Service Learning

The Service Learning Trip is an integral and unusual facet of the Woolman Semester.  Teachers and students take classroom learning out into the world.  We travel down the east side of the Sierra Nevada’s to study how water policy issues have effected the ecosystems at Mono Lake, the Salton Sea and Owens Valley.  After a week of travel, students help with community needs in the small village of Maclovio Rojas, just south of the US border. The final week of the trip is spent in Los Angeles and the central valley of California looking at immigration issues and working with Self-Help Enterprises building homes with local residents, many of whom are recent Mexican and Hmong immigrants.  The juxtaposition of the two types of service is a powerful experience for students and teachers alike.