CEDARRIVERSIDECOMMUNITYSCHOOL / AUGSBURGCOLLEGE PARTNERSHIP TIMELINE

1993

  • Cedar Riverside Community School (CRCS) charter proposal approved by state board of Education
  • Augsburg faculty serve on first CRCS school board.

1994

  • CRCS receives Augsburgfreshmen completing City Service Projects. This first year program has continued to present.
  • Augsburg Education students begin tutoring at the CRCS. This continues today.

1995

  • Augsburg awarded funding from the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) for Time Fragments Art and Oral History project in which Augsburg History students interviewed Cedar Riverside neighborhood seniors and then worked with students at CRCS to depict the seniors stories in drawings and paintings.

The art work was exhibited in the community.

  • CRCS hosts Augsburg service-learning scholar for one year. Scholar serves as liaison between CRCS and Augsburg student organizations recruiting volunteers for CRCS.

1996

  • Augsburg hosts CRCS on campus for the first “Kids Come to Campus” event. This is now an annual event and includes other K-12 schools.
  • CRCS contracts with Augsburg to employ Augsburg work-study student in administrative office.

1997

  • Partnership awarded mini-grant for Art and Social Change by MN Campus Compact
  • Music Program established in which Augsburg students enrolled in Piano Pedagogy course teach piano lessons to CedarRiversideCommunitySchoolstudents. This program has continued up to the present year.
  • Band Project which involved 2-4 Augsburg Music Education majors teaching private music lessons to 9-12 graders.
  • Photography project which was an Independent Study course for an Augsburg Art major. She taught basic photography to 9-12 grade students.

1998

  • Augsburg Health and Physical Education students raise funds to purchase sports equipment for CRCS.
  • An Augsburg Education faculty member receives Richard Green scholarship allowing her course-release time to teach at CRCS.
  • Partnership awarded funding from Medtronic to purchase portable Foss science labs which enable Augsburg education students to teach physics to 7th and 8th grade students at CRCS. This program has continued up to the present year.
  • Poetry project in which Augsburg English students helped CRCS students write poems and record them.

1999

  • Augsburg hosts a full-time “Get Ready” educational outreach liaison who worked with 4th and 5th graders at CRCS, tutoring and preparing children to think about post-secondary education. Augsburg hosted a liaison for 3 years.
  • Augsburg receives Association for the Advancement of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) funding to integrate service-learning in teacher education. As a result of this grant, a service-learning consultant conducted a staff development seminar on service-learning at CRCS.

2000

  • Partnership awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Teacher Scholar Program which paid for 5 student teachers in Math and Science.
  • Partnership awarded CHESP grant by the State Dept. of Education to strengthen partnership.
  • Augsburg hosts Kid’s with Disabilities Day with assistance from staff and students at CedarRiversideSchool.
  • Begin Annual Fitness Exam program in which Augsburg students conduct physical exams as part of Physical Education course.
  • CedarRiversideCommunitySchool adopts service-learning in the curriculum.
  • Augsburg recruits Americorps members to work at CRCS.

2001

  • BrandeisUniversity evaluation team chooses partnership as one of two national models for school partnerships.
  • Partnership awarded funding from CIC/CAPHE for college first year experience program.
  • Augsburg Physical Education professor teaches spring semester at CRCS.
  • Share a story project in conjunction with Augsburg Journalism course, CRCS students compile book of stories and present a copy to Dean of College to be placed in Augsburg library.

2002

  • CRCS Assistant Director represents partnership at national conference, “ Building partnerships with College Campuses; Community Perspectives.”
  • CedarRiversideCommunitySchoolawarded Federal TitleVII grant which enables faculty from both schools to learn about English Language Learners. (ELL)
  • Augsburg CSWL staff elected to CRCS board.
  • Augsburg Education students enrolled in Reading Methods course create books with CRCS students that culturally specific and at appropriate reading levels for K-8 students.

2003

  • CedarRiversideCommunitySchool receives recognition as Service-LearningLeaderSchool by the MN Dept. of Education
  • E Entertainment Network videos partnership for national program to be aired in spring 2004.
  • Augsburgsoccer team hosts CRCS on campus for soccer clinic.
  • CRCS is awarded Learn and Serve funding through the State Dept. of Education.