Service Learning

Success isn’t merely a personal thing that you keep all to yourself. To be successful, you have to interact with your community, environment, and be aware of the world around you.

The Middle Division Community Service Program provides students with meaningful opportunities to develop and nurture a sense of civic responsibility, as they serve others through structured, informative, and reflective experiences. These experiences enable students to develop an appreciation and acceptance of others, a better understanding of the human condition, a desire for social justice, and awareness of local, regional, and global diversity.

Teachers in the Middle Division are highly encouraged, and assisted, to implement service projects that enhance their current curriculum, and each year the students are involved in division wide service projects as well. These projects vary each year based on the direction of the curriculum and current events. Advisory groups complete service projects that connect to our themes, and serve people inside and outside the school community. In past years, some of these activities have included the Thanksgiving Food Drive, Adopt-a-Family during the holiday season, and tsunami relief efforts.

 

News

  • A Time of Giving Lesson

    Is it possible to teach empathy and compassion for others? Is it realistic to ask Middle Division students to think about people who they might never meet? At our first Advisory session in November, all Middle Division students learned about our Time of Giving programs—the various food and toy drives we conduct during the holidays to help those in need. In this session, Advisors were asked to share an article and statistics about the current poverty level in Los Angeles, and the reality that many of our fellow Angelenos are struggling to put food on their tables. In an effort to help students better understand the real issues of poverty, a number of the 8th Grade Advisors chose to read an article with their students from the October 30 issue of Parade Magazine entitled, “A Chance Encounter, A Lasting Bond” by Alex Tresniowski...

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Contact Information

Betsy Hall
Middle Division Dean of Students and
Service Learning Coordinator
310.889.2621