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Program Overview
The Educating the Heart School Program works with K-12 schools and community-based organizations in underserved communities across the country to combat academic and civic disengagement among youth.Through training workshops and professional development, we provide educators, community members, youth, and parents with the skills, tools, and resources necessary to develop school and community-based service-learning programs that exemplify Cesar's values and principles.
Goals:
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To increase academic and civic engagement among youth in underserved communities. |
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To improve public education by providing relevant curricula, high quality professional development, and innovative programming that meets the needs of all of our diverse learners. |
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To utilize Cesar's legacy to develop a new generation of young leaders that have the skills and motivation to become life long learners and agents of change. |
To view a presentation of the Educating the Heart program that includes information on its mission of improving the level of academic profiency among Farm Worker, Latino, and other working families by providing educational opportunities, the definition of service-learning, and the Chavez after School Service Clubs.
The Cesar Chavez Serve and Learn Program in
Chicago
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Illinois
instills an ethic of service and civic responsibility in our young people. This innovative concept of Service Learning couples academic instruct with related community-service projects.
As a key component of the program, students are encouraged to look within their own community and emulate his work addressing present-day community issues. The final step of the program is project reflection, which allows students to discuss what they have learned and share their community service experience with their school.
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