American Youth Leadership Program: Learning to Serve...Serving to Learn

2014

Enables high school students with and without disabilities, and their educators, from the U.S. and Costa Rica to learn and serve together while enhancing their cultural understanding, global competency, and leadership skills. This inclusive service learning project pairs 33 students - 12 of whom have disabilities - from the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley (a public high school on the grounds of the Minnesota Zoo) with 17 students from a Liceo de Pos high school in Costa Rica's Alajuela region. The students from Minnesota and Costa Rica study environment and climate change, and are developing a collaborative service learning projects to address a need in those areas. In July and August 2014, the Minnesota students will spend three weeks in Costa Rica working with the students there on their service learning collaborative project. The project takes the inclusive service learning program developed at ICI and applies it to a new cultural context, thus expanding its inclusive component to another level of diversity.

Performing Research or Evaluation, Continuing Education/Community Training

Education & Early Intervention, Other - Cultural Diversity, Other

Professionals and Para-Professionals, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN, General Public

Disadvantaged Circumstances

International

Federal

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