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….
Creators: Patricia Tan, Kathryn West, Karina Masri, Sacheverel Eldrid This is a slideshow that depicts our semester at the Rafael Hernandez school. It showcases our reflections on the various activities we did with the kids….
Creator: Zaha Alzaabi These are photographs I took during my Service Learning at United South End Settlements, helping in the younger toddlers classroom. I enjoyed going there every Wednesday afternoon, playing with the kids, interacting with the staff, and learning about early childhood development….
Exploring Boston’s Neighborhood’s: Egleston Square Creators: Caroline Swenson and Mia St. Angelo This presentation examines the community surrounding my service-learning community partner, the Rafael Hernandez School. We explored the demographics of Egleston Square, where the school is located, and formed connections between the community and the students and families of Hernandez….
Let’s Get Ready Infographic Creator: Ana Nixdorff This infographic explains the disparity of college enrollment and completion rates between students from high-poverty and low-poverty schools. Let’s Get Ready works to fix this problem by preparing students from underserved high schools for the SAT and the college application process through a near-peer mentoring/tutoring program. View full…
Creator: Alex Notkin I was placed with the Camp Harbor View Leadership Academy. The academy is an after-school program for “young leaders” in grades nine through twelve, catering to students from underserved neighborhoods in Boston. As part of this service-learning experience, volunteers such as myself provided the students with, 1. Academic support, 2. Relationship development,…
Service and Learning with Little Brothers Creator: Ronan McNally This video is a brief description of the time I spent this semester volunteering at Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly (Smith House location). Here I talk about what Little Brothers is, their goals as an organization, the role I play in accomplishing those goals, and…
Creator: Omar Abbouchi This presentation highlights my experience as a tutor and academic mentor in the Boston Scholar-Athletes program. I chose to volunteer here as I was a very serious athlete in high school, and still consider myself to be. As I participated in the IB Curriculum, one that is particularly known for its heavy…
Service Learning – Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly Creator: Lauren Brown This is a short video that briefly describes my service learning experience throughout the Spring 2019 semester as part of my Advanced Spanish Conversation Course….
Creator: Erin Drury This short reflection explores the concepts of community and service through the experience I had serving at Scholar Athletes. It looks deeper into what it means to serve, and describes how I made my time with my Service-Learning partner more meaningful. When I first began my service-learning experience via Dr. Keeling’s First…