CEDAR RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL / AUGSBURG COLLEGE
PARTNERSHIP TIMELINE
1993
- Cedar Riverside Community
School (CRCS) charter proposal approved by state board of Education
- Augsburg faculty serve on
first CRCS school board.
1994
- CRCS receives Augsburg freshmen
completing City Service Projects. This first year program has continued to
present.
- Augsburg Education students
begin tutoring at the CRCS. This continues today.
1995
- Augsburg awarded funding from
the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) for Time Fragments Art and Oral
History project in which Augsburg History students interviewed Cedar
Riverside neighborhood seniors and then worked with students at CRCS to
depict the seniors stories in drawings and paintings.
The art work was exhibited in the
community.
- CRCS hosts Augsburg
service-learning scholar for one year. Scholar serves as liaison between
CRCS and Augsburg student organizations recruiting volunteers for CRCS.
1996
- Augsburg hosts CRCS on campus
for the first ÒKids Come to CampusÓ event. This is now an annual event and
includes other K-12 schools.
- CRCS contracts with Augsburg
to employ Augsburg work-study student in administrative office.
1997
- Partnership awarded mini-grant
for Art and Social Change by MN Campus Compact
- Music Program established in
which Augsburg students enrolled in Piano Pedagogy course teach piano
lessons to Cedar Riverside Community School students. This program has
continued up to the present year.
- Band Project which involved
2-4 Augsburg Music Education majors teaching private music lessons to 9-12
graders.
- Photography project which was
an Independent Study course for an Augsburg Art major. She taught basic
photography to 9-12 grade students.
1998
- Augsburg Health and Physical
Education students raise funds to purchase sports equipment for CRCS.
- An Augsburg Education faculty member
receives Richard Green scholarship allowing her course-release time to
teach at CRCS.
- Partnership awarded funding
from Medtronic to purchase portable Foss science labs which enable
Augsburg education students to teach physics to 7th and 8th
grade students at CRCS. This program has continued up to the present year.
- Poetry project in which
Augsburg English students helped CRCS students write poems and record
them.
1999
- Augsburg hosts a full-time ÒGet
ReadyÓ educational outreach liaison who worked with 4th and 5th
graders at CRCS, tutoring and preparing children to think about
post-secondary education. Augsburg hosted a liaison for 3 years.
- Augsburg receives Association
for the Advancement of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) funding to
integrate service-learning in teacher education. As a result of this
grant, a service-learning consultant conducted a staff development seminar
on service-learning at CRCS.
2000
- Partnership awarded funding
from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Teacher Scholar Program
which paid for 5 student teachers in Math and Science.
- Partnership awarded CHESP
grant by the State Dept. of Education to strengthen partnership.
- Augsburg hosts KidÕs with
Disabilities Day with assistance from staff and students at Cedar
Riverside School.
- Begin Annual Fitness Exam
program in which Augsburg students conduct physical exams as part of
Physical Education course.
- Cedar Riverside Community
School adopts service-learning in the curriculum.
- Augsburg recruits Americorps
members to work at CRCS.
2001
- Brandeis University evaluation
team chooses partnership as one of two national models for school
partnerships.
- Partnership awarded funding
from CIC/CAPHE for college first year experience program.
- Augsburg Physical Education
professor teaches spring semester at CRCS.
- Share a story project in
conjunction with Augsburg Journalism course, CRCS students compile book of
stories and present a copy to Dean of College to be placed in Augsburg library.
2002
- CRCS Assistant Director
represents partnership at national conference, Ò Building partnerships
with College Campuses; Community Perspectives.Ó
- Cedar Riverside Community
School awarded Federal Title VII grant which enables faculty from both
schools to learn about English Language Learners. (ELL)
- Augsburg CSWL staff elected to
CRCS board.
- Augsburg Education students
enrolled in Reading Methods course create books with CRCS students that
culturally specific and at appropriate reading levels for K-8 students.
2003
- Cedar Riverside Community
School receives recognition as Service-Learning Leader School by the MN Dept.
of Education
- E Entertainment Network videos
partnership for national program to be aired in spring 2004.
- Augsburg soccer team hosts CRCS
on campus for soccer clinic.
- CRCS is awarded Learn and
Serve funding through the State Dept. of Education.