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Community
2007 California Promising Practices
Others First
Orinda
Intermediate School
Program
Overview
Mission Statement:
To remind our students that a complete education includes a sense
of community.
Program Goals and Objectives:
Build a supportive school community; encourage altruism, kindness,
and humanitarianism.
Involve and connect students to other students, adults, and non-profit
organizations.
Provide all students with opportunities for success; build self-esteem;
teach leadership, responsibility and citizenship. Develop skills
in cooperation, collaboration and teamwork.
Improve the perception/focus that OIS is an open, active, involved
and nurturing school.
The Program has two components:
Community outreach - OIS students performing community
service activities.
Monthly student lunch meetings which provide a forum to
discuss community service and issues related to it (students receive
an hour of community service credit for attending the meetings).
These meetings also involve performing community service activities
(i.e. wrapping presents for the needy, making cards for cancer patients).
Criterion for Student Involvement:
We want all students to be involved in this program and take advantage
of volunteer opportunities. We expect that students will be positive
and helpful, and honor their individual commitments with the community
organizations.
Scope of Others First Activities:
The OF program encourages activities that directly serve others.
The program supports charitable, altruistic and humanitarian activities.
Monthly organized activities through the program must be non-partisan
and secular in nature (although many are associated with non-secular
organizations). Service activities performed on campus or at other
District schools are also counted.
The program tracks two different types of activities:
Parents Club sponsored activities
Activities planned and arranged through the program and offered
to the entire student body. A sign-up form for these activities
is posted online and is also distributed to the students through
their homeroom class at the beginning of each month for the following
month. Sign-ups are due by the 3rd week of the month. Organized
activities are scheduled October through May of each school year
(no organized activities in September or June).
Independent Activities
Activities arranged independently by students and their families.
Suggestions for Independent activities are distributed at the monthly
student meetings and advertised on the website.
Tracking of Hours:
Any amount of time spent performing an activity counts as volunteer
hours for the program. This includes any preparation work and travel
time.
It is our hope that students will learn, through their own experience,
the intrinsic rewards associated with being a volunteer. All students
participating in the program are treated to an end of the year party.
Hours are accepted for activities that occur during the year June
1st through May 31st. June, July and August independent volunteer
hours apply toward the next school year. Each student participating
in the program receives a certificate at the end of the year listing
their activities throughout the year.
The Others First Community Service Program was inaugurated at Orinda
Intermediate School in January of 2002
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