What a difference a sweatshirt makes

Last week, TSF gave all of the students in the CSA program sweatshirts at a sort of celebration of the end of the first semester of CSA. For the entire week since then, at least half of the students have been wearing their sweatshirts almost every day. They are proud of their accomplishments, their efforts, and the program in which they are enrolled.

That makes me proud.

I have also been wearing—almost every day—the sweatshirt that CSA gave me.

CSA—the College Success Academy—is a program created and run by The SteppingStone Foundation (TSF). In my role at OunceIT I am teaching an ELA class once a week through CSA at the Edison School—a Boston Public School—where I am helping students first learn to blog so that later they can blog to learn.

Sometimes the little things matter as much as the big ones. Don't forget that. My CSA sweatshirt will remind me.

[cross-posted on blog.mytakeonit.com]

About this class

The College Success Academy program was created in 2010 by The Steppingstone Foundation, which develops programs that prepare students for college success. Since 1990, hundreds of students have participated in Steppingtone programs, and more than 90% of them have enrolled in college. Through the College Success Academy, Steppingstone's goal is to set even more Boston students on the path to college graduation.

In this class, CSA students are exploring various technology tools like Google Docs and blogs that they can use in ELA lessons to help with their writing, editing, collaboration, and also their technical skills.

These blogs are written by the students about the students, and topics range from interests in and out of school,  career possibilities, books, and just being kids. Please feel free to follow and comment on their blogs (listed in the column on the right).

We hope you enjoy!

p.s. The post below is something I wrote for our students as an example of a simple first post.