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Learn & Serve Kansas School Based Programs |
Shelby Hoytal 120 SE 10th Avenue Topeka, KS 66612
Phone:
785/368-6207 |
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Learn & Serve Kansas School Based Programs |
Shelby Hoytal 120 SE 10th Avenue Topeka, KS 66612
Phone:
785/368-6207 |
Burlington
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The mission of the Bobcat Learn and Serve Project is to provide a positive after-school and year-round environment which would afford opportunities in service learning for students of Coffey County. The goals of the project are: 1) to initiate a five step problem-solving method centered around service learning; 2) to make a positive impact on studentsí knowledge, attitudes and skills in the areas of history and civic; 3) to develop teamwork and leadership skills necessary to carry out the goals of each project; and 4) to make volunteerism a lifelong commitment in the community. |
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Flint Hills Special Education Cooperative
Mike McDougald |
Goals of the Toy Shoppe community service learning program are 1) to provide opportunities for students to participate in community service activities which include collecting, refinishing and distributing toys and bicycles to needy children and families in the FHSEC area; and 2) Student volunteers will demonstrate improvement in their academic, social and problem-solving skills. The Toy Shoppe involves approximately 50 students with disabilities (moderate to severe) who contribute their time and skills. |
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Geary County
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Junction City High School proposes support for staff to assist the seventh year of the implementation of a district service learning graduation requirement. The service learning requirement is based upon a district exit outcome calling for each student to demonstrate involvement in the community as a responsible and productive citizen. The special outcomes resulting from this proposal include: |
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J.C. Harmon
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J.C. Harmonís service learning program will involve 240 high school students working with six elementary schools, community service agencies, senior citizen facilities, ESL parents, small businesses in the community and a transition facility for special needs adults. Participants will conduct needs assessments at the sites, design programs to fill needs and spend time evaluating progress throughout the year. Our goals include (1) improving reading skills in elementary students (2) recruitment of high school students into teaching (3) building positive school to community relations (4) improved transition of special needs adults to employment and independent living and (5) improving school to work transitions via service learning as a career exploration and work place skills builder. |
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Manhattan High School USD 383
Annie
Haefke |
The Interpersonal Skills Class is an innovative, elective social skills class for twenty high school students in special and regular education. This non-traditional class is designed to meet the developmental and social needs of students with disabilities. The Interpersonal Skills Class trains students in regular education to be mentors to students with special needs and leaders in their community. Through service learning, students embrace the opportunity to make positive contributions to the community while developing essential social skills that are generalized outside the classroom. |
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Northeast Kansas Education Service Center USD 608
Denise Selbee-Koch |
Through this service learning partnership all students will be involved in strengthening their intellectual development, academic learning, and personal and social skills while involved in designing and establishing a 190-acre outdoor environmental education classroom at Lake Perry that is handicapped-accessible. The overarching goal of the partnership is to educate children, youth, and adults about the protection and enhancement of wildlife populations in Kansas through habitat improvement, land management, education, and public awareness. This outdoor environmental education classroom will be the first of its kind in Kansas to be designed and developed by high school students, especially those that are labeled ìat-riskî. |
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Olathe USD 233
Carolyn
Fitzsimmons |
The goal of the Olathe Learn and Serve project is to empower effective participatory students in this democratic republic so that each may understand, exercise, preserve and promote the blessing of liberty and the responsibility of freedom. In order to meet this goal, the objectives are to: 1) recruit, screen, train and support 65 high school and junior high youth as high quality service learners; 2) match youth participants with 40 Title I acquirers of service students attending a 21st Century Community Learning Center, improving academic performance through tutoring and mentoring relationships; and 3) develop and pilot adaptive service learning curricula for 15 mentally challenged/mentally retarded junior high students to include service to local homeless residents, incorporating family volunteer experiences as well. |
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Spring Hill USD 230
Lynda
Jochims |
The purpose of the program is to create and foster a greater sense of civic responsibility through student volunteerism. It aims to develop the individual by increasing their level of commitment to themselves and their community and to help the less fortunate and/or people needing assistance via personal volunteering. The Spring Hill High School Helping Hands Service Learning Program will include approximately 20 juniors and seniors with the goal of including the entire school as a base for interpersonal skills and passing these new skills to other students through the presentation of what they have learned. The community will be rewarded by having better young citizens as leaders in altruism and will also share in a cleaner, safer and better city. |
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Valley Center USD 262
Mary
Becker |
Valley Center USD 262 seeks the opportunity to continue endeavors to promote a higher level of leadership initiative through formal, structured programming in the PALs (Peer Assistance and Leadership) program. The goal of PALs is to model the power and worth of community involvement, partnerships, achievement, and character. The objective is to provide and promote youth-driven, service learning opportunities throughout all demographic groups of the community. The six-year-old PALs outreach team is comprised of about 50 high school juniors and seniors that impact approximately 750 students within the district focusing on nearly 250 identified as ìat-riskî for various anti-social behavior. |
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Valley Heights USD 498
Katie McClellan |
Valley Heights USD 498 established the Kansas Beacon Learn and Serve project to create and manage a youth community service mentoring program that matches high school student mentor volunteers with each of the 37 most needy youth identified by the community planning committee. The Kansas Beacon project supplements and enhances existing adult mentoring programs (i.e. the Rotary Club menís program) and provides both in-school and after-school mentoring and academic assistance to the communityís most needy youth. |
