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Partner Spotlight: Lafayette International Community High School
Service Challenge Objective: Record Yourself Reading a Children's Book
Donation Suggestion: The Teacher's Desk
High School of Buffalo
High School of Buffalo
Lafayette High School is the oldest public school in Buffalo that remains in its original building.
The Internationals Network for Public Schools is a not-for-profit organization that helps to support a network of innovative schools designed for English Language Learners. These schools provide high- quality instruction, so that students are prepared for post-secondary education. To learn more, visit the INPS website here.
School Partnerships
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
Service Challenge: Record yourself reading a Children's Book
Stop by the library from 10 am - 1 pm TODAY to 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. Free doughnuts for participants!
OR record on your own time. 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!
Service Challenge: Adopt A Little Library
Service Challenge: Adopt A Little Library
We have 3 free little libraries that we need to install! Would your club or organization like to adopt one? If you're interested, email Mary Rockwell at rockwel3@canisius.edu.
Service Challenge: Jewish Family Services
Service Challenge: Jewish Family Services
JFS has a variety of ongoing virtual volunteer opportunities available, including pre-recording virtual demonstrations of activities for the Family Support Program clients use with their children; and writing letters to holocaust survivors and other isolated older adults within the Jewish Comunity Care Program. There are also long-term volunteer opportunities available within the Refugee Services Program, including case management assistance and virtual English a New Language mentorship. Interested? Contact Sierra Johnston at sjohnston@jfsbuffalo.org.
Donation Suggestion
Donation Suggestion
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.
Donate new school supplies to the Teacher's Desk, particularly glue sticks, small tissue packs, pens, and pencils.
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!
Engaged Scholarship Presentation
Engaged Scholarship Presentation
Remembering Reading Rainbow Presented By Bridget Brogan
TODAY, April 22 at 3 pm: https://canisius.zoom.us/j/99375557575#success
Educational Resources
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
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