#community involvement in education

[andrewjbernhard]

Great 2024 of Community Service: Bernhard Law Firm Volunteering with Uplift Literacy

As 2024 comes to a close, we are thankful for the great work of Uplift Literacy, a nonprofit dedicated to helping children in underserved communities develop essential literacy skills. What a great program!

[townpostin]

Green Drive Marks End of Shiksha Saptah at S.D.S.M. School

Week-long NEP 2020 Anniversary Celebration Highlights Educational Innovation S.D.S.M. School’s Shiksha Saptah showcases diverse activities promoting cultural heritage and educational goals in line with NEP 2020. JAMSHEDPUR – S.D.S.M. School for Excellence concluded its week-long Shiksha Saptah celebration with a community-driven plantation initiative. The event, held from July 22-28, 2024,…

[yellow-yarrow]

thinking about Steban's long commute to campus, of course he's not attending classes

[starbuck]

going into my final week of classes and we always have one last week after the final paper (so the professors have time for grading) where typically the only work we have is one last discussion post.

usually, this post is pretty simple and light (to go easy on us after the final). my ethics class is like “summarize your conclusions from your final paper! :)” and my communications class is like “tell the class about your career goals! :)”

meanwhile, statistics…

[fluffypotatey]

ok so single parent!jayce/jayvik au is on a mini hiatus (like only 1 month which is nothing. you won’t even feel it) but i am curious on what y’all think about what the general conflict will be

obviously, Cait is displeased with her teacher and legal guardian being in contact with each other to discuss her (no change here), but how she goes about trying to stop them is the real question 👀

one option i was thinking was Cait spending more and more time with Mrs Ambessa Medarda, her neighbor Mel’s mother. after a second or third meeting/conference/text/call —whatever those gays are doing— Jayce reaches out to Mel to help tutor Cait with her studies

(hence, more Ambessa screen time)

however, Mel is also a pretty busy woman, so cannot tutor Cait everyday, which she sadly expresses to Jayce some weeks after agreeing because it’s beginning to overwhelm her work schedule. until her mother interrupts and offers to tutor Cait on the days Mel cannot

Jayce is overjoyed

Mel wants to be too, but holds her tongue because (sideplot) maybe her mother has changed and grown out of the lady she remembers from her childhood

thus, Cait gains a new tutor (someone of whom she’s already had a liking too because of her bluntness and unapologetic nature) and incidentally becomes her confidant where she complains about Jayce and Viktor’s new “partnership”

turns out Ambessa is not only an amazing academic tutor, but an amazing war strategist (who knew! definitely not us) and begins to give Cait some tips on how to sabotage their plans to “fix her” (<- her fear because she is 12)

eventually the story starts to have Jayce try to weed Cait away from Ambessa with Mel and Viktor’s help, but of course Cait doesn’t understand why because she is doing what they asked and her grades are improving but now it is wrong

and then my other option is basically:

Cait inserting herself into the jayvik meetings while giving Viktor the stink eye

Cait trying to be subtle in changing Jayce’s mind on continuing to talk to Viktor

Cait telling Viktor about Jayce’s Ph.D thesis as a distraction away from her because she knows he also has a fascination with the same topics as her legal guardian (and Cait is very aware on the long tangents Jayce can get into)

and then Cait finding Viktor at her house one day drinking tea in the kitchen with Jayce

the worst of all privacy breaches for a parent-teacher conference (they actually were talking about Jayce’s thesis)

and then it keeps happening

Cait is in heavy denial that there’s something going on besides falling for her distraction plan

but then Ximena makes a comment about love and 12 year old Cait blue screens before deciding “wait no actually how do i reverse time”

Cait seeing Viktor smiling softly at his phone during class: STOP FLIRTING WITH MY LEGAL DAD

so yeah idk 🤷🏻‍♀️

[definitelynotnia]

normalise saying "I don't have enough information on this topic to have an opinion on it"

and then staying out of it completely rather than going along with wtv opinion u imprinted from three random posts/reels/tweets and having weird misinformed debates with full confidence

[entriprises]

plotting guide : bobby & kate of @tornadotame

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setting: our verse | my verse | your verse | modern | alternate universe | other

pre-established relationships? yes | no | depends on the relationship

possible relationships: friends | classmate | co-worker | roommate | family, real or adopted | dating or blind date | married | friends with benefits | unrequited love | lending a hand | teacher - student | rivals | allies | partner-in-crime | enemies | protecter - guarded | business partners | spy - infiltrated | manipulator - manipulated | star-crossed | first meeting | other

i’m in the mood for: fluff | angst | horror | romance | humor | crime | hurt / comfort | action | supernatural | slice of life | crack | dark threads | light threads | any genre | multi-para | shorter para | one-line | any length | plotted threads | unplotted threads | other

feel free to: message me ooc | message me ic | tell me your ideas | write a starter | answer one of my opens | send a meme

[envirogoth]

hi happy earth day :) I hope you all had a nice day and thought about mother earth. i was exhausted after a long week and also had to get some blood drawn so I was too tired to do much. and I do my best to keep my everyday activities environmentally friendly, so not much different to do today:)

my schools library advisory club that im in was planning to do a trash pickup around the school ground this week for earth day, along with a spring fundraiser to raise money for our library. our school district just lost a huge amount of funding bc the state funded schools less and our referendum for more money failed. everywhere in the school needs fundraisers more than ever. the student body has been very responsive to this and is planning a walk out protest, on Monday, and during a school board meeting many students came to vouch for teachers being let go (misguided imo since the school board doesn't have the budget- if not those teachers, then it would just be someone else) but either way I'm proud that students here are getting involved in things that matter.

as a student body, there will also be many letters, emails, and calls to local and state government about this issue. it makes me happy to see people coming together for this, in a purple state and red county too.

student involvement is one of the best things a school can have, second to dedicated teachers. teachers are the best people on this earth and they deserve so much.

whenever I heard about student involvement before, I just thought about pep rallies and football games. maybe it's because the majority of my high school experience has been clouded by covid, or that I was depressed and cynical, but I had never seen how cool it could be. not to mention the club I'm in has wonderful people that really want to make a difference at my school, and my art teacher has made a huge impact on my outlook! Im so lucky to have such a dedicated school, in spite of the issues with certain mulleted groups of students.

community is such a wonderful thing to have. cherish the one your in, and the people next to you<3

[worldwatcher3072]

Promoting Civic Engagement: Top Civics Courses to Boost Your Knowledge and Participation

iCivics: iCivics is a nonprofit organization founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that provides free, online civics education resources for K-12 students, including interactive games, lesson plans, and teacher resources.

Harvard's Justice and Civics course: Harvard's Justice and Civics course is a free, online course that explores the role of civic engagement and the justice system in promoting social change. The course is open to anyone and includes video lectures, readings, and quizzes.

The Democracy Project: The Democracy Project is a series of free online courses offered by the University of California, Irvine, that cover a range of topics related to democracy, including political theory, constitutional law, and public policy.

The Civic Engagement Initiative: The Civic Engagement Initiative is a program offered by the Center for Civic Education that provides professional development opportunities for teachers to help them integrate civic education into their curricula. The program includes online courses, webinars, and workshops.

Youth in Front: Youth in Front is a program offered by the Youth Activism Project that provides online courses and training programs for young people who are interested in activism and civic engagement. The program includes training on how to organize campaigns, engage with elected officials, and advocate for change.

By promoting these and other civics courses, we can help to foster a more engaged and informed citizenry, better equipped to participate in the democratic process and make a positive impact on our communities and society as a whole.

[goldyke]

Anyone who says that Autistic people who script/tv talk aren’t communicating is a fucking liar or a damn fool

My new favorite example: a kid at school was told “We’re not friends anymore” and she immediately responded “You get 0 ClassDojo[1] points”

Excuse me she is expressing that she is disappointed in this other person’s actions just fine I think.

[1] A classroom app with many available tools including a point-based behavioral system

[townpostin]

Education Drive Targets School Dropouts in Jamshedpur

Workshop launches ‘Back to School Campaign’ to reintegrate out-of-school children District administration aims to bring 5-18 year olds back into education system through intensive campaign. JAMSHEDPUR – A one-day workshop on Ruar 2024 (Back to School Campaign) was held at the Town Hall, Sidhgora, under the leadership of District Magistrate Ananya Mittal, focusing on reintegrating dropout children…

[great-and-small]

When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.

The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.

Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.

So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.

This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.

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(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)

(Source 3)

[prometheusschoo]

Discover how Prometheus School Noida fosters holistic education through vibrant extracurricular clubs, community involvement, and dedicated student support services. Explore the Promethium Club's initiatives that inspire learning beyond classrooms, making it a leader among Noida schools in nurturing well-rounded students.

[delicatelysublimeforester]

🌲 Calling All Canadians!🌲

🌲 Calling All Canadians! Join the GivingTuesday Movement with Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas! 🌲 This GivingTuesday, Tuesday, December 3, 2024, join Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas in a global movement of generosity, unity, and giving back to the environment and our community. It’s simple: every act of generosity counts. Whether you give your time, your energy, or a…

[myblckcty]

Shann Davis Jr

Celebrating Shann Davis Jr.: An Aspiring Thespian and Future Educator Shann Davis Jr., a name that resonates with dedication and talent within the local theater scene, is quickly becoming a beacon for young performing artists in North County. Currently enrolled at Mira Costa College, Shann’s journey from a high school performer to a classically trained actor and technician showcases his…

[compassionmattersmost]

Teaching Compassion to Kindergarten Children: A Heartfelt Curriculum

Compassion is a vital quality we can nurture from a young age. Teaching kindergarten children about compassion not only helps them develop empathy but also fosters a caring and supportive environment. Here’s a structured curriculum to introduce the concept of compassion in an engaging and age-appropriate way. Week 1: Introduction to CompassionStart with a story like “The Giving Tree” by Shel…