[BHS Etree] STUDENT ACTIVITIES: Chris Young Wins Fulbright Scholarship!

[BHS etree]

Berkeley High Teacher/Activities Director Awarded Fulbright Scholarship


Published: MAY 9, 2012

Berkeley High School's Student Activities Director Chris Young has won the
"Distinguished Award in Teaching" offered by the Fulbright Program within
the U.S. Department of State.

To win the award the educator must have at least five years teaching
experience and a Master's in Education.  Twelve educators from the U.S. are
selected every year to travel abroad and twelve from abroad are selected to
come to the US.  Each one proposes a three to six month educational action
research project.  Mr. Young will be funded for a six month project of his
design in Argentina from March to August, 2013.

 <https://vimeo.com/41888649> Listen to a Flip Video of Chris Young
explaining his plans.

 <http://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DSC04404.jpg> 

BHS Student Activities Director with Sophomore Leaders

According to Chris, "I will be doing research on 'Youth Learning and
Leadership through Guided Action Research in Community Settings'.  In other
words, I will be exploring how to most effectively help young people develop
academic skills and social leadership abilities through their own
self-developed social change projects that address issues or problems in
their local to global community."

 

Chris started teaching at Berkeley High School as a social studies teacher
in 2004 and was one of the lead designers of BIHS and its first lead teacher
in 2006-2007. After that he did informal research on peace education in
South America in 2008 and helped evaluate and develop a joint
microfinance-forest conservation project in Uganda in 2009 before returning
to BHS as Director of Student Activities for the 2009-2010 school year.

http://www.berkeleyschools.net/2012/05/09/berkeley-high-teacheractivities-di
rector-awarded-fulbright-scholarship/

 

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