Welcome! Our video highlights our high school STEM service-learning model. In conjunction with the model’s STEM curriculum, we have developed an accompanying youth leadership and college and career curriculum. We have piloted these curriculums in a summer bridge academy the last two years. A school could establish this project as a semester-long afterschool program or as part of its science or engineering courses.

*Could you see this project existing at one of your high schools, and if so, would you envision it as part of an existing course, an after-school class, or a summer bridge academy?

*If you offer a STEM program at your school do you have the capacity to also offer college and career curriculum alongside it?

*Have you found that students’ confidence and persistence in STEM has been enhanced when accompanied with a service-learning project?

We look forward to your comments and questions about the project, curriculum, partnerships, research and more.

Joanna, thank you for sharing this project. It looks like students really got a lot of of the experience. Do you all currently have plans/strategies for helping the students go deeper in their STEM learning? I imagine that students came up with additional questions and ideas during the course of the service-learning experience, and may want to find other ways to learn more STEM. If you haven't already done so, you might find the RECESS project (http://stemforall2017.videohall.com/presentatio...) to be an useful partner in this regard.

 Thanks Marcelo, Yes It would be great if the students teachers' could follow-up during the year with students questions and go even deeper. Thanks for sharing the video I am familiar with RECESS and colleagues with the presenter. Great work they are doing on a large scale. 

Very cool stuff! I really appreciate how you've thought about how this fits into the school--as a summer bridge or course/course supplement. What would you say are the essential components of this model if you were going to transplant it to another school or location? What's most important to making this work happen?

The essential components are youth leadership, working on identity, resiliency and decision making with students and college and career access curriculum, and finally the service learning.

A fascinating project! I would have loved to participate in a program like this in high school. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the program and as you look forward to expanding beyond Oakland schools, what kind of instructional capacity would a school need to have in place to implement your program effectively?

Thank you.  a school would need a couple of teachers interested in doing this. Science, math, engineering teachers. also someone you could do leadership and college and career info session with students. This could come from staff or local partnerships.  Also the school would need partnerships with their local community college for dual enrollment if held after-school and summer. Partnerships that offer students college credit at no cost.