I had my first meeting yesterday with 10 students enrolled in my Urban Education Course -the course I selected to work on for my project. I was very worried and not sure if the students would agree to the service learning (SL) component that I later decided to include as part of the course. The SL Coordinator at PC, Heather Whitney, was invited to give a presentation on the format of the SL program and she did a great job. All my students were excited about the SL component of the course. YEAH! However, two students had conflict with respect to the day/time for the SL. I am working on what to do for them.
I met today with one of my resource persons, Nick Longo, Assoc Professor of Public & Community Service Community Service Studies and and Program Director Global Studies and shared my course syllabus with him and got some great feedback on how to get my students engaged in the SL. I am using two books (required) for the course: 'Our schools suck' by Alonso, Anderson, Su & Theoharis and the book by Jonathan Kozol, 'The shame of the nation'. Recommended readings include the book 'A hope in the unseen' by Suskind that was recommended by one of us, Anne Seitsinger-thanks Anne. First assignment for students is to describe their K12 schools and indicate if it was an urban school or not and explain why. So long.
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