Service Learning at Howenstine High Magnet School

Magnet schools are educational settings that have added academic amenities to the regular school curriculum.  They have the same comprehensive scholastic requirements/curriculum as all other TUSD schools but have included extra academic enrichment in their special theme.  The magnet theme at Howenstine is Service Learning.  Our goal is to integrate the values of “community service” through experiential learning and to connect meaningful community service with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility.

Service Learning means a teaching method under which students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that is conducted in and meets the need of a community, is coordinated with the school, helps foster civic responsibility is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students and includes structured time for the students to reflect on the service experience.

Adapted from the National Service Learning Trust 1993