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Local Community
Events
If you are
interested in volunteering, please use the contact information
provided or come into the Service Learning Center (STCN-111)
Valencia Campus, for more information.
7,000 Santa Clarita Valley students …
608 Classroom visits …
91 School buses …
1 World Record!
Rock the rhythm:
beat the odds
May 18, 2012
Building the whole child for the whole community
  
College of the Canyons, Remo, Inc. and every 6th and 7th Grade
student in the Santa Clarita Valley will celebrate an innovative
partnership to celebrate the importance of the arts.
You are invited
to participate in a special “Beat the Odds” training session for
COC Service Learning students on September 10th from
9am-1pm at College of the Canyons.
Once trained, you will be invited to teach the fun, hands-on
curriculum to local 6th and 7th Grade
students. You will be part of a special team of trainers that
will help teach all our SCV 6th and 7th
Graders how to “Beat the Odds”.
What is Beat the Odds?
Beat the Odds integrates activities from contemporary drum circles and group
counseling to facilitate the learning of skills such as focusing
and listening, empathy and gratitude, team building, leadership,
expressing feelings, and managing anger/stress. It is inclusive,
culturally relevant, and does not bear the stigma of therapy.
Beat the Odds is designed for delivery by facilitators who have
no musical experience.
Through the “Beat the Odds” program, you will:
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Train with professional program facilitators from Remo drums,
UCLA and COC
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Learn tools to engage the social, emotional and artistic
well-being of children
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Receive hands-on facilitation experience with local 6th and 7th
Graders
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Join the PAC K12 Arts Education Outreach Initiative
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Earn valuable professional growth hours as well as Service
Learning credit
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Receive a distinguished certificate of participation
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Help break a Guiness Book of World’s Records for the largest
drum circle
There are two ways you can participate!
Rock the Rhythm: Beat the Odds is a year-long program with a
culmination event on May 18, 2012.
You can sign up with the Beat the Odds team for fall semester or
for the entire school year!
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Option One – fall
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Option Two – fall and
spring semesters |
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Participate in the mandatory training at COC on
September 10th from 9am to 1pm
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Participate in the mandatory training at COC on
September 10th from 9am to 1pm |
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Commit to two half-day times where you will work with 6th
or 7th grade children in their classrooms
during the fall semester |
Commit to two half-day times where you will work with 6th
or 7th grade children in their classrooms
during both fall and spring semesters
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Participate in the Rock the Rhythm: Beat the Odds
culmination/celebration when we break the world’s record
for a youth drum circle.
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The Beat the Odds team of trainers will receive special
recognition at this event.
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If you are interested in participating in this amazing once in a
lifetime opportunity, please contact the Service Learning Center
or your teacher.
UNITED WE SERVE
UNITED WE SERVE
The President is calling on all Americans to participate in our
nation’s recovery and renewal by serving in our communities.
There are many ways to get involved. America’s new foundation
will be built one community at a time – and it starts with you.
Looking for a way to serve that's right for you?
Check out the following websites for National, State, and Local
volunteer opportunities.
Serve.gov (http://www.serve.gov)
is a portal for you and all Americans to find your own ways to
serve in your own communities. Just choose whatever interests
you – and type in your zip code to see what opportunities our
partner organizations have in your area. Americans are putting
their own country back on the right track; be a part of it.
CaliforniaVolunteers.org (http://californiavolunteers.org/index.php)
CaliforniaVolunteers is the state office that manages programs
and initiatives aimed at increasing the number of Californians
engaged in service and volunteering. Through this innovative web
site, individuals and families can find more than 45,000
volunteer opportunities throughout the state involving the arts,
education, animals, disaster
preparedness, the environment, and
other areas of interest.
VolunteerInSCV.org (http://volunteerinscv.org/)
At this web site, you’ll find the HandsOn Santa Clarita portal
which provides support and resources to build non-profit
capacity and connect local non-profit organizations with
volunteers, groups, and businesses to meet the needs of our
community. They also produce The Guide, a
volunteer’s handbook, available at the Service-Learning Center
in STCN-111.
SCV
Education Foundation
Read with Me!
The SCV Education Foundation
is seeking volunteers to work with students in local elementary
schools to improve their reading skills.
As a READ WITH ME! literacy volunteer, you will work with
students one-on-one or in small groups to assist with improving
reading skills such as word accuracy, fluency, and reading
comprehension. You may also be assisting with math, writing and
other projects. With your assistance students will improve their
reading skills and greatly benefit from receiving individualized
attention. You will have the opportunity to impact a child’s
life.
Volunteers will receive guidance that includes suggestions on
reading with children and information regarding their school.
To receive more information about READ WITH ME!, contact Renee
Marshall at College of the Canyons
Renee.Marshall@canyons.edu
The SCV Education Foundation READ WITH ME! program is flexible,
but we would like to stress that consistency is very important
to the students we assist. We ask our volunteers to commit for
several months, one or two days a week for at least two hours a
day.
The READ WITH ME! program does not run every week.
PLEASE CONTACT THE SERVICE-LEARNING OFFICE FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AT (661) 362-3231 OR EMAIL
SERVICELEARNING@CANYONS.EDU
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