Service Learning at Howenstine High Magnet School

Magnet schools are educational settings that have added academic amenities to the regular school curriculum.  They have the same comprehensive scholastic requirements/curriculum as all other TUSD schools, but have included extra academic enrichment in their special theme.  The magnet theme at Howenstine is Service Learning.  The goal is to integrate the values of “community service” through experiential learning and to connect meaningful community service with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility.

Service Learning is a teaching method in which students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that meets a real community need.  Service learning is coordinated with the school where it is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum while fostering civic responsibility.  It includes structured time for the students to reflect on the service experience and address instructional objectives and standards.

Adapted from the National Service Learning Trust 1993

Click here  for the Arizona Service Learning Standards

 

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Service Learning in Action...

Howenstine Barrio Centro Mural Project with Tucson Arts Brigade:  http://www.barriocentromural.blogspot.com

Howenstine High School Build with Habitat  For Humanity: http://videos.azstarnet.com/p/video?id=2978743

 

Students raise the walls of another Habitat House in partnership with Habitat for Humanity,Tucson

 

  
  

                     

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Students construct a shade awning structure for their landscape service learning project

 Welding

 

Students read a children's story that they wrote and published to a pediatric patient at UMC

 

 

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