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Using Service-Learning To Improve Attitudes And Behaviors Towards Recycling In A Secondary School, Sharriah B. Armstrong
Using Service-Learning To Improve Attitudes And Behaviors Towards Recycling In A Secondary School, Sharriah B. Armstrong
Theses and Graduate Projects
Can middle schoolers' attitudes and behaviors towards recycling and waste reduction be improve through service-learning? This project was designed to help Crosswinds Middle School realize the school's mission to help students become environmental stewards through a two-week course titled "Eco-Crusaders." During the course, students in grades six to ten were challenged to collaborate and create service learning projects that improve the school's recycling program. Students launched a successful school-wide campaign designed to "make recycling cool." Outcomes were measured by the use of surveys taken at the beginning of the course and repeated at its completion, along with service-learning reflections. Project …
"I Don't Know Where I'D Be If Not For This School": Perspectives Of Students In A Recovery High School About Recovery And Transition To Post-Secondary Settings, Hannah Cushing
Theses and Graduate Projects
This qualitative action research project examines the perspectives of students in a recovery high school in regards to their recovery, family and social needs in school as well as how these needs are involved in their transitions to post-secondary settings. The information gathered through interviews with sfudents is used to make recommendations about how recovery schools could better prepare sfudents for the transition to postsecondary settings.