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LENT MADNESS GIVING COMPETITION Lent Madness is a week-long tournament of giving to support our neighbors in need of assistance and help. In the lead-up to Easter—just around the time of the March Madness college basketball tournament—this event combines the spiritual exercise of charitable giving with the "madness" of healthy competition. This past year, we partnered with the local non-profit Refugee and Immigrant Transitions, and collected toys, books, stationery, giftcards, and money for refugee and immigrant children in the Bay Area. In the service learning process, we hosted speakers in Chapel who shared their own experiences as refugees or immigrants. The grade level with the most consistent givers is awarded the special distinction of leading the Servant Leadership chapel.
DAY OF SERVICE & DAY OF ACTION Once a year, CSB pauses the calendar to have the entire school participate in a Day of Service where each grade works with parents, alumni, or neighbors to volunteer to improve our surrounding communities. Similarly, we hope to include a Day of Action each year. Modeled after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s steps for nonviolent social change, the Day of Action will involve taking a specific area of injustice and applying the service learning process to take actions to bring about awareness and change. FUTURE SERVICE GOALS In addition to the Day of Action, my plan for the future is to develop a service learning curriculum where each grade level explores a different area of service that can also be associated with some spiritual quality or story. The Lower School curriculum, for example, might
6th graders at the Bayview Mission beautiful, more loving, and more just through a commitment to service that was cultivated here at CSB. educated at Cathedral will grow to be a Good Samaritan, making the world more focus on service towards the earth and animals, the elderly, other children, local heroes, and immigrants and refugees. The Upper School curriculum, for example, might focus more specifically on serving children at neighboring public schools, our neighbors seeking food assis- tance, the unhoused, and those who have died alone. My goal is to have the service learning curriculum span from ‘cradle to grave’— from discovering how we can serve infants and toddlers in our communities, all the way to learning how to memori- alize someone who would otherwise be forgotten in their death. Ultimately, I pray that each boy
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