Just Learning

Education in a Crisis

There is something to be said about reading or watching the news, without any connection to the piece being reported beyond a superficial level. It becomes a regular experience to consume copious figures about horrific topics, especially in trying times like the one we are going through…

Canal Alliance in Crisis Mode

Canal Alliance seems to be fully in a mindset of damage control, which I think is necessary right now. Throughout the interview with Melissa, I was getting the sense that right now, more than any other time, is important. We all feel like the rug has been pulled out from us…

Advocacy Starts with the Individual!

What do you still want or need to know about your community partner’s:

1) Programming

• Services that are provided by NGS outside of tutoring include:
• Medical and Health Support

The Canal Community During Covid-19

I had three main questions that I was curious and concerned about considering the Canal community as a whole. I have not been in contact with them and have not heard many updates specifically about the community. Firstly, what is the most crucial part of the…

Impacts of Covid-19 on the Canal Alliance Community

What I learned from Melissa about the Canal Alliance UP! Program is that the students were given access to technology so that they could continue their education. They gave people who didn’t have an Internet a hotspot that allowed them to…

Community Interview: Shawn (NGS)

After interviewing Shawn, he answered a lot of the questions I had in terms of how Next Generation Scholars works and the backstory behind the organization. I mostly only knew about their services so it was nice to have Shawn go into more detail about his story in…

Currently with NGS

What? Interviewing our community partner proved to be nothing but enlightening. Prior to the interview, I only dipped my feet into a few of the many support programs that they offered. NGS is not only a place where students receive academic help — it is an entire tight-knit community. Shawn…

Keeping Up With Shawn (NGS)

In our group interview with Shawn, the Director of Academics and Admissions at Next Generation Scholars (NGS) located in Downtown San Rafael, we were able to all keep in touch and stay updated amidst the COVID-19 shelter-in-place. In my piece, I will be formatting my findings in…

Impacts of COVID-19 and a Fight for Change in Marin City

What?

During my interview with Mariah, an educator a WHAP and former student from Dominican University of California, I was able to gain some additional information about WHAP and how Ms. Royce’s activist…

Interview With Reading Buddies

From the interview with Diana Lopez, I learned about what the community is doing right now under our current circumstances related to COVID-19. The order to shelter in place was very abrupt, not giving people much time to prepare. With funding from several organizations such…

Canal Alliance Interview

Through the community partner interview and my experiences with them, I was able to learn about the multiple aspects of Canal Alliance. Previously I only really knew about the aspect I volunteered with. My service learning was in their English as second language classes. They provide…

Social Distancing with NGS

Through the community partner interview, I was able to understand that multiple factors make up NGS. Before this interview, I only knew about what I did, which was tutoring and a few other services that were provided. The program not only focuses on the students that are in their…

Community Knowledge: Interview with your partner

Perspective

Perspective is what makes up the realities of the people who experience them in the context of their own, it is everything that encompasses reality. Often, it feels as though our circumstances are natural and unchangeable as we often hold a singular worldview perspective due to our exposure and…

Morally, It Is Clear What Must Be Done

In this article, Rachel Kushner talks about Ruth Gilmore and her work and inspiration as a prison abolitionist. Gilmore states that “It is obvious that the system won’t disappear overnight… So many of these proposed remedies don’t end up diminishing the system…