CAEP Annual Reporting Measures

Program Impact in K-12 Students UPRRP 2024-2025

4.1 Program Impact on K-12 Students

Completers mentioned they have been mentors and have promoted the development and learning of their students in areas such as academic achievement, socio-emotional growth, student organizations and leadership, college admissions, and results in competitions and contests where their students have received awards. This indicator developed by the EPP implies that the advice and support that completers provide to their students stimulates their performance inside and outside the classroom and helps them to successfully project themselves outside the school. As a matter of fact, academic and personal emotional achievements were reported the most by completers.

Specific students’ achievements promoted by completers

Contributions to the school or communities:

Developed a reading program with younger and older students
Worked with students to improve their study habits
Discussion forum between Special Education Parents and General Education Teachers
Development of a school garden
Coordinated study programs
Individualized support
Community theatjer productions
Creation of visuals arts methodology and establishment of a Fine Arts program
Integration of photo essays to highlight the role of women in various disciplines

Participation in educational competitions:

Participation in extracurricular activities (Career Day)
STEM area collaboration with nonprofit organizations
Participation in theater productions
Leading student organizations
Implementation of the Project-Based Learning Model
Created a School Photojournalism Club
Science club and Science Fair
Literacy Program
Micro-research project on social issues in Puerto Rico
FBLA Competence

Completers impacting students outside of school and remotely

Tallereando por la Paz

This event took place on March 14, 2024, at the Faculty of Education, UPR-Río Piedras. It was coordinated by two of our completers, Raúl Falcón and Tayna Rivera, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair for Peace. The event featured a series of workshops developed by various individuals, including some of our completers, to explore topics related to our culture, Afro-descendance, and heritage. The event had a significant impact on public school students and other educators. Other completers, such as Denisse Navarro, also participated by bringing her students to the activity.

Some of our completers and their workshops include:

1. Elsa Castro

Voices That Transform: Anti-Racist Language Workshop Trough Poems and Songs

2. Viviana López Ramos

The turban and curly hair, pride of our Afro-descendant heritage.

“I feel extremely proud to have graduated from here, to be able to share with my students, who are almost university students now, my University, share with them my experiences and the invaluable growth this University gave me, both personally and professionally. And I’m hopeful that they will consider this University as an option for them in their new phase of life.” [Denisse Navarro, completer]

“I am extremely happy, and coming here to the campus is like remembering so much, because the University of Puerto Rico is responsible for many changes in me, even the workshop I gave today was: "Curly Hair and the Turban, Pride of My Afro-Descendancy”…So, I am thankful, grateful to this institution… So, at this moment, in this historical context, I reaffirm my values. I still believe in the hostosian and Paulo Freire philosophy. Liberating and transformative education. So, I have a commitment, no matter what is happening outside, in my classroom I am clear about what I came here to do, which is to inspire and motivate my students. Despite everything going on, I want them to feel proud of being Puerto Rican, proud of being Afro-descendants, and that is my mission.” [Viviana López Ramos, completer]

“The event really comes from something we did last year, which were the mini-courses on Afro-descendancy and anti-racism, and the intention has always been that conference spaces, these types of spaces, are usually thought of for teachers or adults. So now, there are spaces where students could choose the workshop they wanted to attend, but for them, for high school students…” [Tayna Rivera, completer]

Articles to be published in Metro

The columns to be published were developed as part of the academic work for the course EDUC 6076, offered by Professor Nellie Zambrana during the January to May 2024 semester. These articles will address adolescence as a stage of transformation, offering well-founded perspectives on various aspects of this period, including emotional, social, and cognitive development of adolescents, the challenges they currently face, and the role of education in their development.

1. Sagar Noble-Delgado: "Social Media and Its Influence on Adolescents"

2. Michelle Morales Santos: "Educating Adolescents Through a Socioemotional Lens"

3. Keila Monegro Huertas: "Well-Being to Be Well: A Healthy Life Starting in Adolescence"

Good Practices of Culture for Peace of Completers Awarded in 2024” by UNESCO Chair for the Peace Education

Some of our completers were selected in the digital magazine Buenas Prácticas de Cultura de Paz. This magazine offers its readers valuable initiatives carried out by selected educators to promote peace. The works of featured in this magazine are initiatives that educate for peace in action, aiming to transform spaces and societies marked by violence into the forms of dignified and supportive coexistence. Below are described the projects and actions our completers did to promote peace in their working places.

1. Bryan Miguel Rivera Medina (Completer-Special Education)

bCalm Box:
Emotions Out of the Box

2. Elsa M. Castro De Jesús (Completer- Social Studies)

Antirracist Karaoke

3. Minuette Rodríguez Harrison (Completer- Natural Sciences/Biology)

Environmental Campaigns:
Transforming Learning with the Earth Charter