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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

A warm and safe place to live with hot food on the table is non-negotiable. The unfortunate reality is that not everyone in the community is warm, safe, fed, and able-bodied enough to get through the harsh winter. They learn about food insecurity, practice teamwork and communication, and build skills in organization and logistics.

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We spend an hour with parent/family liaisons and community outreach coordinators who instruct us on the importance of reading at home to overcome vocabulary gaps or how to navigate systems at school. content, books events, topics, issues). Black families frequently arrive at school to be treated like students themselves.

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The Humanities are in the Midst of a Historic Paradigm Shift

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Much as Enlightenment ideas spread across the late 18 th century Atlantic world with the help of pamphlets, printed books, magazines, and political songs and through literary salons, scientific academies, fraternal lodges, and coffeehouses, we, too, have witnessed the circulation of new ideas and perspectives.