COMMUNITY SERVICE AT WILSON PREP

Community service is an important part of the Aspire secondary curriculum. Students in low-income communities typically tend to be the recipients of service learning rather than its donors. "Service learning" allows students to see themselves as pro-active agents in serving local community needs, reversing the donor-recipient relationship typical in under-resourced communities. Service learning also offers opportunities for authentic learning – connecting academic instruction to real-world experiences – which can be very helpful for students with stressful family situations who may question the value of academics in isolation.

Wilson Prep 10th graders are providing homework help at local elementary schools and after-school programs. For each of them, this will be their second year at their placements. Next year they’ll begin their internships with local companies. Here are a few of them:

THANK YOU

Claudia Valencia, Brookfield Library

“Teaching kids from different races has taught me that all people are basically the same”.
Myra Tejeda,
East Oakland Boxing Association

“I learned that I could help others do better in life, and help my community”.
Luis Zamora,
Brookfield Library

“It’s great to teach the next generation what you know and help them understand what they’re learning in school”.
Tomas Marquez,
Stonehurst Elementary School

“I learned to be more patient. It took the kids a whole year to trust me, but I wasn’t willing to give up. Now they trust me, and I can really help them”.

Leadership Circle

 

 Supporters

Donors
California Department of Education
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Reed Hastings & Patty Quillin
New Schools Venture Fund
Stuart Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation 		 Ashoka
Cathy Beysa (Granite Ventures
Families for Academic Excellence
Flora Family Foundation
Grousbeck Family Foundation
Hedco Foundation
James & Rebecca Morgan Family Foundation
Peninsula Community Foundation
Sam Kingsland
Software Holding
K & F Baxter Family Foundation
UPS Community Council
Vargas Marketing
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Westly Foundation		 Anonymous (1)
Emek Beracha
K & L Berryman
Chris & Jennifer Boyd
Center for Policy Studies
General Mills Box Tops For Education
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
CKA Association
William A Dean
East Bay Community Foundation
Matthew Edalgo
Keith & Nicole Goldstein
Kmart
Land’s End
J. Lang
Edward Lempert
Meta Program
Burton & DeeDee McMurtry
Pacific Gas & Electric
Mark G Parnes
Pipe Vine Inc.
RAND
Harold & Andrea Rosenblume
C Shelton
S. Sikkema
Summit Families
Target Take Charge of Education
Jay & Arelene Tenenbaum
T. Tefertiller
The Spotlight Foundation
J. Mark Vanness
Gabriel Vicuna
Visual Sports Network
Wal-Mart Foundation
Washington Mutual
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Kelly Wilson
Sirian Wong
 
Sponsors
Anonymous (4)
John & Ann Doerr
The Draper Foundation
Bernard Lee Schwartz Foundation
Bruce & Elizabeth Dunlevie
Beth & Mike Hunkapiller
Hewlett-Packard Company
Latham & Watkins
McKinsey & Company
Silver Giving Foundation
Stanford University
Steve & Carol Poizner
Poizner Family Foundation
Pisces Foundation
Sand Hill Foundation
TOSA Foundation
Walter S. Johnson Foundation
Steven Merril

Friends
AlphaSmart, Inc.
Jeff Bezos
Ceres Women’s Club
Creative Child Care
Erin Crysdale
Matthew Edalgo
Sophia Fong
Lowell Johnson
Graphics Resource
Beth Injasoulian
Intertex General Contractors
Bob & Joanne Kagle
Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff, Tichy & Mathiason
Lifetouch
Lisa Friedman
Morris Stulsaft Foundation
Liz Nguyen
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
Peggy Searcy
Reach-A-Star Foundation
Queen Taylor
Turner Construction 

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