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Community Schoolhouse students help families in need

Students of The Community Schoolhouse participated in two service learning projects to assist local families in need this holiday season.

The school "adopted" two families through the Salvation Army's Adopt-A-Family holiday assistance program. A Holiday Giving Tree was set up at the school with and students selected individual gift ideas for members of the adopted families. Other students contributed cash donations for food purchases. Overall, more than 60 new gifts and assorted food items were distributed to the two families on Dec. 19th.

"I'm impressed with how our students responded to this opportunity to reach out to those in need," said Heather Burns, Community Classroom teacher at The Community Schoolhouse. "Our student 'community' saw this as a personal way of brightening the holiday season for those less-fortunate in the Salem-Keizer local community.

Additionally, Community Schoolhouse students organized a food drive for the Marion Polk Food Share.  The drive collected over 650 lbs of food to help feed local families in need of food assistance. 

"The downtown location of our school is based on the philosophy that the community should serve as a classroom, and that includes the area of service learning," said Burns. "These types of student activities, which are ongoing, foster citizenship skills and a sense of civic pride and responsibility."  

contact: school@communityschoolhouse.org