Storytelling Opportunity with DCPS Connected Schools

Tuesday, January 17th from 10:00am to Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 2:00pm (ET)

About

This project is for students in Community Engaged Scholarship courses that are tasked with telling community partner stories and for community partners to post opportunities for students in storytelling roles to work with the organization. The goal is for this page to be a resource for students and community partners to connect to tell and share their stories. Opportunities for students to work with community partners for their storytelling assignments will be posted under events.  Students should first reach out to community partners to discuss working with the organization.  Once confirmed with the community partner, students can then use the registration link under the posted event to confirm that they will be working with the organization.  Only one student can register for each event posted so make sure to confirm with the community partner first and please only register for an event if you have confirmed you will be working for that organization.  

Please report impacts to your course Give Pulse group rather than this group.

In fall 2019, DCPS launched the Connected Schools initiative, DCPS’ full-service community school model that transforms schools into community hubs to meet students and families’ needs in and out of the classroom. Just a few months later, schools across the country went virtual and the city shutdown due to the pandemic. Connected Schools had to prioritize the most urgent needs of their communities, with one of the highest needs being food resources. Connected Schools partnered with community organizations like Martha’s Table, DC Food Project, and Capital Area Food Bank to provide grocery distributions to ensure that families had what they needed, serving thousands of families throughout the 19-20 and 20-21 school years. Connected Schools Managers, who lead the implementation of the community school model in each school, worked with students and families in their community to ensure that they could access these resources, often delivering items directly to families’ homes.



As schools transitioned back to in-person learning, food resources have continued to be a need in school communities. Most of the Connected Schools are in Wards 7 and 8, where there has historically been a lack of access to fresh food resources – 51% of the District’s food deserts are located in Ward 8, which has only one full-service grocery store. To help address this ongoing need, Connected Schools established food security resources at all 11 Connected Schools in School Year 21-22 through partnerships with Martha’s Table, DC Food Project, Capital Area Food Bank, CRISP Farmers Market, Kids Eat Free, United Way, and Amazon. The services range from monthly pop-up markets and food pantries to weekend food bags. By partnering with community organizations, Connected Schools continue to find sustainable ways to address food insecurity for students and families.

contact: abigail.hable@k12.dc.gov

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