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Center for Civic Engagement About the Center for Civic Engagement Center for Civic Engagement Mission:
The Lick-Wilmerding Center for Civic Engagement marshals and leverages our community’s knowledge, networks and resources to benefit the common good. We do so, in part, by creating meaningful service learning opportunities and convening service-related conversations among teachers and students at LWHS and across the country.
Lick-Wilmerding develops public/private partnerships and programming with the following objectives in mind:
- To create meaningful links between the curriculum and service whereby students learn by doing and leading,
- To enhance students’ development as stewards of the planet
- To address pressing community needs and serve as a model for other independent schools to engage in partnerships to this end
- To support and expand the entire Lick community’s sense of social responsibility
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| Center for Civic Engagement The LWHS Center For Civic Engagement was created to institutionalize and extend Lick-Wilmerding’s public purpose mission. Since 1988, this mission has expanded exponentially at the same time that its focus has sharpened. As a nationally-acclaimed private school with public purpose and the originator of that description, we are committed to marshaling an ample portion of our knowledge, networks and resources to benefit the public good. We recognize that private schools have both the opportunity and the obligation to make a difference in their communities. And we do so because it is the right thing to do. The Center For Civic Engagement (CCE) has three overlapping raisons d’etre:
- to increase student opportunities for hands-on, community-based learning through community service and curricular service learning,
- to leverage our institutional capacity by developing and sustaining innovative public-private partnerships that improve the lives of young people,
- to initiate and propel a national “ripple effect,” by encouraging and assisting other private schools in making civic engagement central to their mission.
Under the direction of founding Executive Director, Eva Frank, and with the assistance of L-W Head of School, Dr. Al Adams, and Director of Service Learning & Leadership, Ravi Lau, the CCE welcomes your interest in civic engagement. We view this compelling lens on schools and schooling as an inspiring portal to student learning and an ennobling vision of what a 21st Century private school can be. We hope you agree, and we look forward to assisting you and your school as your public purpose journey progresses. |
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| Service Learning & Leadership is the nexus of Lick’s community service, multicultural and leadership programs. By fostering dialogue, awareness and action, and supporting the school’s mission of being a “private school with public purpose,” civic engagement and service learning throughout the school and broader community are encouraged.
Service Learning & Leadership faculty, Ravi Lau, Director; Thelonious Johnson, Multicultural Programs Coordinator; and Randy Barnett, Dean of Students, collectively supervise student council, the student club program and the community service program. While each strand has its own direction and purpose, there is continual opportunity for overlap and collaboration.
Individual students, small groups or clubs can seek support from the Center for a variety of civic engagement ideas and resources, from off campus volunteer projects to producing their own all school assembly around a topic or theme of interest. Ravi Lau works in collaboration with students and advisors to help create the best plan for civic action.
Any students seeking to become more engaged or to get other students involved are encouraged to stop by the Center to share ideas and take action. |
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