1. Community, Leadership, Service, & Mentoring
Jordana Henry
Everett Alvarez High School

2. Goal
To provide Puente teachers and counselors with strategies and activities to engage students in community, leadership, service, and mentoring.

3. Essential Question
How do we inspire our students to think beyond themselves?

4. Community Service Reflection
What community service have you done so far? (this year)
How are these experiences helping you become a better person? A better leader?
What are you learning through doing community service?

5. Teachers & Counselors must...
-Help students realize the benefits of service, mentoring, and leadership
-Create high expectations
-Model the expectations by engaging in service, mentoring, and leadership at the school site and in the community
-Facilitate opportunities for self-reflection and opportunities for students to learn and empathize with the struggles of others

6. Community Leadership Service & Mentoring
What are the benefits?
Turn and Talk

7. My Expectations- Juniors
Requirement
-25 hours of service every semester and over summer breaks.
Total
7,913
Show binder of how I keep track

8. C/0 2016
The class average is 264 hours of service

9. My Expectations- Freshmen
Requirement
-50 hours of service every semester and 25 hours over summer breaks.
Total
2,677

10. C/0 2018
The class average is 82 hrs of service

11. What about the students who say…?

12. You say...

13. Be A Role Model What are you willing to do?
What personal sacrifices are you willing to make?

14. The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.
~Tupac
Read the poem
Identify and share strong lines
What is the message?
Why is it significant?

15. Garden vs. Concrete?
Watch a video of two high schools, which school is growing in a garden? Which school is growing in the concrete?
What are the implications?

16. Label the Concrete
What issues/obstacles represent the concrete your community?

17. Label the Concrete
What issues/obstacles represent the concrete your life?

18. How Do You Continue To Grow?
Label the space above the concrete with all the nutrients that support your growth
-Quotes/Songs
-People
-Sports
-Dreams

19. Sample Roses

20. Sample Roses

21. Sample Roses

22. I am a rose growing in concrete.
Warm Up- Verb Cluster
Base Sentence + (comma,) + verb-ing + addition
I am a rose growing in concrete.

23. Warm Up-> Quick Write Section
Students in the United States value education.
Write an extended response and be prepared to share.
I strongly agree with this statement because…
I agree with this statement because…
I disagree with this statement because…
I strongly disagree with this statement because…

24. Warm Up- Discussion
What are the different ways that students travel to school in the United States?

25. Warm Up- Discussion
How do you get to school?

26. Education Around the World
Get your passport, let’s take a trip!

27. Essential Question
Why should students in the United States value their education?
One reason students in the United States should value their education is because _______________________________.

28. Motivational Videos- Beat the Odds
What is one word that best describes Timothy?
What can we learn from Timothy?

29. Discovering Your Passion Through Service
Read an excerpt from Karen’s personal statement prompt 2

30. Importance of Classroom Community
Creating a Team Mentality
-Puente Program
-Puente Club
-Class
-Team A
-Team B

31. Community Service Projects
9th Grade Puente Service Projects

32. Community Service Project

33. Instructions: Powerpoint OR Video
Introduce yourself and your community service (name, location, description)
Supervisor name & description (if relevant)
Explain services the place provides
Explain the benefits of community service and benefits to community itself
Genre: Express & Reflect
Community Service contact info.
3-5 minutes
Speak clearly and professionally
Due: Friday, January 29, 2016
Save Video OR Powerpoint on a flashdrive

34. “If you don’t take care of your community, who else will?”
Final Thoughts
“If you don’t take care of your community, who else will?”
~Jordana Henry~