Creator: Jiahua He Course: Community Learning (Roe) This is a project that reflects personal professional development learning to enhance my service experience….
Keeping Children Focused
Category: Spring 2020
OWC Final Deliverable
Creators: Students in Management Consulting in Organizations Course: Management Consulting in Organizations (TF 9:50am) The presentation is a consulting project done by a group of students in MGMT4550, it is the final deliverable of the semester long project. They worked the entire semester with OWC on developing different models for how the OWC could use…
Youth Success
Creator: Dominique Massey Course: Child Intervention and Treatment (Mann) Abstract: With this project, students were instructed to build an ecological model of youth success. Students reflected on Service-Learning experiences, course content, and class discussions to identify the micro-, meso-, and macro-level risk and protective factors necessary to foster positive youth development….
Book Module: I Love my New Toy (Mo Willems)
Creator: Thea Yazbek Course: Philosophy for Children This is a book module representing what we did in Philosophy for Children. One of our main goals in the class was to convey how philosophy can be taught to children. My book module focuses on the children’s book I Love my New Toy by Mo Willems. It…
How Do Children Succeed?
Creator: Abigail Shelton Course: Child Intervention and Treatment Abstract: With this project, students were instructed to build an ecological model of youth success. Students reflected on Service-Learning experiences, course content, and class discussions to identify the micro-, meso-, and macro-level risk and protective factors necessary to foster positive youth development….
Philosophy for Children: Discussing the Meaning of Life
Creator: Angela Xie Course: Philosophy for Children As the first service-learning course offered by the Philosophy department, our class took on the task of facilitating productive philosophical conversation with second and fourth graders at the Hernández After School Program. Through various children’s books, we were able to discuss concepts such as courage, environmental ethics, aesthetics,…
Boston Temple – Personal Experiences and Takeaways
Creators: Aarti Aswani, Nicholas Lozoponi and Leo Waltermann Course: Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines (Garrett) Abstract: This is a presentation about Aarti, Nick and Leo’s personal experiences volunteering at Lifeboat Boston’s Boston Temple site, which works to provide healthy food to those who are food insecure every Thursday from 5-7pm for free. They explain…
LGBTQ Foster Care in Texas
Creators: The Students of Organizational Communications Course: Organizational Communications (Dallimore) Abstract: My course’s service learning project was to conduct at three part analysis of the LGBTQ experience in the Texas foster care system, and ways that it can be improved. I wanted to create a word cloud from the finals analysis that they turned in,…
Reflection on Philosophy for Children
Creator: Thea Yazbek Course: Philosophy for Children This is a reflection of my time in this class, aimed at future students of Philosophy for Children. It describes the challenges and successes that came about throughout this semester, as well as my experience of each of these events. I chose to submit this reflection because I…
An Ecological Model of Youth Success
Creator: Youn Jo (Jay) You Course: Child Intervention and Treatment (Mann) Abstract: With this project, students were instructed to build an ecological model of youth success. Students reflected on Service-Learning experiences, course content, and class discussions to identify the micro-, meso-, and macro-level risk and protective factors necessary to foster positive youth development….