Abington High School & 26: A Match Made in Student Advocacy Heaven
Led by Ms. Kathleen Hauger, the Social Studies Chair, Ms. Mary Rodgers, the Service Learning Coordinator and the Art Department, Abington HS has taken 26: Student Advocacy Kit along with their renowned service learning program and created something special.
One of Ms. Hauger's student's, used 26 as a template to describe how other young people and adults use concepts from 26 to become change agents in their own communities and solve problems. This project is organized as an 8 minute DVD that features 3 different civic problems. After each problem is presented the DVD is stopped and students are asked to discuss how they would deal with the problems presented to them on the DVD. After which the students are shown the ways in which each problem was dealt with using the 26 template. This project is designed by a student to be used by classroom teachers to demonstrate to their students what civic engagement looks like. This project was part of a student’s senior project. All Abington HS seniors must complete a senior project that is connected to community service.
Another of Ms. Hauger's student's created an on-line voting program, School Voting, that will be used by the school to not only ballot students on their choices for President of the U.S., but for local elections, student council elections, prom and home-coming and student sentiment: This program is slated to be used district-wide.
The Art department with help from PennCORD went forward with The Memory Project, which is designed to make students more aware of global poverty & food security issues. The Memory Project is a unique initiative in which advanced high school art students create original portraits for children who have been abandoned, orphaned, abused, or neglected. To do this, the art students receive pictures of children who are waiting for portraits, and then work in their art classrooms to create the portraits. Once finished, the portraits are delivered to the children, and the children are then invited to create drawings or write letters to send back to the art students. The children are from: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
One of Ms. Hauger's student's, used 26 as a template to describe how other young people and adults use concepts from 26 to become change agents in their own communities and solve problems. This project is organized as an 8 minute DVD that features 3 different civic problems. After each problem is presented the DVD is stopped and students are asked to discuss how they would deal with the problems presented to them on the DVD. After which the students are shown the ways in which each problem was dealt with using the 26 template. This project is designed by a student to be used by classroom teachers to demonstrate to their students what civic engagement looks like. This project was part of a student’s senior project. All Abington HS seniors must complete a senior project that is connected to community service.
Another of Ms. Hauger's student's created an on-line voting program, School Voting, that will be used by the school to not only ballot students on their choices for President of the U.S., but for local elections, student council elections, prom and home-coming and student sentiment: This program is slated to be used district-wide.
The Art department with help from PennCORD went forward with The Memory Project, which is designed to make students more aware of global poverty & food security issues. The Memory Project is a unique initiative in which advanced high school art students create original portraits for children who have been abandoned, orphaned, abused, or neglected. To do this, the art students receive pictures of children who are waiting for portraits, and then work in their art classrooms to create the portraits. Once finished, the portraits are delivered to the children, and the children are then invited to create drawings or write letters to send back to the art students. The children are from: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
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