Food & Friends is a non-profit that makes and delivers food for people across a spectrum of special dietary needs. They prepare and deliver 1500 meals a day in DC, with the help of dozens of volunteers, including kids from Burke. Burke is F&F’s longest partner with a formal service learning program, serving the organization. [...]
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Great friends of Food & Friends
Posted in Community Service on January 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
…How you Can Help…
Posted in Activism, Community, Community Service, David on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently in Assembly David S. showed the school this video that Ellen DeGeneres made about the recent rash of Gay suicides, and GLBT bullying in schools/colleges. You can read more about these events and the political backlash here…(an associated press article) I won’t preach about why this is happening, or comment on the sadness of [...]
What do service and Marvin Gaye have in common?
Posted in Activism, Community Service on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our 9th grade! Last Friday, the whole 9th grade class got together to learn about one of DC’s coolest parks while helping clean it up. Working with Parks and People at their Riverside Center, students learned about DC history while putting in some focused work outside. The 9th grade Service Learning programs asks students to [...]
Burke Grad, Keinyo White ’88 gets a thumbs up in the Post
Posted in Art, Community Service, tagged Art, Community on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Keinyo White has been named RealArtDC Finalist #9. There is an article about him in the Post Metro section today. He is a successful artist, painter, and illustrator. Keinyo now lives in New Zealand, but he also has a studio here in DC where he grew up and attended Burke. His portraiture is amazing! Check [...]
Kick, Click, and SCORE!
Posted in Community, Community Service, Education, Uncategorized on June 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today, the executive director of DC SCORES is begining a fundraising campaign by juggling a soccer ball NON STOP from 7am-7pm until they reach their goal of 130,000. DC SCORES is an after school program for 700 students at 23 DC public and public charter elementary and middle schools. featuring teamwork, leadership, and commitment carried [...]
El Mundialito 2010
Posted in Community Service, Sports, tagged soccer on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, as a warm-up to the fast advancing World Cup, Burke held its first annual El Mundialito Soccer Championship 2010. As you can see from the photos below and at BurkePix, there were several teams wearing the colors of powerful soccer nations, including Brazil, France, Netherlands and Lichtenschlang. You had players of all grades, sizes [...]
Senior Projects: Researching Research in Education
Posted in Activism, Community, Community Service, Senior Projects on May 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Our second senior is Lena Walker, who is doing amazing fieldwork/research exploring education and special needs. Here’s her update: I’ve been meeting some (super) cool people. And I’ve been getting to know a lot about autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities by talking and meeting with parents and students and teachers, and by spending time with [...]
Senior Projects: Use the F.O.R.C.E., Burke
Posted in Activism, Community, Community Service, Senior Projects on May 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
With graduation just days away, all the rites of passages begin…Senior Prank (see below), Senior Trip, Senior Send-off…and now, a new offering: SENIOR PROJECTS! For two weeks after AP’s, seniors can now choose to undertake their own self-designed adventures. In its pilot year, 5 brave seniors have decided to be the pioneers in what will [...]
Service Learning…Let’s get it on!
Posted in Community Service, tagged Community Service on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What does Marvin Gaye have to do with cleaning up the environment? The Burke 9th grade is the link! This past Saturday, 48 9th graders spent their Saturday working with Parks and People (www.washingtonparks.net) to help clean up Marvin Gaye Park in NE DC. You may know that Marvin Gaye grew up in Washington, DC, [...]
Habitat Finishes Strong…
Posted in Community Service on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past Saturday, Burke held its third and final Habitat Build Day. 13 Burke community members (students, parents and staff) showed up as we helped finish the NE lot at 55th and Clay St. It was also special because Hannah Ceja’10 has finished a strong year of leading as president of Habitat @ Burke. We’ve [...]
Burke’s Got Talent (For Doing Good)
Posted in Community Service, Performing Arts, tagged music on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past Friday marked the 3rd and final ‘episode’ of the ’09-’10 season of Burke Talent Shows. The proceeds from Friday’s show went to Rachael’s Women Center. In addition to a great dinner, the performers served up a steamin’ hot stew of: Jazz, blues, rock, bop, hip hop, Toy Story, yo-yo, modal, No. 9 coal, [...]
Our Last Night and Why It’s Important to Keep on Giving to New Orleans.
Posted in Activism, Community Service, Environment, History on March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On our last night in New Orleans, the 19 students and 6 faculty of this year’s Service trip are taking some time to reflect on our experiences. Seeing the lower 9th ward – with some new construction from Habitat for Humanity and the Make it Right Project, but also many houses still in a state [...]
Understanding Katrina and the Levees breaking
Posted in Activism, Community Service, Education, Environment on March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’m writing from the McKendrick-Breaux House, the B&B the 2010 NOLA trip is staying at in the beautiful Garden District. It’s been an amazing trip (i’ll be sure you all get to see some of the 100′s of photos we’ve taken along the way) but I wanted to highlight one event we had yesterday, that [...]
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