwood Secondary School in Los Angeles seem to be vastly different sorts of schools: public, East coast,... April 03, 2008 by Jill Davidson - Community Collaboration
• Doing Something Real: Horace interviews with Debbie Meier on Community Service Deborah Meier began her teaching career as a kindergarten and Head Start teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City. She was the founder and teacher-director of a network of highly successful... April 02, 2008 - Community Collaboration
• The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker by Mike Rose (Penguin, 288 pages, $15.00) In The Mind at Work, Mike Rose examines the connection between the body and the mind... April 03, 2008 by Jill Davidson
• "Learning Through Interests": Lessons from the Met Kristin Waugh-Hempel has been working at The Metropolitan Regional Career & Technical Center (the Met) since 1998. After serving as an advisor for four years, she focused her energy on the... April 03, 2008 by Kristen Waugh Hempel - Community Collaboration
• Eagle Rock School: An Ethic of Service Eagle Rock School, located in Estes Park, Colorado, is two schools in one: a school for high school age students and a professional development center for adults, particularly educators. Year-round,... April 03, 2008 by John Guffey - Community Collaboration
• The Power of Service-Learning: One School’s Quest I had no idea when I started this experience how much real learning I would actually do. So much of the understanding of something is not found in a book or classroom experience. It was only when I... April 02, 2008 by Kim Huseman, Lawrence Kohn - Community Collaboration, Service-Learning