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Georgia
Academic Service Learning
Academic service learning is a
K-12 teaching and learning method that connects meaningful community service
experiences with academic learning, personal growth and civic responsibility.
Service learning allows students to learn and develop through active
participation in thoughtfully organized service. Service learning provides
avenues that are coordinated through collaboration between schools and
communities.
2003 -- 2004 School
Year
Shaw High School has been a part of
Georgia Academic Service Learning since 2003. The project, which was
funded by a 2003 -- 2004 Georgia Academic Service Learning grant, included over
250 students from grades 9-12. These students
interviewed local veterans and citizens who lived, served and fought during
World War II, wrote and edited biographical essays from the interviews, gave
reflective speeches and published a compilation of the biographies in a book
entitled Saluting Our Heroes, Part I -- World War II. All
participants were given a copy of the book, and a copy was also donated to all
public and school libraries in Columbus, Ft. Benning and the Historic Columbus
Foundation. Students interacted with an
older generation to learn history from eyewitness accounts and to understand the
impact of World War II on their community. Shaw students also produced
Social Studies Fair projects using information from the interviews. In
celebration of the completion of the Service Learning Project, the veterans and
citizens were entertained with a USO-style show written and produced by the
students in Shaw's Fine Arts Department based on the information from the
interviews and other research.
2004 -- 2005 School
Year
The successful educational experience of
Saluting Our Heroes, Part I: World War II convinced Shaw High
students and faculty to pursue Phase Two, the Korean War. Again, over 250
Shaw students honored the service of veterans and community leaders who
participated in and lived during the Korean War. From the information
gained in the interviews, students wrote and edited biographical essays,
presented speeches, edited, organized, analyzed, synthesized and evaluated the
information collected from these interviews to compile an oral history of
veteran and citizen biographies for Saluting Our Heroes, Part II: The
Korean War. A hardcopy of the collection has been presented to each
participant and recipient. A copy will be donated to each library in
Muscogee County, each school library, each Ft. Benning school library and the
Historic Columbus Archives. Through these interviews and relationships
with the veterans and other citizens, students gained a valuable perspective
about the Korean War which is often overlooked as a significant event in
history, except for those who were directly involved. Many of the students
gave over 100 hours of service in participating in this project. The
reaction by the veteran and community recipients was overwhelming, giving strong
confirmation of the need to preserve such oral histories. Veterans
repeatedly expressed their appreciation for the opportunity to tell their
stories to such interested young people when they had so often felt that their
sacrifices were forgotten. They also appreciated the opportunity to
establish connections between military and civilian communities, and the younger
and older generations to personalize and to preserve the relevance of the
experiences and sacrifices demanded by this event in American history.
2005 -- 2006 School
Year
Phase Three, the Vietnam War is honoring those who
served or were families of those who served during the Vietnam War. Below
are photos taken of some of our veterans who were interviewed for Phase Three
and photos taken at Appreciation Night honoring those veterans. Stay tuned
for more details and news of this year's project.
Veterans of Vietnam War Interviewed
by Shaw students
Appreciation Night for our Vietnam
War veterans
Learn and Serve Projects for the
Vietnam War
The social studies department held their annual Social Studies Fair in the
Shaw Media Center the week of December 5 with several of the entries being on
different topics the Vietnam War. Additionally, Mrs. Scott's science
students researched Agent Orange and its affects.
Welcome Home
Celebration
On Thursday, March 30, 2006, the students,
faculty, administration, and staff of Shaw and Hardaway High Schools held a Welcome Home Celebration for the Veterans of the
Vietnam War. There were speeches from soldiers and officers who
participated in the war and music from the band and chorus. This event was
immediately followed by a reception in the Media Center, and the participants
were given a copy of the student-made collection of biographies, Saluting Our
Heroes, Part III: Vietnam War. News and media coverage
publicized the event.
A Note from Dr. Jim Arnold
The Shaw High School Service Learning Project "Saluting Our Heroes" has
completed its third year, and we have indeed met our share of heroes. We
envisioned a variety of teaching opportunities; we received a resurgence of
student interest that was enormously refreshing. We planned for expanded
learning opportunities; we experienced a level of creativity and student
achievement that once again transcended our hopes and reaffirmed our beliefs in
the power of learning. We had hoped for a positive experience for our
students and our faculty; what we experienced is expressed in Saluting Our
Heroes, Part III: Vietnam War. We reinforced our lessons from the
first two years, and once again saw that personal contact enhances student
learning; that history may be learned from reading but becomes reality when we
speak to those who make it; and that many things worth knowing are best
expressed and learned by personal contact.
We extend eternal gratitude to the
Veterans who selflessly shared their experiences with us. Our students
have discovered through this process an expanded sense of history and a keen
awareness of its influences on their families, city, state and country in
the not so distant past. They told us of the fears of young men and women
facing combat, made real for us the horror of war and destruction, and
personalized the sacrifices that families made for the defense of freedom in
places too soon forgotten.
These are vital lessons for students and for teachers that speak to the heart of
the educational process and cannot be measured by standardized tests.
Thanks to all of you who helped us teach our students about character,
bravery, sacrifice, patriotism, and the things that
combine to make our nation free and strong.
Dr. Jim Arnold, Principal
Shaw High School
Awards and Honors
On Monday, October 4, 2004, Dr. Jim
Arnold, Mrs. Kay Agnew, Mrs. Lynda Kannady, Mrs. Ginger Starling, and Mrs. Rosie
McDuffie from Shaw traveled to Atlanta to receive a GHRAB Award for Excellence
in Archival Program Development from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory
Board and Secretary of State Cathy Cox for the oral history project Saluting
Our Heroes: Part I -- World War II. Shaw received a
beautiful plaque to represent our accomplishment and a copy of our book was
donated to the Georgia Archives.
Shaw High School's oral history
project, Saluting Our Heroes: Part II -- Korean War, from
the 2004-2005 school year also received a GHRAB Award for Excellence in Archival
Program Development from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board in
Atlanta on October 3, 2005. Representing Shaw were Dr. Jim Arnold, Ms. Heidi Platz, and Mrs. Rosie McDuffie. Pictured below is Dr. Arnold receiving the
honor from Laura Meadows, Assistant Secretary of State, and David Carmichael,
Director of Georgia Department of Archives and History.
2006 -- 2007 School
Year
This school year, Shaw High School's ninth grade citizenship
students complied a local history honoring people and places that have made
significant financial, developmental, social, or architectural impact on
Columbus, Georgia. They photographed the landmarks, interviewed citizens, and
produced a book that indeed celebrates their city. Mrs. Lynn Butler's advanced
art students provided many of the photographs and illustrations for the
celebration. Their projects were edited by their peers and included
interviewing, on-site visits, and intense research to complete the project for a
competition judged by educators, community members, and local businesses for
inclusion in Celebrating Columbus, a book which will be presented to the Chamber
of Commerce, placed in local libraries, and in the Historic Columbus archives. This project encompassed two semesters and focused on improving writing skills
and community awareness. On Thursday, April 26, "Celebrating Columbus" was
presented and "celebrated" in the Shaw High School Media Center to
students, faculty, and staff. Community leaders
and all ASL participants were invited. During the Celebration, the Shaw Show
Choir performed pop numbers, and students presented glimpses of history through
the lives of Carson McCullers and other notable Columbusites. Mrs. Nila Burt,
Coordinator for this year's Learn and Serve Program, presented a copy of the
book to Dr. Marietta Webb, Director of Career Technology at Shaw. This year's
book, Celebrating Columbus, was dedicated to Dr. Webb.
Links:
www.learnandserve.org
www.servicelearning.org
www.gu.org
www.nylc.org
www.studentsinservicetoamerica.org
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