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		<title>Environment and Homelessness Curriculum Strands</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environment of your World
Curriculum Strands:
Conservation

Bird Conservation
Invasive Species 
Alternative Energy 
Horticulture 
Green Practices 
Include design challenges in all substrands 
Community Service: Adopt-a-Highway, Volunteering at gardens, presentations on being green, awareness on saving energy at home and recognizing hazardous waste and waste disposal methods, improvement projects, bird counts, recycling

 
 
 
Homelessness
Curriculum Strands:
On Your Own
 

Real-life problem solving
Finding a Job
Job behavior
Planning for future
18 is not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New ideas and connections with other Learn and Serve Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheri and I are at the February follow-up meeting of the grantees for the Learn and Serve grant.  Right now we are going around the room and saying what needs we Developmental grantees have and seeing what the Model grantees (the experienced folks) can offer us.  While they are talking, I&#8217;m getting too excited to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fleshing out the Service Learning Curriculum &#8211; Teen Pregnancy and Parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lchervenak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teen Pregnancy and Parenting 
Curriculum Strands:
Sociology of Teen Pregnancy and Parenting

Culture of poverty, cycles of &#8230;.behavior
History of teen pregnancy &#8211; why it&#8217;s changed
Media impact on teen pregnancy and parenting
Community Service:  Website development; Walk-a-thon for awareness

Relationships

How to have a conversation with your boyfriend/girlfrien
Teen dating violence
Abuse (from parents, boyfriend, others) &#8211; dealing with it, what is it?
Self-esteem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steering Committee Begins Planning the Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The steering committee gathered all of the information that we have collected thus far and pulled them together into the three topics for the project.  We decided to organize the project into a three-year progression.  The first year we would implement the Teen Pregnancy and Parenting topic with several community service projects.  The second year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second &#8216;Think Tank&#8217; gets more specific</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this meeting, we looked at our overarching theme of &#8220;Taking care of ourselves, taking care of others&#8221; and the three topics that we are interested in, Teen Pregnancy and Parenting, Homelessness, and the Environment and we brainstormed potential community service projects that would fit in these topics.  The group came up with so many, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizing the Ideas into a Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We welcomed two new members to the steering committee.  Vicki Glorioso, GOAL Academic Coach, and Chris M, GOAL student, joined the team.  
This steering committee meeting was a tough one in a lot of ways.  We had lots of ideas and we wanted to try to clump as many of them together as we could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First &#8220;Think Tank&#8221; is swimming in spirit and spaghetti!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Students, teachers, administrators and community members came together to begin planning GOAL&#8217;s service learning program.  The first step that we worked on tonight was determining what community needs and issues we all felt strongly about.  
It was great how everyone pitched in to make the evening a success.  JOG students from Delaware County manned a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steering Committee Forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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The members of the steering committee named in the grant were:


Laura Chervenak, Director of GOAL
Cheri Nolting, Assistant Director of GOAL
Kevin Rickly, 9-12 Assistant Director of GOAL
Cara Seibel, GOAL Academic Coach
Fred Fairchild, GOAL Academic Coach
Shannon Wellin, GOAL JOG Teacher
Suzi Lyle, GOAL JOG Teacher
Tish Jenkins, JOG Regional Director
Chris Pigman, MOESC Director of Education

At this first meeting, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve gotten a grant!!</title>
		<link>http://goallearnandserve.edublogs.org/2008/07/10/weve-gotten-a-grant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, I received an email from Charlotte Jones-Ward from the Ohio Department of Education asking for more information about a grant application I submitted this spring.  This was a good sign &#8211; they were THINKING about giving us money.  So I did my best to encourage Charlotte to trust us with the funds by telling [...]]]></description>
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