Creator: Savita Maharaj This reflection represents the service our class did, tutoring in 826 Boston’s John D. O’Bryant Writers’ Room. It highlights the experiece of Service-Learning and its importance, in addition to connecting the service itself to our course discussions about Black Boston in literature….
Creators: Hanwen Alex Chen, Karl Rustam Sethna, Noah Thomas Knobloch, Xhorxh George Mitrushi, Rithvik Manne 826 Boston and Rafael Hernandez School are members of the Egleston Square Community in Jamaica Plain where students are provided a space to engage with volunteers and staff members in the greater Boston area to enable them to have their…
Creator: Mackenzie Breen This semester in our First Year Writing Service-Learning class, students submitted weekly reflections of their Rose, Bud and Thorns of the week prior. For this activity, the rose of service is meant to be the best part of service, the bud is something to look forward to next week and the thorn…
Creators: Bryce Parazin, Dean Frame, Elaina Comia, Gabriel Lind, Gabriel Vordick, James McManus, Marguerite Yee, MinSoo Kang This artifact is a video of the students from the First-Year Writing Honors class taught by Carolyn Sirois. The class participated in a discussion about how the semester went with Service-Learning and how they progressed from start to…
Creator: Amanda Mangano This blog post explains one of the experiences I had working with the students at the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in the Northeastern Writer’s Room. This was the first time I realized the impact of my service on the students at O’bryant, which is why it is my…
Collection of Blog Posts from 826 Creators: Grace Arevalo, Kashish Bhojwani, Megan Chong, Abdelrahman Elsaadany, Aleksandr Gritsinin, Jeong Heon Kim, Cameron Maurice, Maya Mudgel, Su Jung Lee, Lucas Shifrin, and Justin Yu This is a collection of blog posts written by the students of Sebastian Stockman’s First Year Writing course. Each student performed weekly service…
The 826 pieces I was missing Creator: Aanchal Dharmani The community partner organization that I worked with was 826 Boston, a non-profit youth writing organization that empowers traditionally underprivileged students. They essentially help students aged 6-18 to find their voices and enhance communication skills that are integral to succeed in life and academics. My artifact…
Creator: Abbey Holland, S-LTA This presentation comes from Caitlin Thornbrugh’s First Year Writing class and highlights each student, our community partner, the neighborhoods we are serving in, and how students travel to their service….
826 Boston Artifact Creator: Yuxing Wang The artifact is about my summary of service learning in 826 Boston. It includes the idea about how to be a good tutor and volunteer, how to teach children effectively, and what I gain from the tutoring….
BTU (826 Boston) Creator: Jee Suh This blogpost involves service done at BTU with 826 Boston as a part of a first-year writing course. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Every time I go to the BTU, I feel like I have a different feeling about it just because of how different it is every single time I’ve been there….