viduals and larger systems. While 10 hours is required, over 80% of the students do significantly more volunteering.
York defines “service learning” as any voluntary service in which students are asked to do more than provide manpower for a non-profit organization or social cause. Typically, service learning extends curricular goals by doing service in the community, mutually benefiting the organization or audience and the student. Students should be expanding their comfort zones by engaging in personally significant and challenging service, whether developing leadership capacity, intrapersonal communication skills, or organization abilities and other relevant expertise.
Opportunities for student-centered learning models and learning by doing are an exciting part of the York curriculum. Interdisciplinary STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics – projects support inquiry-based and challenge-based learning. By making, inventing, designing, and tinkering, students develop hands-on experience with innovation, entrepreneurship, and problem-solving.
Every day at York, we witness remarkable ideas morphing and thriving in the minds of this community. Without a doubt, they are ideas worth spreading. One way to distribute them: TEDxYorkSchool, an annual conference for students and community memers featuring a line up of speakers who bring new ideas and creativity to the world.
The York Outdoor Laboratory provides education and research programs in field biology, ecology, natural history, geosciences, and the history of land use practices for York students and the Central Coast community. Get all of the details here.