Cathedral Service Learning
Cathedral High School earns grant totaling nearly $28,000
Indianapolis, Ind. — Students and faculty from Cathedral High School are celebrating the news that they have been awarded a $27,930 grant from the State Farm Youth Advisory Board for a project dubbed, “Bringing Botany Alive!”
 Known widely throughout the state for its Catholic tradition of exceptional academic programs, Cathedral teachers use Service Learning as a pedagogy to inform their students on how their class can affect the greater community.
Liz Browning and Katie Lewis are the two teachers that coordinate and assist Service Learning Experiences. |
What is service learning?
Service learning is a teaching method that provides students unique opportunities to understand the connections between what they’re learning in the classroom and real life community challenges and issues. Service learning is a type of experiential learning and is intentionally connected to a course, such as science, government, English, Spanish, and theology.
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Why is service learning important for Cathedral students? 
For the past 20 years, educators K-16 have seen extraordinary academic results by engaging students in their own learning process through the service learning teaching method.
- Students benefit academically, socially, and emotionally;
- They develop skills related to course content and critical thinking, leadership, and consensus building skills;
- They may explore numerous career options;
- And come to appreciate the value of spiritual and civic responsibility through active participation in their local, regional, and global communities.
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Sandi Scheetz’s Speech Class with the kindergarteners from Indianapolis Lighthouse Charter School whose teacher is Katie Boyd, an alum of CHS |
