Faculty/Student Opportunities - Colorado College

Service-Learning Colorado Springs creates new and exciting opportunities that increase the rigor and relevance of a Colorado College education while simultaneously helping our local community. We encourage faculty and students with an interest in this work to contact Deb Yazulla Sharpe. A few examples of CC courses and co-curricular programs that utilize our K-12 connection are listed below.

• Enroll in a community based learning course engaged in local schools.
• Support a K-12 teacher incorporating service-learning into their curriculum through the Service-Learning Corps.
• Connect necessary community resources with after school and evening programs in a school.
• Tutor individual or small groups of students in core subject areas.
• Incorporate K-12 community engagement work into an independent study, thesis or capstone project.
• Explore how student-led organizations on campus support local schools through the Center for Service and Learning.

• Explore how a class you teach (block, extended format or adjunct) could connect to K-12 and incorporate a community based learning component.
• Invite a K-12 class to sit in on your class on campus to give young students exposure to higher education and to help provide relevance to the material they're learning. Recently, a group of at-risk seventh graders have participated in a Calculus 3 course.
• Lead reflection sessions with students working in K-12 schools, helping them make connections between their experiences and larger community issues. (For an example, see CC/East Ambassadors above)
• Incorporate K-12 community involvement into students' independent study, thesis or capstone projects.
• Involve a class you teach in community based research, helping public schools that don't have the resources to investigate issues of interest.

• CO 390: Translation and Theory (Corinne Scheiner) - CC students analyzed language and cultural barriers facing Wasson High School ESL students, services provided to meet their needs and presented a report to the school about suggestions for school wide methods of improvement to better serve this population
• ED 250: Power of the Arts in Education (Kris Stanec) - East students participated in a visual and performing arts club designed and run by CC art and education students.
• SO265: Immigrant Communities in Colorado (Eric Popkin) - Public Achievement is a youth civic engagement initiative focused on the most basic concepts of citizenship, democracy, and public work. This broader methodology was applied directly to the issue of immigration in Colorado in conjunction with Wasson High School.
• Japanese Club at Taylor Elementary (Joan Erickson) - Fourth and fifth-grade students from Taylor Elementary School learn about Japanese culture and language by attending an after-school program facilitated by CC students studying the Japanese language.