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S.T.E.P.S Program 2013

By Molly Meczywor and Kalie Lynn French

Summer Transition Educational Program for Success

Literacy Skills: Strategies for Success Curriculum

STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

Service Learning Career Exploration Social-Emotional Skills

FOCUS: 5 – Strive to Be a 5

Attendance Participation in Service Learning Project Completion of all Academic Assignments Complete work in Success Binder Complete a Final Project

5 Criteria

Group of up to 40 students (36 total) Three Weeks, 8:30-1:30 with lunch

provided Transportation provided Week 1: SKILLS and OBSERVATION Week 2: RESEARCH and PLAN Week 3: ACT, REFLECT, DEMONSTRATE

Structure:

Week 1: SKILLS, OBSERVE, INVESTIGATE

Quote and Build-a-Learner

Activity…..

OBSERVE: What is a community? Use graphing to represent results.

What skills do I need to get into college? Off to MCLA!

Students will analyze data collected throughout the week and create a bar graph to represent assigned prompt.

Week 1 Assessment

Week 2: WHAT ARE OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS? INVESTIGATE/PLAN/ACT

Service Silent Activity – what’s important to us?

Looking at solutions….Group Work

PROJECTS:Recycling Park Clean UpWater Quality Homeless Animals/Animal CareFood Lunch Program

Students will write a Persuasive Letter to a person of importance relating to project

Students will create a Rhetorical poster relating to project

Week 2 Assessments:

Week 3: Reflect/Demonstrate

“I’ve gotten better with the groups and that’s thanks to the STEPS program. STEPS helped me in a lot of ways. Like I wasn’t really a good listener and that’s to the whole ‘active listening’ thing I’ve gotten better. We learned how to be polite. They taught us that it’s important to think about our future. I can be a better person and now I believe in myself.”

Student Reflection

Final ProjectRecommendations for Service Projects

Red Sox Game!!! (We’ve gotta have fun, too)

STEPS Celebration Fair

Week 3 Assessment:

100% Graduation RateFeedback from parents: “This program made my son more focused…..he looked forward to being here.” Observed students ability to communicate with others’Student reflection: “Active Listening is going to help me in class.”Feedback from Community Partners: “The kids really showed growth this summer!”

Final Successes:

Service learning:-A method of teaching and a way of learning-Students use academic knowledge and skills to meet real community needs through service connected to their curriculum

Needs and Problems:

Observed, Brainstormed and Created a survey

Investigations:

-Survey-Speaker: Jen Munoz-And volunteered at the Berkshire food project

Rya, Toni, & Cynthia creating

surveys

Research Solutions:

• School wellness policy – Do we have one and how was it created?

• USDA guidelines• Nutritional

values• Speaker: Corey

Nicholas, Food Service Director for NAPS – Q & A

Project ideas:• Create a suggestion box for café• Buy a sanitizer dispenser• Create more surveys to find out what foods kids liked in summer

Plan/Implement the project:

• Worked in small groups to analyze data and make recommendations for Corey

• Created a suggestion box and suggestion cards

survey  Yes Noquestion 1 12 4question 2 20 5question 3 8 8question 4 21 18question 5 13 19question 6 24 15question 7 10 19question 8 16 10question 11 10 26

REFLECTION:

-This Power Point!-Four Square Reflection Paper-Group Discussions-Data Collection-Listening to other students’ comments-Hearing feedback from Corey about our project

Curriculum:

-Math: We analyzed data and created bar graphs-We worked together in groups-Used Math to build a suggestion box- Science: researched healthy foods

What I think: I think the project that we did was

very interesting. I thought it was interesting because we got to ask students and faculty what they thought of the school food and even if they ate school lunch. Our group volunteered at the Berkshire Food Project to see what other organizations consider healthy and we put food in bags to give to people who need food. We created suggestion boxes for the cafeteria.

Thanks for watching!!

S.T.E.P.S 2013DRURY H.S.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Kalie French, Shirley Gardener, Ryanon Kelly,

Tonilee Therrien, Samantha Shade, Austin Dean, Ethan

Therrien, & Issack Demarsico.