Community Service Research Links

Our Career Academy Design Team members are busy researching how other schools structure and administer their community service requirements. Below are some of those links. I will continue to update this as they come in.

Jessica Johnston:
“My mom teaches in RI, so I asked her about their Senior Projects, and if you get a chance, please check out these websites, rubrics, and project descriptions. Rhode Island only started requiring this, so I am not familiar with any of this even though I graduated from a HS in RI; but these projects are VERY different from what we are proposing to do as Rhode Island's demands are not to do applicative course-related experiences BUT 20 hours of community service from 9-11th grade and then a large research project in 12th grade called "Senior Project". However, their website gives us some ideas about how to do "rubrics". Their Seniors also have to submit Senior Portfolios, so it's worth a look at that too. Ok, here are the links:”

Here's the school district's website
http://www.fg.k12.ri.us/index.cfm
under teaching and learning there's a drop down menu for rubrics and graduation requirements, but I didn't see anything for the senior projects.

Here's a link on RI dept of efducation about senior projects. ( I did a search on RIDE website.)
http://www.ride.ri.gov/CMS_Search.aspx?searchwords=senior%20projects

Here's the pdf document from Ri dept of ed.
http://www.ride.ri.gov/highschoolreform/dslat/pdf/exh_070101.pdf
Rubrics
http://schoolsites.schoolworld.com/schools/fosterglocester/files/6575/PGE%20Rubrics%202008-2009%20Compiled%20with%20support%20documents%2010-27-08.doc


Meredith Westfall: http://www.seniorprojecttracker.net/

Erik Bunker:
“I came across this school which incorporates a senior seminar into their capstone project. It was designed to enrich the senior thesis experience by providing students with a forum to discuss philosophy of art as language.
Sounds good, check it out.”