Connect, Inspire,
Transform
CWI's Internationally Acclaimed Summer
Institutes for Educators
CWI's Summer WEST
Institute on
Service-Learning
July 30th - August
3rd, 2012
Los Angeles, California
at Loyola Marymount University
more information l register online email l 909.480.3966
CWI's Summer EAST
Institute on
Service-Learning
July 16th -20th,
2012
Shelburne, Vermont
in partnership with Shelburne
Farms
more information l register online email l 909.480.3966
"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 Institute 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.
“CWI gave me the opportunity to go deep in
my understanding of service-learning and the way it can transform
education. This Institute has given me a framework with which to return to
my community with concrete ideas on how to implement service-learning.”
Elizabeth Ferguson,
Educator
The Lawrenceville
School
New Jersey
“I feel empowered! Thank you! It was wonderful to see and feel
the sincerity of the faculty
for service-learning.”
Kathleen Harte,
Teacher
The Gillispie
School, La Jolla, California
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Discover Community Works Journal
Online Magazine for Educators l NEW Spring 2012 Edition NOW ONLINE
Dear Colleagues,
The latest
edition of Community Works
Journal online magazine is now available, at no cost, to the
educational community. GO TO: www.communityworksinstitute.org
The ideals of service-learning, education for sustainability, and place
based education resonate through Community
Works Journal. As you read these inspiring stories written by
educators in the field, consider your own place and efforts and think about
submitting an article of your own. (Submission guidelines are available on
our web site at: www.communityworksjournal.org)
CURRENTLY FEATURED ESSAYS and ARTICLES INCLUDE:
ESSAY l Of PLACE AND EDUCATION
Burning Brush: Playing with Fire
By DAVID SOBEL
The glad animal play of childhood, the complete immersive
quality, is one of the elixirs of life and also one of the indispensable
proteins that build a sturdy adult soul. Middle childhood offers a window
of opportunity to have these experiences, and if a child misses that
opportunity, the quality of immersion is less accessible later in life.
When, as adults, we sink into a novel or get lost in creative work or
tussle with new ideas or improvise on the job, we’re using the skills that
were roughed in during childhood play. read more
UPCOMING EVENTS l PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Join with educators from around the world
for a week of intense exploration, learning, and practical application.
A reminder that space is limited for Community Works Institute's
(CWI) annual summer series of unique professional development events.
Registration is well underway and these events will fill rapidly. Among the
events being offered are CWI's Summer EAST
and WEST Institutes on Service-Learning, along with our partner Shelburne Farms'
Education for Sustainability Institute. All events are appropriate for
K-16 and community educators and administrators. Register Now, Space is
LIMITED! more info
FEATURED ARTICLE
Digging a Hole: Clinical Teaching and the Journey of Learning
By Dr. STUART GRAUER
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
FEATURED REFLECTION
Making Sustainability and Service-Learning Mesh in the
Classroom
By NATALIE LAROSE
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
FEATURED ARTICLE
The Ideal Engaged Citizen?
By JAKE GROHS
Sometimes the fork
in the road also serves as a necessary slap in the face. There I
was—an over-caffeinated Master’s student in Engineering Mechanics at
Virginia Tech, dutifully working on my thesis in preparation for a May 2009
graduation. Decent grades. A four-year veteran on a project sponsored
by General Motors. Supportive advisors happy to recommend me to
potential employers. read more
FEATURED ARTICLE
A Wild Experience: The Transformative Power of Nature
By KELSEY STAMM
What happens when you take a group of
inner-city kids from Philadelphia, most of who have never traveled outside
the state, and plop them on a remote Costa Rican beach with no electricity?
The answer? Magic. Eleanor Boli, a Spanish teacher at Germantown High
School in Philadelphia, spent the last year raising money to take six of
her students on a field science and cultural exchange program. read more
FEATURED ARTICLE
The Grief Outreach Initiative: University Students Help
Grieving
Children in the Community
By TRICIA MCCLAM, Ph.D. and MARY ALICE
VARGA, M.Ed.
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
PAST PRINT ISSUE
ARCHIVE In addition to the featured essays, reflection and articles
listed here you will find a large archive of articles, ideas, and resources
available through Community Works Journal Online Magazine, including an archive
of past print issues of the Journal.
Enjoy!
Joe Brooks
CWI Executive Director
jbrooks@communityworksinstitute.org
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