S.T.E.P.S Program 2013
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By Molly Meczywor and Kalie Lynn French
Summer Transition
Educational Program for
Success
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Literacy Skills: Strategies for Success
Curriculum
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
Service Learning
Career Exploration
Social-Emotional Skills
FOCUS: 5 – Strive to Be a 5
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Attendance
Participation in Service Learning Project
Completion of all Academic Assignments
Complete work in Success Binder
Complete a Final Project
5 Criteria
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Group of up to 40 students (36 total)
Three Weeks, 8:30-1:30 with lunch provided
Transportation provided
Week 1: SKILLS and OBSERVATION
Week 2: RESEARCH and PLAN
Week 3: ACT, REFLECT, DEMONSTRATE
Structure:
Week 1: SKILLS,
OBSERVE, INVESTIGATE
Quote and Build-aLearner
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Activity…..
OBSERVE: What is a
community? Use graphing
to represent results.
What skills do I need to
get into college? Off to
MCLA!
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Students will analyze data collected
throughout the week and create a bar graph to
represent assigned prompt.
Week 1 Assessment
Week 2: WHAT ARE OUR
COMMUNITY NEEDS?
INVESTIGATE/PLAN/AC
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Service Silent Activity –
what’s important to us?
PROJECTS:
Recycling
Water Quality
Food Lunch Program
Park Clean Up
Homeless Animals/Animal Care
Looking at
solutions….Group Work
Students will write a
Persuasive Letter to a person
of importance relating to
project
 Students will create a
Rhetorical poster relating to
project
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Week 2 Assessments:
Week 3:
Reflect/Demonstrate
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“I’ve gotten better with the groups and that’s
thanks to the STEPS program. STEPS helped
me in a lot of ways. Like I wasn’t really a good
listener and that’s to the whole ‘active listening’
thing I’ve gotten better. We learned how to be
polite. They taught us that it’s important to
think about our future. I can be a better person
and now I believe in myself.”
Student Reflection
Final Project
Recommendations for
Service Projects
Red Sox Game!!! (We’ve
gotta have fun, too)
STEPS Celebration Fair
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Week 3 Assessment:
100% Graduation Rate
Feedback from parents: “This program made my
son more focused…..he looked forward to being
here.”
Observed students ability to communicate with
others’
Student reflection: “Active Listening is going to
help me in class.”
Feedback from Community Partners: “The kids
really showed growth this summer!”
Final Successes:
Service learning:
-A method of teaching and a way of
learning
-Students use academic knowledge and
skills to meet real community needs
through service connected to their
curriculum
Needs and Problems:
Observed, Brainstormed
and Created a survey
Investigations:
-Survey
-Speaker: Jen
Munoz
-And volunteered
at the Berkshire
food project
Research Solutions:
• School wellness
policy – Do we
have one and how
was it created?
• USDA guidelines
• Nutritional values
• Speaker: Corey
Nicholas, Food
Service Director for
NAPS – Q & A
Project ideas:
• Create a suggestion box for
café
• Buy a sanitizer dispenser
• Create more surveys to find
out what foods kids liked in
summer
Plan/Implement the project:
• Worked in small groups to analyze data
and make recommendations for Corey
• Created a suggestion box and suggestion
cards
survey
question 1
question 2
question 3
question 4
question 5
question 6
question 7
question 8
question 11
Yes
No
12
20
8
21
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24
10
16
10
4
5
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26
REFLECTION:
-This Power Point!
-Four Square Reflection Paper
-Group Discussions
-Data Collection
-Listening to other students’
comments
-Hearing feedback from Corey about
our project
Curriculum:
-Math: We analyzed data and created
bar graphs
-We worked together in groups
-Used Math to build a suggestion box
- Science: researched healthy foods
What I think:
I think the project that we did was
very interesting. I thought it was
interesting because we got to ask students
and faculty what they thought of the school
food and even if they ate school lunch. Our
group volunteered at the Berkshire Food
Project to see what other organizations
consider healthy and we put food in bags to
give to people who need food. We created
suggestion boxes for the cafeteria.