Program in Systemic School Reform
Senior Projects Initiative
The School District of Philadelphia is ramping up the quality and academic rigor associated with the "Senior Project" and PHENND is trying to match each participating school with a university partner. These partners will provide project mentors and other resources to help the schools and students succeed.
Service-Learning Support Organizations - SLSO
PHENND co-convenes a round table of K-12 service-learning organizations. The group disseminates best practices, shares lessons learned, and advocates for improved and expanded service-learning support at the School District of Philadelphia. Past accomplishments include: creating a common definition of service-learning, producing service-learning curriculum supplements for the new core curriculum, and hosting the Atlantic Regional Service-Learning Conference (2004).
Ford Foundation Initiative (2000-2002)
With funding from the Ford Foundation, and in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, PHENND worked to deepen partnerships between higher eds, their local school partners and community partner organizations. The project included substantial professional development (including academic credit) for teachers in order to implement a community problem solving approach.
For more information about any of these initiatives, please contact Hillary Kane at hillarya@pobox.upenn.edu