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Service  |  Academic Work  |  Education & Training  |  Capacity Building  |  Deliberative Democracy 

 

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Types of Service   short-term  |  ongoing school year  |  summer

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Volunteer

 One-time opportunities:

 

• Martin Luther King Read-In Day at Martel School 

 

 

On-going opportunities:

 

• Longley Mentoring Program
• Montello Reading Club
• After-school homework help at Trinity, the Lewiston Public Library, Hillview, and Lewiston High School
• Bates Buddies
• Project Story Boost
• Book Buddies

 

Community Work-Study

 

 

 

• America Reads

 

 

Student Volunteer Fellow

 

• America Reads Fellow

• Hillview Fellow

• Longley Mentoring Fellow

• Adult Education Fellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer

 

• Hillview Summer Program
• Auburn Public Schools Early Literacy Program

 

           

 

 

 

Academic Work   courses  |  service-learning  |  CBR and policy research   |  departments and institutes

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RELEVANT ACADEMIC COURSES WITH A CBL COMPONENT

EDUC 231. Perspectives on Education

AC/ED 238. The Public Work of Academics

EDUC 240. Gender Issues in Education

ED/SO 242. Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Equality in American Education

EDUC 245. Literacy in Preschool and Elementary Years

EDUC 250. Critical Perspective on Teaching and Learning

ED/PY 262. Action Research

DN/ED 265. Teaching through the Arts

ED/WS 280. Globalization and Education

EDUC 320. Community Education/Community Action

EDUC 343. Learning and Teaching: Theories and Practice

EDUC 355. Adolescent Literacy

EDUC 360. Independent Study

EDUC 362. Basic Concepts in Special Education

ED/SO 380. Education, Reform, and Politics

EDUC 447. Curriculum and Methods.

EDUC 448. Senior Seminar in Teacher Education: Reflection and Engagement

EDUC 450. Seminar in Educational Studies

EDUC 460. Student Teaching I

EDUC 461. Student Teaching II

EDUC s19. Theory and Practice of Writing and Tutoring

EDUC s27. Literacy in the Community

ED/EN s28. Children's Writing Workshop

 

 

 

 

 

RECENT COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH THESES

• Family literacy work with Somali families at the Hillview Housing Complex

• Creation of an eight-week active learning intervention with Head Start

• Design of a family involvement program at Longley Elementary School

 

 

  

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities

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• In-class trainings and orientations prior to community-based learning.

• Tutor training workshops at the Downtown Education Collaborative.  These workshops cover:  cultural context; skills and strategies; behavior management; site-based norms

• Site-based training sessions for various programs, including Montello Reading Club, Longley Mentoring, as well as for cbl students at individual schools.

• Meetings twice each semester with America Reads tutors and Bates Buddies.

 

 

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building   training  |  fundraising  |  resource development

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• A $10,000 grant from the Braitmayer Foundation to create literacy and family involvement programming at Longley Elementary School.

• A $25,000 Maine Family Literacy Initiative grant from the Barbara Bush Foundation to support family literacy for Somali refugees in Lewiston.

 

 

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy   evaluations  |  policy research  | issue forums  |  advocacy

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• Study of equitable education funding by Professor Helen Regan and student William Mortimer. 

 

Contacts   staff  |  faculty  |  students  |  community partners (local, regional, national)

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Literacy Partners:

 

 

Longley Elementary School

Montello Elementary School

McMahon Elementary School

Farwell Elementary School

Park Ave School

Lewiston Middle School

Lewiston High School

Lewiston Adult Education

Lewiston Housing Authority

HeadStart

Auburn Early Literacy Program, Auburn Public Schools

Lewiston Early Literacy Program, Lewiston Public Schools

Lewiston Public Library

Trinity Jubilee Center

Downtown Education Collaborative

 

 

Contact:

 

Ellen Alcorn

Program Coordinator, Service-Learning Program

Harward Center for Community Partnerships

Bates College

161-163 Wood Street

Lewiston, ME  04240

phone (207) 786-8235

fax (207) 786-8282

email ealcorn@bates.edu