Service-Learning Program Returns to PHS This Summer With New Courses

From The Academy of Integrated Studies and Community Engagement (A.I.S.C.E.):

Looking for summer opportunities for your high school student? Think Local!

The Academy of Integrated Studies and Community Engagement (A.I.S.C.E.) returns for its third year at Piedmont High School. 

AISCE (“ace”) is a service-learning program for students entering 9th-12th grades that integrates community service with informal collaborative seminars emphasizing discussion, exploration and reflection. Courses such as: “Inclusive Communities”, “Oakland – From Boomtown to Bust and Back”, “Math for All”, and “iVamos!” will be offered again this summer along with new courses:  “Come to the Table: A Farm to Table Journey” and TheAmericanTeenagerProject (see description below).

Building on our partnerships in the East Bay, Math for All will again be working with T.R.U.S.T.

New this summer is an exciting partnership with O.U.S.D. that will offer students the opportunity to work and engage locally in three and four-week classes with 45- 60 hours of community service credit.

For more class listings, descriptions and schedule go to: http://www.piedmontportal.org/schools/aisce/

Take A Look At New Course: The AmericanTeenagerProject

It’s Complicated! Photography and Interview Workshop and Fieldwork. Join the co-founders of The American Teenager Project — a national initiative aimed at combatting social division among youth and cultivating empathy among and on behalf of adolescents — for a series of immersive, alliance-building sessions during which you collaborate with other participants to take each other’s portrait and personal biography.

Learn the crucial skills of on-the-spot portrait photography and interviewing so you can head into the “field” and gather stories of teenagers in your neighborhood.

Reflect on and analyze what you learn about the struggles, triumphs, complexity and diversity of youth in 2013. Translate this knowledge into a powerful, informing prints on the “Bay Area Teenager” using only still photography, text, and narration.

Be part of building an archive of adolescence nationwide in collaboration with The American Teenager Project and be connected with other youth in the Bay Area who are participating in similar programs where they live.

NOTE: there will be some fieldwork expected between the second and third week in addition to the 45 class hours. Earn up to 45 community service hours for this class. www.TheAmericanTeenagerProject.org

For more information contact AISCE Director/PHS Counselor:  Ashley English at aenglish@piedmont.k12.ca.us

To register go to: http://www.piedmontportal.org/schools/aisce/