Service Learning
Required Service Courses by Grade
Multidisciplinary Service Course
Homelands: Discovering Diaspora through Oral History + Media is a multidisciplinary course that examines contemporary trends in the movement of people around the world with a focus on indigenous, immigrant and refugee communities. Through personal interviews, oral histories, media arts, and community based participatory research, students investigate displacement factors such as war, violence, poverty, and climate change. By engaging with Bay Area community organizations, students will achieve a more nuanced understanding of global migration trends, social issues impacting migration, the practical efforts of local organizations, and grass roots movement building. In addition to academic study and research, students will interview and document local individuals using audio, video and photography, creating a final collaborative and community based capstone project. (½ Credit; fulfills Service Learning 12 requirement for 12th graders) (11th and 12th Graders only)
Cross-listed in Multidisciplinary classes.
Service Learning Partner Organizations
Rosa parks elementary school |
18 reasons cooking class/food education for teens |
826 Valencia Street |
Aquarium of the Bay |
Arthropod research with Matt Madeiros |
Bike It Forward/San Francisco Bike Coalition |
Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 |
Buena Vista Manor |
BVHM Elementary School |
Cathedral |
Children’s Book Project |
Don Fisher Clubhouse |
Entomology program, research for University of Hawaii |
FAAE Pistahan |
Faces SF |
Food Runners |
Francis Memorial Hospital |
GLIDE- harm reduction |
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy as a volunteer at the Presidio Nursery |
Hawaii Research Project |
Homeless Prenatal Program |
Horizons |
Institute on Aging |
Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program at Clarendon Elementary School |
JFCS Food Pantry |
Library of Congress |
Local library (Golden Gate Library) |
Martin de Porres House of Hospitality |
Mission Greenway |
Music Non Profit |
Muttville |
Note Love |
Old Weather Forum |
Park Branch Library |
Peer Point and Youth Transforming Justice, FLY Program. |
Personal, Editing Resources - creating free and accessible resources for editors |
Planetary Patterns/ Old Weather |
Playworks |
Presidio Trust |
Project Open Hand |
Redding Elementary School |
SF Citi Impact |
SF Community Health Center |
Sf/Marin Food Bank |
Silent Knowledge |
Smithsonian |
SOMA Skate Park |
St Anthony’s FCP Clothing Distribution |
St Anthony’s kitchen |
St. Anthony's food drive |
St. Gregory’s |
Stem E |
Street Soccer |
Support Girls (Zimbabwe) |
Take to the Hills |
Teacher Salary Project |
The Beat Within |
The Gubbio Project |
The Highlighter Project |
Uncommon Law |
United Playaz |
Vote Forward |