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MIAMI MACARTHUR SOUTH HEADED TO THE WHITE HOUSE MIAMI - Administrators from The Young Men’s Academy for Academic and Civic Responsibility at Miami MacArthur South Alternative School are headed to Washington, D.C. to represent M-DCPS and Florida Learn & Serve at the “White House Conference on Youth and Education in the Hispanic Community” on Monday, September 24. In 2002, MacArthur South originated an Arts-Based Service Learning initiative “Pupil’s Perceptions” that is being presented as an example of the positive results that can be achieved through education with Hispanic youth populations. Florida Learn and Serve is a federally funded program that awards grants to schools and school districts to engage youth in service-learning. MacArthur South’s Arts-Based Service-Learning program partners with Art South, a cultural arts facility in Homestead. Students at Art South learn to revive vanishing indigenous Hispanic art traditions with their professional resident artists. In addition to participating in community cultural revitalization activities, the students subsequently train underserved populations with their newly acquired skills. During the conference, there will be six workshops running concurrently with 1,500 attendees. The presenters for MacArthur South include Dr. David Moore, Principal; Janis Klein-Young, Service Learning Coordinator; and Beatriz Herrmann, Community Liaison. ### 07-FMN/185/QT |
