friday, OCtober 23
Theme: Education
Partner Spotlight: NativityMiguel Buffalo and North Park Community School
Service Challenge Objective: K-12 students
Donation Suggestion: The Teacher's Desk
Mission Statement
The NativityMiguel Middle School is a faith-based middle school transforming the lives of underserved students in a secure and nurturing environment on single gender campuses: the St. Monica Campus for girls and the St. Augustine Campus for boys.
In partnership with our families, we deliver a uniquely effective education that includes an extended school day and school year, dedicated and caring teachers, personal mentoring and continuing support through high school graduation.
Since September 2004, the NativityMiguel Middle School of Buffalo has provided middle school students the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty through education. Many students had failed at school and were ready to give up. Today, students at our St. Monica Campus for young women and St. Augustine Campus for young men embrace the programs they need to prepare for success in high school and beyond. Our graduates now attend many of the area’s top public and private high schools and are continuing on to college.
community-based learning partnership: nativitymiguel
"The Canisius College CBL students at NativityMiguel Middle School tutor students at both the girl’s school, St. Monica, and the boy’s school, St. Augustine. Tutoring includes strengthening reading and writing skills, supporting ELL students, working on science fair projects, and completing homework. In addition, Canisius College students worked with teachers to create and implement activities to address the social and emotional needs of the students. Their role at NativityMiguel is best described as supplementing the work of the faculty and staff to meet the many and diverse needs of the students."
-Susan Cain, Volunteer Coordinator
Vision
At North Park Community School, all stakeholders will work together to ensure that our curriculum is rigorous and relevant, our instruction is differentiated, our environment is positive, our entire community is engaged and our staff is supported to provide an instructional environment where learning and growing are paramount. As a result, our students will be empowered to acquire knowledge, show empathy towards others, become life-long learners and contribute positively to their community.
Mission
TOGETHER we will create and nurture a lifelong love of knowledge.
community-based learning partnershiP: north park
"The Canisius College Partnership has proven to be invaluable at North Park Community School. The college students work directly with our students and families during the after school program, as well as during our Saturday Academy program. Before working with our students, the college students are given a list of programs to support our students, based on the college students' personal interest. Some enrichment programming and workshops that the college students engage in promote learning, exploration, critical thinking, and youth development through our Children's Book Club, our STEAM gym, the Diversity Room, and various arts and crafts activities. The Community-Based Learning students have also helped with fund raising, advertisement and promotions, and hosting a food drive on campus for our school."
-Megan Lewis, Community School Navigator.
school partnerships
Canisius currently supports local schools with a variety of initiatives, including after school tutoring and STEM enrichment programs, hands-on environmental education and outreach, and creative writing workshops. We have 45 school partners, 19 are student-teacher placement destinations for education majors from our School of Education and Human Services.
The Western New York Teacher Residency Program trains teachers for placement in urban schools by pairing targeted course work with structured field experience under the mentorship of master teachers.
Service challenge
Record yourself reading a children's book or a poem. The Canisius Library has a curriculum center filled with children's books, games and activities for your use.
Record a wellness work out for children.
Record a public service annoucement ( a song, a dance, a poem) for children discussing safety protocols for COVID-19.
Record yourself singing/ dancing to a children's song.
POST your videos to YouTube and share the link with us at grundtic@canisius.edu, so that we can share them with our community partners!
donation suggestion
Donate new school supplies to the Teacher's Desk, particularly glue sticks, small tissue packs, pens, and pencils.
The Teacher’s Desk, located on Northampton St., is a store where teachers shop free for books, school supplies, and teacher resources for students in their classrooms. Its mission is to distribute free school supplies to disadvantaged students, to encourage teachers, and to provide purpose through volunteerism.
Watch the brief video below to learn more about the Teacher's Desk and all that they are doing to provide resources to teachers and students in Buffalo!
educational resources
Interested in educating yourself further on our education system? Consider checking out the following resources below!
The Lottery, a film about the New York City charter school lottery, on Amazon Prime, VUDU, and Apple TV
Beyond Measure, movie on Amazon Prime
Most Likely to Succeed, movie on Amazon Prime