Service Learning
Community engagement and service activities range from direct service, such as native plant conservation and food distribution; indirect service, such as toiletry drives and community asset mapping; and advocacy through letter-writing and campus-based awareness campaigns.
Students connect classroom learning and community experiences through guided reflection, which may take the form of journal writing, discussions, simulation activities, or performing arts. Through service-learning and community engagement, students develop:
- Knowledge about the complexity of social and environmental issues, and the policies, practices, and institutions that shape them.
- Skills to analyze root causes, intersections, and impacts of injustice; synthesize learning from scholarship and direct experience to develop new understandings of injustice; reflect upon their capacities and commitments to work for a more just world; and take informed action to affect positive change.
- Dispositions of empathy, cultural humility, self-efficacy, and civic responsibility that synthesize into a lifelong pursuit of social and environmental justice.
Burke's mission is to educate, encourage and empower girls. Our school combines academic excellence with an appreciation for childhood so that students thrive as learners, develop a strong sense of self, contribute to community, and fulfill their potential, now and throughout life.
Burke's admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.