Service-learning

The link below highlights of the first week of the San Leandro Academy for Multi-Media's (SLAM) Fast for Non-Violence.  Students learn multi-media skills while engaging their campus in a month long anti-violence campaign.  This is the third year of this project.  Students produce anti-violence media, share campus-wide messages over the school announcements, and fast one day for non-violence and peace.   

PG&E "Bright Ideas Grants" up to $10,000.  Due March 20th, 2010 Dear Educators: The PG&E Solar Schools Program is accepting applications for Bright Ideas grants through midnight, March 20. Participating schools must receive utility service from Pacific Gas and Electric Company. You may submit your application online at: http://www.need.org/pgesolarschools/big.htm

1st Annual Live Deliberately Essay Contest   Deadline: March 31, 2010 This first annual essay contest from the Thoreau Institute of the Walden Woods Project asks students to respond to Thoreau's famous call to "live deliberately." In 500 words or fewer, students are prompted to consider what their own deliberate lives look and feel like. Essays will be judged in two age categories: 13–16 years and 17-21 years.

  Sign up for a National Service Learning Conference PRECONFERENCE with Cathryn Berger Kaye (that’s me!) Due to a speaking commitment in southeast Asia, I will only be offering this session at the conference this year and hope to see YOU!