A presentation from a UC Berkely teaching conference about how to get students involved in their community.

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. 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

5. Community Leadership Service & Mentoring
What are the benefits?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

6. My Expectations- Juniors
Requirement
-25 hours of service
every semester and
over summer breaks.
Total
7,913

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

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

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

10. What about the students who say…?

11. You say...

12. Be A Role Model
1. What are you willing to
do?
2. What personal sacrifices
are you willing to make?

13. 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

14. 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?

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

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

17. 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

18. Sample Roses

19. Sample Roses

20. Sample Roses

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

22. 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…

23. Warm Up- Discussion
What are the different ways that students
travel to school in the United States?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

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

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

26. 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
_______________________________.

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

28. Discovering Your Passion Through Service

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

30. Community Service Projects
9th Grade Puente Service Projects

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