June 2007 High School Renewal Newsletter Feature

IMPACT II CHESP Wrap-Up Scrap Book

For four years, Boston Public School students and teachers have built successful Community, Higher Education School Partnerships (CHESP) with the help of Service-Learning grants from Learn and Serve America and the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Hundreds of teachers and thousands of students have applied their classroom learning to solve real world problems. Together they've made a difference. More important, they have bonded with college students and professors, Vista volunteers, local historians, municipal workers, policemen and policewomen, hospital personnel, and advocates for the environment, the homeless, the needy, and more.

Pictures from the past school year 2006-07 illustrate how BPS high school students engaged in the acts of kindness and responsibility that really improve the quality of life for so many. We believe that these students and teachers will continue to learn to serve and serve to learn so that the spirit of Community Service Learning will endure.

Health Career Academy's Angela Capucci, recently named an "Ambassador in Education" by the MetLife Foundation, and her Latino Multicultural Advisory class include Casa Nueva Vida and Rosie's Place as partners.	Hebrew Rehabilitation Center patients and Boston International High students in Claudia Bell's class exchange stories about cultures and traditions.
Rosalia Chiulli's Physics class work on a design for "universal dwelling" at East Boston High and then volunteer for real work at a Habitat for Humanities building site in Dorchester.	Janet Platt's math students help the Boston Day and Evening Academy garden grow by designing and building a seedling rack.
Students in Karen Prussing's Science class learn about the Mercury Cycle and share information about mercury contamination in fish.	Maurice Lane's art students educate Charlestown High about HIV and AIDS with their traveling mural, silk screens, and linoleum prints.