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buildOn Takes Over the Classroom: The Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly...
What if the empowerment through service provided by buildOn’s after-school youth programs was applied to the entire school day? Two Volunteers at the Paint 4 Change Service Event The newly initiated...
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly: Student Store Opens
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Corresponding from the Bronx, where she manages buildOn’s Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly High School, Stephanie Gilman provides buildOn From The Field with...
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly: Sustainability at Bronx Community College
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Banana Kelly's 9th Grade Enters Bronx Community College We’ve touched upon the central goal of buildOn’s Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly in the past: We want...
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly: Internships in the Bronx
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Banana Kelly Student Chavelis Rosario Shares Her Goals for the YEZ School Year. Rosario Interns at Bronx Charter School for the Arts Many of the service learning...
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly: Students Plant Trees in an Abandoned Lot and Gain...
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Students Plan the Tree Planting Project For the last two weeks my blog posts have described specific service learning activities at Banana Kelly’s Youth Engagement...
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly: Students Make Impressionistic Maps that Analyze...
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager The objective of the service learning we complete at Banana Kelly’s Youth Engagement Zone is a challenging one: We seek to engage students who have reason to be...
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The Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly: Urban Farmers in the Bronx Provide...
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Banana Kelly’s 9th grade trip on April 27th took us out of the classroom and into one of a handful of local urban farms that are changing access to healthy food in...
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The Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly:A Transformative Canoe Trip
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager After studying the Bronx River all year, Banana Kelly's 9th grade goes canoeing! “I’m floating on the river! The river I’ve been studying all year!” - Banana Kelly...
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The Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly:Year End Celebration!
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager So many of the students getting awards are those that feel invisible or alienated at school. With the school year winding down, we’re taking the opportunity to...
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The Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly:Going Door to Door to Curb Urban...
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager The YEZ's Students At James Monroe Housing Development School may not be in session, but the Youth Engagement Zone, buildOn’s service learning program at Banana...
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The Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly:Serving Homeless People in...
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager The YEZ Gang Heads to Philadelphia to Feed Homeless People buildOn’s Youth Engagement Zone just finished its 4-week summer program, a series of service projects...
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly:10th Grade Service Learning AddressesCommunity Health...
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Students respond to a prompt about what makes a healthy community buildOn’s Youth Engagement Zone is back in session for the new academic year! We’re very excited...
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly: Surveying the Health of the Bronx
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager A Banana Kelly science student talks to a Bronx resident This year, Banana Kelly’s Youth Engagement Zone is transforming science classes with service learning....
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly:Students Learn About Communities & Themselves in...
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager The Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly has engaged a small part of its senior class this year in local internships that provide service-oriented job experience....
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly: Student Store Update!
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Banana Kelly’s student store opened in March of 2011 as an attempt to give a small group of the school’s students practical work experience and responsibilities in...
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The YEZ at Banana Kelly: Service as An Alternative to Suspension
By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Welcome to the first Youth Engagement Zone blog post of the new year! We’re excited to be back at Banana Kelly High School in the Bronx for the spring semester, and...
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Service Learning in the Bronx:10th Grade Science Classes Empowered byTeen...
10th Graders at Banana Kelly Learn How to Ask the Right Questions By Stephanie Gilman, Program Manager Earlier this year the Youth Engagement Zone at Banana Kelly had the great pleasure of bringing...
View ArticleService Learning in the Bronx:Student Honors MLK Day with Poem
Rahni Davis is a student at Banana Kelly in the Bronx, where buildOn is transforming classrooms with service learning programs. Davis tutors elementary-aged children with buildOn at The Point, and is...
View ArticlebuildOn in the Bronx Celebrates Year of Service Learning With Video Montage
We’re presenting Banana Kelly High School‘s end of year video montage. buildOn staff and students at the Bronx high school are transforming classrooms with service learning programs. As you can see...
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