Program Planning and Community Partner Outreach
Date Range: January 1 – January 15, 2025
Focus Area: Plan the service learning projects and map them to relevant academic disciplines
🔹 SayPro Tasks to Be Done
1. Review SayPro’s Educational Framework
- Task: Review SayPro’s academic and service-learning framework to ensure alignment with current education priorities and curriculum outcomes.
- Details:
- Identify academic focus areas (e.g., Social Sciences, Environmental Studies, Business, Health, Arts, STEM).
- Ensure service learning is aligned with competency development, skills training, and curriculum-integrated learning.
- Deliverables: Updated service-learning framework reference guide.
2. Define Service Learning Project Themes
- Task: Develop a list of potential project themes that address real community needs and align with educational disciplines.
- Examples:
- Environmental Science: Community clean-up and recycling awareness campaigns.
- Business Studies: Entrepreneurship workshops with local youth.
- Health Sciences: Health and hygiene awareness in clinics or schools.
- Social Sciences: Oral history and storytelling with elders in the community.
- Information Technology: Basic computer skills training at a community center.
- Deliverables: Thematic list of 10–15 project concepts with short descriptions.
3. Community Needs and Academic Relevance Mapping
- Task: Match community needs (identified during outreach) with relevant academic disciplines.
- Process:
- Use outreach data to identify specific community challenges.
- Cross-reference those with academic subject areas.
- Identify dual outcomes: community benefit + student learning.
- Deliverables: Community-Academic Mapping Matrix (organization, need, academic subject, project idea).
4. Design Sample Project Outlines
- Task: Develop at least 3–5 detailed sample service learning project outlines for internal and external use.
- Each Outline Includes:
- Project title and description
- Community partner/organization
- Target beneficiaries
- Academic discipline linkage
- Learning outcomes for participants
- Duration and scope
- Deliverables: Project Outline Templates in digital format (Word/PDF).
5. Stakeholder Feedback Loop
- Task: Share draft project outlines with key stakeholders (educators, SayPro staff, selected community partners) for review and feedback.
- Method: Short virtual meetings or feedback surveys.
- Purpose: Ensure feasibility, alignment, and clarity of expectations for all involved.
- Deliverables: Feedback report with revisions log.
6. Develop Planning Timeline
- Task: Create a project planning timeline that outlines the next steps for each service-learning initiative.
- Include:
- Partner confirmation deadline
- Volunteer recruitment period
- Orientation/training dates
- Implementation and monitoring phases
- Deliverables: Project Planning Gantt Chart or Timeline Document.
7. Documentation and Internal Review
- Task: Finalize documentation for internal team use and future reference.
- Include:
- Service-learning project guide
- Mapping matrix
- Sample outlines
- Timeline
- Deliverables: Complete “Service Learning Planning Package” by January 15, 2025.
Let me know if you’d like this turned into a visual work plan or calendar, or if you want to move on to tasks for mid-January to March!
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