Videos About Our Work
Video about our interdisciplinary mosaic project at Camp Scott, a juvenile detention camp in Santa Clarita for incarcerated teenage girls.
Video about our music and history program at the school housed at Aviva in Hollywood, a residential treatment services home providing 24-hour, therapeutic residential treatment for abused and neglected teenagers.
Video about our year-long social emotional learning program Gompers Middle School program in Watts, California for at-risk middle school youth.
Video about FOOD unit at SEA Crenshaw! Across all disciplines, we studied FOOD through the lens of “What role does food play in our lives?” Social Studies focused on the history of food in the world and in our lives/families. ELA focused on students’ experience with the documentary film “Fed Up” and on their close reading and literary analysis of the text Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Math and Science focused on organic, local and manufactured food and the debates surrounding all three, as well as the math and science related to nutrition and health as detailed in the documentary film Supersize Me. Health and PE was rooted in materials adapted from “A Healthy You,” a PBL unit plan made for Envision Schools by Stanford University.
Articles About Our Work
Read some of these articles and pages that will give you more context for our work:
School Project Raises Funds for Sundanese Refugees: www.lacoe.edu
Pasadena nonprofit tests new website: One teacher calls it the Craigslist of collaboration: www.pasadenastarnews.com
The Journal of Juvenile Court, Community and Alternative School Administrators of Calfiornia: On the Road to Success by Allison Deegan, Los Angeles County Office of Education: pages 12-18: ccsesa.org
Road to Success Academy aims to spark interest in learning among juvenile detainees: www.dailynews.com
Adoption of project-based learning for incarcerated youth grows: www.lacoe.edu