Achievements

Alice Villaseńor, associate director of the Civic and Community Engagement Office (CCE), and Talia Rodriguez, associate director of West Side Promise Neighborhood (WSPN), facilitated the session “Service-Learning Pre-Reflections: A Food Security Reflection Activity” at the conference Beyond the Classroom: Community-Engaged Teaching and Research, held at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, on June 2.

Their session on pre-reflection combined a brief informational presentation with a practical demonstration. The CCE team highlighted research on the importance of pre-reflection for student learning in community-engaged learning courses. They then discussed a specific food security reflection activity that the WSPN invites its new stakeholders (including community-engaged learning students) to complete. Participants completed their own food reflections and discussed what they learned from the activity.