Final Project Prezi

Relationships that emphasize

charity we will call "giving."

To deepen relationships and to

forge new connections we will

call "caring."

Carl G. Lauro

Alicia's School

99 Kenyon Street

Grades PK-5

*Student Eligibility for Subsidized Lunch

93% in this School

46% Statewide

*Students Receiving ESL/Bilingual Education Services

36% in this School

6% Statewide

*Students Receiving Special Education Services

11% in this School

15% Statewide

*Attendance Rate

92% for this School

95% Statewide

*Chronic Absenteeism

27% for this School

17% Statewide

What is charity?

Woonsocket High School

Grades 9-12

Tiff's School

Students eligible for subsidized lunch

School: 63%

State: 46%

Students receiving bilingual/ESL education

School: 7%

State: 6%

Students receiving Special Education services

School: 23%

State: 15%

Students from various Racial/Ethnic backgrounds

52% White

4% Multiracial

27% Hispanic

Asa Messer Elementary School

Nicole's School

1655 Westminster Street

Providence, RI, 02909

K through 5th grade

6% Asian

265 students

Chronic Absenteeism

26% In this school

17% Statewide

11% African American

Student Eligibility for Subsidized Lunch

95% In this school

46% Statewide

Attendance Rate (Elementary Schools)

93% In this school

95% Statewide

Students Receiving ESL/Bilingual Education Services

44% In this school

6% Statewide

Students Receiving Special Education Services

13% In this school

15% Statewide

Doing what is right and moral, and putting in the minimum effort. The band-aid to cover the wound and hoping it heals itself.

Lillian Feinstein Sackett St. Elementary

Lauren & Tiarra's

School

Students eligible for subsidized lunch

School: 90%

State: 46%

Students receiving ESL/Bilingual Education services

School: 37%

State: 6%

Students receiving Special Education services

School: 12%

State: 15%

Students from various ethnic backgrounds

African American: 8%

White: 3%

Hispanic: 82%

Native American: 0%

Multiracial: 1%

Asian: 6%

What is change?

Safe Spaces

This also connects to Silenced Dialogue because everyone experiences things differently. Some of us feel that we are only doing charity work while others feel that they are actually making a difference. In Silenced Dialogue Lisa Delpit stresses that students learn differently, and perceive teachers and experiences differently.

The social reconstruction of an event.

This providing a permanent solution to the

problem at hand. Change requires making

a difference so that it no longer needs correction but now becomes habit.

Alicia's Charity

Tiff's Change

Kozol

Tiff

Kozol

"I think they hate you because you are not in their condition."

Tiff

My first day at my Service Learning placement was interesting. I got into a little tiff with a student named Kyle.

Kyle and I have yet to see eye to eye. We haven't talked much since the argument. From time to time I'll try to speak to him but, he makes no effort and wants nothing to do with me.

Kozol, "Amazing Grace"

Alicia's Example

Pictures from my classroom

Jonathan Kozol in the article "Amazing Grace" discusses why students don't want to learn from teachers. The prime example in the story isn't teacher versus student but, the point he gets across is shown. According to Kozol, a student won't learn from a teacher if the teacher doesn't show they understand. If the student feels that they aren't valued, they will completely shut down and basically say, "No, I won't learn from you."

Delpit would also say that teachers should be communicating in an effective way so that students of all races can understand it. Everyone has a different backround, and not everyone was taught the same way.

Pictures In the School

I wanted to focus more on how I believe my service learning gears more towards "charity". Since I work with at least 12 students during each 2 hour session, I don't get the chance to make a difference in an individuals learning. I know that the students love when I am there, and I do think that I am able to help, but only to a certain level. If I got the chance to work with one student each class then it would open the doors to "change".

Mr. Marzini has worked hard to make a huge impact on his students. Recently, he teamed up with a few other teachers and fought the board of education to allow students to go to Africa. They won the case and for the past two years, students of his have been raising money and traveling to Africa for the experience of a lifetime. GAME CHANGER? High school students don't really think they'll ever get the chance to travel the world with a purpose. These students are raising money to provide clean water filters, school books, school materials, and any other necessities that can help those in need.

Safe Spaces

Tiff

August would agree that Mr. Marzini's classroom was a positive environment for all students. The students of the past and present would agree with this statement as well.

LGBT issues are something Marzini takes very seriously. He has a lesson around tolerance and fights for equality for every race, gender, sex, and sexuality.

Alicia's Safe Spaces Example

Allen G. Johnson would also agree with

this in someways. Johnson wants to

change how people think about issues of difference and privilege.

"In the service of what?

Is a question that inevitably merits the attention of teachers, policy makers, and academics who take seriously the idea that learning and service reinforce each other and should come together in America's schools, Messrs. Khane and Westheimer suggest.

Nicole's Safe Spaces Example

One of the days that I went, one of the little boys was having a bad day, he was aggressive and flipped over a chair. So when the teacher was filling out the behavior reports at the end of the day, she asked the student what was going on at home. After talking with him for a minute, the child said that he was “getting the beatings” at home with the mother’s hand, a spoon, a belt, and a flip-flop. This represents Safe Spaces because the child felt comfortable enough to tell the teacher that there was a problem at home.

Nicole's Charity Example

Another example I have is during my observation time in Providence Career and Technical Academy, I was at lunch with five of the teachers there and they were talking about their concern for several of the seniors. These teachers feel that some of the seniors, who are supposed to be graduating this spring, are slacking off so they can stay in school. They are afraid to graduate. At school they get breakfast and lunch and they have a warm place to go to everyday, once they graduate they are on their own. They feel safe in school, and it gives them a purpose.

Nicole's Third Example

One of the students comes from a home where both of his parents do not speak English. His parents both speak Spanish, and his mother also speaks a Native American language. The teacher does not put this little boy down for learning three languages. Instead she is amazed by how well he is doing in school and how well he speaks English. The teacher calls him by his name the way he wants it pronounced. His name is Tomás, but she could pronounce it like Thomas.

The teacher also has many books that have the main character as an African American or Hispanic person. This is very helpful for the children to connect to the stories because all of the children in the class are of a minority race.

In The Service of What?

The Politics of Service Learning

by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer

When I walk into the classroom for my service learning project, the students are so excited to see me, and ask me if I am going to their room today. I feel that the children are getting more out of this project than I am. I like going to the classroom and working with the teacher and the children but I do not feel as if I am creating change, more just changing the Band-Aid than doing surgery.

The classroom that I work in has the students sitting at three different tables. I work at the table that the teacher and assistant are not working at. When the students from my table are done, I go to another table to anyone that needs help.

Tiarra's Collier

Honoring

the First

language,

Two languages

are better

than one

Lauren's Charity Example

Collier

Multilingual

students and

learning

Tiarra's Change

Tiarra's Safe Spaces

Collier and Rodriguez talk about this in giving students the ability to practice their home language within the schools. This also represents a safe space for those who do not speak the dominant first language.

Lauren's Safe Spaces Counter-Example

My classroom is filled with fun colors, posters, rugs, and most noticeably tables and chairs rather than desks. All of the students sit either at the tables for work time, or at the rug all together... except for one. One boy "the bad kid" has once been in trouble for "sexually assaulting" another kindergartener.

His never-ending punishment?

~ He sits alone at a desk facing the wall

~ Sits at a chair behind the rug

~ Does not work in groups

~ Does not talk to peers or tutors

~ Is occasionally forgotten about

And they wonder why he's chronically absent... He has no safe space

The Sole Desk

During the first 30 minutes we do "Rocket Math." I feel that this is a case of charity, because they would do exactly the same regardless of if I was standing there or not. I am not teaching a lesson, but facilitating an activity. My responsibilities are...

~ set up papers

~ review the process

~ time the practice test

~ time the test

~ record the scores

This makes me feel as if it is a case of charity, rather than change. I'm not actually teaching anything.

Sackett St. School’s principal challenged his students to read 2000 books. There were many people from the school department and other supporters who doubted them. On April 12th, fun Friday and it was time for the students to reveal how many books that they had read, but also for them to cash in on their deal. The students read 3721 books and the principal had to in turn eat his worm. GAME CHANGER? Yes, this principal took something that is considered boring and not interesting to many students and turned it into something that even the teachers would not want to miss, eating a live worm.

Lauren's Third Example: Collier Counter Example

~ bi-lingual school to cater to the needs of their students

~ some classes are English only, others Spanish and English

~ most staff speak both Spanish and English

~ signs in both languages

~ encouraging students to learn English

~ call children by their given names

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