3rd grade students at Lumberg engage in a EL project around economics and community (Photo from Lumberg Elementary)
From Lumberg Elementary School:
This Friday, May 3, Lumberg Elementary students will host a community-wide celebration to showcase student-driven service learning projects based on one of their EL Education English Language Arts modules. Students have designed and implemented their service projects through authentic learning opportunities and student microgrants with funds provided by the Expeditionary Learning (EL) Network. Students will present their projects to local community representatives. The kindergarten students will be planting a tree as they are studying the EL module, “Trees are Alive”. First grade students will be building birdhouses with community partners from Home Depot as they are studying, “Bird’s Amazing Bodies”. The second and third grade classes studying the EL module “Protecting Pollinators” have created a pollinator garden in the school courtyard to release their butterflies. Other projects will also be on display.
Community members and parents are invited to attend the event from 9-10:30 am on Friday at Lumberg Elementary (6705 W. 22nd Ave.) and experience the student projects.
This project will be one of nearly 200 projects across the country that commemorate EL Education’s “Better World Day,” a day of student service and civic action to create positive change in their communities. Better World Day is a celebration of students addressing real world issues and engaging in civic action.
Lumberg Elementary is the first and currently only EL Education (Expeditionary Learning) Network school in Jeffco. As an EL Education school, we commit to a focus on improving student learning through our Unified Improvement Plan based on the three Dimensions of Student Achievement: Mastery of knowledge and skills, character, and high-quality student work. As an EL Education school, we are focused on learning that engages students in purposeful work by addressing real world problems. Lumberg is also one of the few EL Education schools in the state of Colorado that has a dual-language program. The Lumberg experience empowers students to work collaboratively and with the latest technologies to apply their learning in ways that contribute to a better world.
About EL Education
EL Education (formerly Expeditionary Learning) creates great public schools where they are needed most, inspiring teachers and students to achieve more than they thought possible. Created over 25 years ago through the collaboration of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Outward Bound, EL Education’s research-based approach challenges and empowers teachers and students. The model focuses on ensuring that all students master rigorous content, develop positive character, and produce high-quality work.
EL Education transforms classrooms in thousands of schools and districts across the country through a unique combination of challenge and joy in learning. Students’ impressive results encompass high academic achievement and college readiness, pride in the mastery of complex, authentic work, and a passion and capacity to contribute to a better world.
EL Education works with all kinds of public schools: district and charter, from pre-K through 12th grade, serving populations that reflect the diversity of our country. It creates powerful resources–including its open-access literacy curriculum–provides masterful coaching and professional development, and shares a portfolio of award-winning, educator-developed materials. One reason for its success: its work is informed by decades of learning in its national network of over 150 high-achieving public schools. For more information, visit www.ELeducation.org.
Joel has been a resident of Edgewater, Colorado with his family since 2012. He is the Executive Director of local education nonprofit Edgewater Collective and Editor of the Edgewater Echo.
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