College Opportunities for All,
Middle School Shadowing Project,
Adopt-A-Class
Cause of Death: COfA, MSS, & AAC were a collection of projects targeted at blurring the lines between the classroom, home and college. There programs all involved a weeks of labor and collaboration between 3+ K-5th Salinas elementary and Cal State San Bernardino and University of California, Riverside. Such complicated logistics make the long-term sustainability of a program difficult. Coupled with ever-changing administration at the school site and on college campuses which inevitably involve leadership that have other priorities. And in one case, a program died because the talented administrator end up serving time in prison. Time and repetition of outcomes leads Mr. B to believe that in many educational institutions provide support in a way that success happens “in spite of” the system not “because of the support” of the system.
Creators and Developers: Brian Zubak, Larry Light, Mr. B, Molly Tor, Professor Juan Delgado, Professor Oraib Mango, Professor Kelly Dortch, Daiana Rodriguez (CSUSB), and many others.
Below you will find artifacts from the programs.
Sample Itinerary of college field trip.
COfA Philosophy.
Overview of COfA Projects
Group photo of Salinas 4th and 5th Grades at University of California, Riverside.
Students enjoy lunch at the Entomology Department workshop at University of California, Riverside.
Argicultural Department University of California, Riverside.
Making simple machines at the Physics Department at University of California, Riverside.
Students attend Arabic workshop at World Languages Department at California State University, San Bernardino.
As a closing activity usually done the day after a college field trip, all the students from the various classes gather to do the enLIGHTenment Scroll. This is an activity created by Master Teacher Larry Light where a roll of butcher paper is rolled down a school hallway, marked with various graphic organizers (GATE Icons, Venn Diagrams, Thinking Maps, etc.), and filled out by kids.