Description
Provide Triton-led tutoring for underserved P-12 students.
Partners at Learning
The Partners at Learning program is UC San Diego's largest service-learning program providing opportunities for undergraduate students to work with local underserved P-12 students and schools while earning course credit and gaining crucial real-world experience. PAL service-learning courses provide students with an introduction to theoretical and practical issues in P-12 education by incorporating both academic work and fieldwork. Every year, PAL works with thousands of P-12 students on an individual basis to provide mentoring and tutoring at more than forty area schools, contributing over 20,000 volunteer hours. This spring, the PAL program rapidly converted its service-learning, practicum-centered courses to a new remote-learning format without losing the community connections and field experiences that make the PAL Program so meaningful. In addition to remote tutoring and mentoring, UC San Diego PAL students were able to assist teachers with technical issues, design remote-lessons, create educational and wellness videos, lead arts lessons, participate in mindfulness activities, create video games, and use virtual visits and other online resources to connect with our local communities. Remote learning also opened the door to new local and national partnerships. PAL began working with Homes for the Homeless, a New York City organization committed to using a family-based, child-centered, education-focused approach to addressing family homelessness. Through the organization, PAL students served as mentors and tutors to homeless K-12 students. PAL students also wrote letters to incarcerated youth in Louisiana prisons, contributed artwork to a neighborhood project, worked with families through a local non-profit, and worked directly with parents to help engage their children in academic activities. Your donations will support impactful Triton-led educational opportunities like these for high need P-12 schools throughout San Diego and beyond.