K-16 Education

Our K-16 educational programs and curricula are designed to involve students in service-learning, a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Students gain a "real world" extension to their classroom education, and at the same time, build a connection to their community.

• Assess their community, in order to address real community needs
• Connect service to school-based academic learning
• Reflect purposefully on the connection between the service activity, their academic goals, and their own lives
• Celebrate and recognize the contributions of all participants
• Evaluate their accomplishments and the processes they followed

SOLV educational materials are designed for use by teachers and students in Oregon; all of the following SOLV programs and curricula are designed to promote service-learning. All education materials are aligned with Oregon Department of Education CIM and CAM standards and benchmarks across content areas.

Community Service

SOLV also offers students a number of opportunities to join a variety of cleanup, enhancement, and restoration efforts around Oregon. Students and their families are invited to join the following pre-scheduled, one-day cleanup and enhancement community service opportunities that SOLV sponsors throughout Oregon.

• Oregon Beach Cleanup (Spring and Fall) help clean the entire coast of trash and marine debris.
• Down By The Riverside (Spring) clean and restore public spaces along Oregon's waterways.
• SOLV IT (early Spring, Portland Metropolitan area) cleans illegal dumpsites and neighborhoods.
• Team Up for Watershed Health (Fall, Winter, early Spring, Portland Metropolitan area) restores urban and suburban streams.


HONORING OUR RIVER ANTHOLOGY WRITING COMPETITION

Students from Kindergarten through college can enter their original creative content, and winning entries will be published
in the Honoring Our River 2009 Anthology.

Obtain an application from your teacher/professor, or at Honoring Our River. Submissions deadline is February 28th, 2009. Entries will be judged in early March, and the anthologies will be published in April.