CBL Course Snapshots for the 2024-2025 Academic Year_万象城体育官方网_万象城体育-【app下载】

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Faculty and Staff, Student Spotlight, Uncategorized, CBL, community-based learning, courses, reflection, student experience

Community-Based Learning (CBL) is a high-impact, culturally responsive pedagogy that empowers students as agents of social change. It builds skills in collaboration, problem-solving, and leadership by linking classroom learning to real-world issues and lived experience.
For faculty, CBL fosters innovation, reflective teaching, and meaningful community engagement. It draws on student creativity and civic passion while grounding course design in equity and relevance.

As educators, CBL helps us connect academic content to the social realities that shape our students’ lives and communities.

Fall 2024

This slide deck (viewable to PCC) includes CBL snapshots of an array of student engagement experiences in Fall 2024, facilitated by instructors in Environmental Studies, Biology, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Multimedia, and Sociology, in collaboration with a wide variety of local community partners. As quotes from student reflections attest, students are eager to make a difference in their communities and enthusiastic about putting course content in action, and these real-world applications, using multiple modes of learning, have transformative effects on student learning, civic participation and future goals.?

“This project and the process was fun and interesting, I definitely learned a lot and I feel like not a lot of people know about certain issues that are going on in the world. I’m very thankful for this opportunity, it opened my eyes and made me realize that we need to start acting now and find ways to stay prepared for what’s coming.““I think that this may be the most interesting and definitely most fun assignment in this class. It was really fun to go back to some of my family’s roots to try and find a species of plant that really does mean the most to us and the way I did this was by getting to talk with my father who is from Mexico and absolutely loves the plants from there but one ended up being the most nostalgic to him, was of course the pitayas that grew from cactuses which is of course what I had to make my project about.”

“I am using my voice & actions to directly impact our state for good. …to bring awareness to issues I am passionate about.”“…the opportunity to learn about earthquake preparedness while engaging with the community is invaluable.”

“I had a blast volunteering to plant trees and shrubs in the community! It was awesome working with great people and turning empty spots into green spaces. Knowing we’re helping the environment and wildlife was the best feeling. Totally worth it!”

“I entered this term and project with a basic understanding of accessibility in media, seeing it as optional additions to digital designs. But through the lessons and discussions, I’ve come to realize that accessibility is not just a nice feature but an essential aspect of design. I’ve gone from seeing accessibility as an afterthought to recognizing it as an essential requirement that should be integrated into every stage of the design process.”