Connect with Educators Who Share Your
Passion for the Work!
at CWI's 2012 Summer
Institutes for
Educators
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CWI's
Summer WEST
Institute on
Service-Learning
July
30th - August 3rd, 2012
Los Angeles,
California
at Loyola Marymount University
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CWI's
Summer EAST
Institute on
Service-Learning
July
16th - 20th, 2012
Shelburne, Vermont
in partnership with
Shelburne Farms
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"CWI's Institute has helped me refine and
strengthen my teaching skills. A wonderful experience!"
Margot Glenos,
Teacher
East Park School
District
Moss Point,
Mississippi
"I felt reaffirmed...Thank you for a stimulating, thoughtful, and
useful week. I learned a lot, met wonderful people, and had time to think
and plan. I was inspired!"
Chris Tananone
Global
Issues/Service Coordinator
International School
of Bangkok
more alumni comments
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
K-16 teachers, community based educators,
administrators, and program trainers and leaders. CWI Institutes are
appropriate for beginner to veteran practitioners.
As an Institute
Participant
you will...
* Identify academic connections between service-learning and essential
knowledge.
* Find practical ways to encourage student voice in the learning process.
* Develop a deeper understanding of the role and practice of reflection.
* Learn strategies to develop authentic community partnerships
* Reinvigorate your practice and commitment to education.
* Find practical ways to engage students in compelling community based
work.
* Become part of CWi's network of passionate educators.
“I can't over state the importance of this event to my vision and
enthusiasm for taking Community Arts Service-Learning, way beyond its
current status on campus….”
Julie Metzler,
Director
Kansas City Art
Institute
Kansas City,
Missouri
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Inspired Educators
Speak the Work: Reflections from the Field
Below are excerpts from an ongoing series of
insightful reflective essays published recently by Community Works Journal.
These essays share themes of hope,
professional practice,
and student potential.
Together they help to weave a map to a distinctively bright future for
education.
These essays were written by veteran K-16 and community educators who
generously share the ways that they've found to engage both their students
and themselves in important academic
work connected to their local community. We thank each of them
for sharing their thoughts and experiences. Additional educator-written
essays and curriculum exemplars can be found on CWI's web site at: www.communityworksinstitute.org
What We Love, We Come to Care For
By JEFF GROGAN, Stowe Middle School
I use the natural environment behind the school each fall for studies. I
see kids inspired, engaged, and often intrigued by what they discover back
there. For me, when they discover the richness of the environment, that
nurtures a conservation ethic in them because they know what is there and
they want to keep it there and help it survive and sustain. What we
understand we come to love, and what we love we want to care for. read more
Moving Beyond the Walls in Los Angeles
By PAULA COHEN, Los Angeles Unified SD
At CWI's Summer WEST, I met like minded educators who could see beyond the
limitations, who thought outside the box, who were willing to ask big
questions and delve deep into the answers. It felt like coming home. When
we talk about resiliency in young people, feeling like a part of something
important and valuable is a crucial piece. Our school has been going through
many of the tumultuous transitions that all public schools are going
through. read more
The Soul of a Teacher
By CYNTHIA HUGHES, Springfield School
District
It’s our job to help kids learn to read and to write, to learn math and
spelling conventions, to give them ways to discover their thinking and to
find the best home for their unique talents and abilities. Somewhere in all
of that lies the soul—the part of each of us that can’t be measured with a
rubric, scale or test score. The unique experience of each person’s
interactions with each other, each thing, each learning opportunity, each
conversation, each perception, we simply cannot know that by testing it. We
need to take the time to listen for it, and to allow and encourage it to be
expressed. read more
Swimming Upstream Against the Current: Changing
the School
Improvement Paradigm
By DAVID SOBEL, Antioch University
This story captures one of those ineffable aspects of what makes a good
teacher and school leader, and what leads to constructive school change.
The leader genuinely respects each child and knows that each parent and
family can contribute to enhancing the learning environment of the school.
The school leader reaches out to find community partners, connects parents
with social services, creates opportunities for parents and teachers to
learn together. read more
Vesting Learners, Facilitating Voice
By IYAUNNA TOWERY-AJIDUAH, M.Ed., ESP
Project Los Angeles
I remember the night before the first day of the Institute I could not
sleep. I had gotten this anxious feeling, the feeling that one might get
when they knew “something” was about to happen. I really did not know
exactly what to expect. Honestly, what could really happen in just a week’s
time? Well, I can now say that a lot can happen: inspiration; intensity;
purpose; and transformation. read more
Teaching Students to Leave a Legacy
By STEVE BUZZELL, Stowe Middle School
I learned that Service-Learning is really a teaching strategy that combines
academics and social education to meet a community’s needs, and that a
truly good project will improve the quality of life for all—both current
and future generations. That’s really cool! Teaching the kids to leave a
legacy. We can now see how to tie the old abandoned village of Little River
State Park into sustainability and it will provide students with a great
foundation for the rest of the school year, and beyond! read more
Digging a Hole: Clinical Teaching and the Journey
of Learning
By STUART GRAUER, Founder of The Coalition
for Small Preparatory Schools
As educators and students, what gets us ready to commit to an endeavor, to
a class or study, to a purpose, rather than grazing half-heartedly through
another class? What makes us tap in to something larger? What causes
us to cast off our timid shadows and engage fully in life and the largest
purposes we can find for it? At some point, we believe that probably all
the best lessons really are journeys; we hope our students can somehow
experience new worlds and that a great lesson is like an expedition. read more
The Grief Outreach Initiative: University
Students Help Grieving
Children in the
Community
By TRICIA MCCLAM and MARY ALICE VARGA,
University of Tennessee
She told him that her mother had died on Valentine’s Day. She still wanted
to read the book, but Dean Rider could not forget the memory and how the
child’s grief affected her—she was held back in school because she could
not adjust socially and academically. “Right then and there, sitting
outside Mrs. McCoy’s room at the school on a carpeted staircase, I was lost
for words,” said Rider. read more
Making Sustainability and Service-Learning
Mesh in the Classroom
By NATALIE LAROSE, Sustainability Academy,
Vermont
One way in which my classroom is going to improve the quality of life for
all is through a service-learning project that I have designed that aligns
with the first history unit I will be delivering, “North Street Then and
Now.” Over the course of the unit students will learn about the history of
the street on which their school is located, an area with rich cultural
diversity and history but also traditionally an economically challenged
area of the city. read more
 Connect
with Educators Who Share Your Passion for the Work!
at CWI's 2012 Summer Institutes for K-16
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MORE Inspired
Educators Speak
www.communityworksjournal.org
Place as the Context, Service-Learning as
the Strategy,
Sustainable Communties
as the Goal
|
Community Works Institute
(CWI) is a non profit educational organization dedicated to supporting
educators in creating curriculum with place as the context, service-learning
as the strategy, and sustainable communities as the goal. learn more
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