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Learn & Serve
Congratulations students, and Project Coordinator Sandie Wilson, for winning the Governor's Award for 2007!!!!
Learn and Serve – Arizona Department of Education-funded program designed to implement service learning in our state’s schools
For the past four years, the STAR School has featured the Learn and Serve WINDOWS program—“From the past looking in to the future – from the future looking out at the past.” This program has been instrumental in mending cultural rifts between our multicultural student body. For the first three years, adult volunteers—primarily elders—from both sides of the reservation fence—shared life stories, historical accounts, traditional knowledge and more, fostering caring, understanding and respect.
During the 2005-2006 school year, WINDOWS shifted from a 1.2 (adult volunteer) to a 1.1 Learn and Serve program—where our students became the volunteers—reaching out into the community to assist the elderly and the community at large.
This year’s program has received national and world-wide recognition—from individuals such as U.S. Representative Rick Renzi, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, Coconino County Supervisor Deb Hill, as well as visitors from Japan and Russia.
This proposal expands the WINDOWS program, as well as various service learning projects already implemented by the STAR School, such as the Native Science program. Seven student leaders have headed individual projects under the WINDOWS Dine’ Elder Help Project. These students put their heads together to discuss questions such as who are the people in our community and what are their special gifts and challenges, and what is the history of the people and the land?
Students will continue to work with adult members of the community, adding to their knowledge of history, culture and community needs.
