Service Learning

Burke’s girls at every grade level participate in age-appropriate community service activities that are integrated with the classroom experience. From kindergartners assessing the campus for its accessibility to disabled students and third graders taking charge of paper recycling on campus to seventh graders serving lunch at the Haight-Ashbury Food Program and eighth graders tutoring in local elementary schools, students learn how they can make a difference within and beyond their own communities.

Fifth grade students are responsible for school-wide publicity for community service activities.

In the sixth grade, students resume and extend their earlier work on recycling.

During the seventh grade, students take a service-learning course for one trimester, choosing between hunger, food and nutrition; gardening; or quilting, and use the skills they learn to support various community organizations.

In the eighth grade, students take a service-learning course for one trimester, working with children at Lafayette Elementary School.