At the heart of the Center for Early Education’s mission is a commitment to the community beyond the School, and community service is an integral part of the student experience. The School’s Community Service program begins in the Early Childhood program and continues throughout the elementary years. The program is broad in its scope, focusing on the concerns of empathic children, including the environment, aging, poverty, literacy, and disabilities.
Each year, children in the elementary program participate in a series of community service fieldtrips, visiting organizations such as the Watts Senior Citizen Center, the SOVA Food Pantry, and the Blind Childrens Center. Students meet several times to learn about and discuss their upcoming day of service, and assemble again afterwards to reflect upon their experience and create a presentation to share with the whole school.
The Center firmly believes that learning can be deepened through service to others and students across grade levels participate in in-class service learning projects. By connecting the traditional school curriculum with civic-minded projects, the School attempts to both reinforce academic principals and instill in the children a strong sense of compassion and caring for others.
Please check back regularly to see how our Community Service program is doing!
TEENS UNITED LIVE was created when Bella Porter and Sol Fagenson '09, two 14 year-old students from Crossroads School in Santa Monica, heard that the funding for a local school’s music program had been cut. Bella and Sol decided to use their own musical talent to raise money to help. Gathering many of their musician friends from schools across Los Angeles, they curated a concert at The Roxy to raise money for The Foshay Learning Center’s Music Program. The show featured over 35 teens, who played a revue of great classic songs, and to their surprise, the show sold out. Students from Foshay, which feeds more students to USC’s Trojan marching band than any other school in the country, also joined the bill. The money raised by TEENS UNITED LIVE helped this incredible program continue.
This year the concert is May 19,2013 at the Roxy at 1 p.m.,supporting the Harmony Project. Harmony Project does wonderful work in urban inner city areas putting kids in orchestras and jazz bands and teaching them to play music. They support these kids as long as they stay in school. The music not only enables the students to stay off the streets and thrive, but the whole community is elevated.
Teens from Crossroads, Harvard-Westlake, SOCES, LACHSA, Hamilton High, Colburn and others are on the bill, which includes the most outstanding musical talent in Los Angeles, in styles from pop to jazz. For tickets please visit www.teensunitedlive.com.
Big Sunday is quickly approaching--SUNDAY, MAY 5. We need you!!
We've tweaked our model slightly this year. There are TWO ways to help the community!
1) ON CAMPUS FOOD DRIVE FOR SOVA: We are again running a weeklong food drive to support SOVA. Starting April 29 through the morning of May 6, we will have bins all over campus to collect donations, and the SOVA truck will roll in around 9:30 am to pick up.
Since CEE is SOVA's largest non-corporate donor, we feel a tremendous responsibility to support them during these challenging days.
2) GARDENING AND PAINTING AT KELSO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: We also wanted to offer our families a different opportunity to give their time, so we've partnered with Kelso Elementary in Inglewood, a K-6 school of 720 students located across the street from the Forum. Comprised entirely of Title 1 families, Kelso faces the challenges of so many older schools in lower-income neighborhoods--many projects and no budget.
* Our projects: rejuvenating their garden, painting designs on the vast asphalt and possibly a mural, reorganizing their lost and found area.
How you can help:
* Come dressed and ready to paint and garden on May 5! Feel free to include non-CEE friends and family.
* Help collect last-minute food donations and load the SOVA truck on Monday, May 6.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! We hope this will be a meaningful and memorable community effort for our CEE families.
If you have any questions/ideas/suggestions, please feel free to call or email any of the Community Service chairs: Ben Barnz, Carol Bornstein, Kara Corwin, or Robin Sipkins.
Do you know that The Center participates in Big Sunday every May, lending a hand in collecting food and supplies for those in need? This year, in addition to Big Sunday, we decided to take part in the End of the Month Club, a monthly collection program to supplement Big Sunday's ongoing efforts to provide assistance to our community. One item--both nutritious and non-perishable--is selected every month which is collected at the school to be donated at the end of the month to a designated organization. Amazingly, the initial goal of 500 items per month has been met and surpassed every month:
May 2012: Peanut Butter for SOVA (1,000 jars collected)
June 2012: Cereal for Hope-Net (900 boxes collected)
July 2012: Canned Tuna for M.E.N.D. (1,500 cans collected)
August 2012: Granola and Energy Bars for Westside Food Bank (over 10,000 bars collected!!!)
September 2012: Pasta and Sauce for Friends in Deed (1,000 packages and jars collected)
Look for the program fliers around the school and be a part of our community service efforts!
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by Nari.Kye
on Tuesday November 20, 2012 at 05:33PM
TEENS UNITED LIVE
1) ON CAMPUS FOOD DRIVE FOR SOVA: We are again running a weeklong food drive to support SOVA. Starting April 29 through the morning of May 6, we will have bins all over campus to collect donations, and the SOVA truck will roll in around 9:30 am to pick up.
Our general plan:
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