CELE Center Student Opportunities

Dear colleagues, 

Greetings from the Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center! This quarterly campus partner email digest is designed to share CELE Center updates with you as well as upcoming opportunities to share with students.  A summary of this Winter 2023 digest includes: 

1. Update:  Service Leads Here story 
2. Connect: Save the Date for Spring Celebration on May 24 
3. Student opportunities to share (*please share with your student networks!): 

• Apply: America Reads Work Study Tutors
• Apply: College and Career Readiness Assistants
• Apply: Jumpstart Team Leaders and Corps Members
• Apply: Riverways Guides
• Apply: Riverways Literacy Arts Alternative Spring Break (ASB)
• Register: CELE K-12 Tutors and Mentors for Spring 2023 
• Register: LEAD 100: Learning Leadership in Theory and Practice for Spring 2023
• Explore: for NextGen Civic Leader Corps 
• For social media: CELE Center post for social media channels

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• Update:  Read about the journeys of 4 CELE Center program alumni in this Service Leads Here story.  
• Connect:  Save the Date for the Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership on May 24 from 4:30-7:00 p.m. in The HUB!  Please join us at the Spring Celebration to hear CELE Center students and Mary Gates Leadership Scholars reflect on their service and leadership engagements.   This will be a great opportunity to celebrate, support and engage in dialogue with students about their learning experiences.   
• Student opportunities to share:  Please share the following with your students.  Our opportunities are open to students of all disciplines.  Thank you!
• Apply: America Reads Work Study Tutors
  • America Reads Work Study is a program where UW students tutor weekly for the school year at target schools in Seattle. Tutors focus on reading skills with elementary school students and build strong relationships with youth by making a commitment to their tutoring site between late October-June during the academic year. Tutors support the Seattle Public Schools' effort to promote educational equity for all students, with a focus on under-resourced schools. Tutors must be work-study eligible. Still accepting applications for this academic year. Visit our website to learn more and apply. 
• Apply: College and Career Readiness Assistants
  • The UW Dream Project is hiring undergraduate students to serve as College and Career Readiness Assistant (CCRA) interns at local high schools and middle schools for the 2022-2023 school year.  CCRA interns will work directly with middle and/or high school students to support post-secondary preparation & planning including but not limited to working with students on: college applications, financial aid, scholarship searching, and career exploration. This is an academic year long paid internship. CCRAs work at their school placement site for 10-12 hours/week and attend a bi-weekly 2 hour professional development session. Open until filled.  Visit our website for more position details and how to apply today!
• Apply: Jumpstart Team Leaders and Corps Members
  • UW Jumpstart is currently hiring several leadership positions to help us in our mission to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten. Members have the unique opportunity to inspire young children to learn, serve in a local community, collaborate with others on a team, and build professional skills. All members receive high quality training to help them implement Jumpstart’s outcome-based program, promote children’s school success, and build family engagement. Open until filled.  Visit our website for more position details and how to apply today!
•  Apply:  Riverways Guides 
  • Riverways Guides mentor K-12 students from rural and tribal communities and support partnerships between the UW and community colleges.  Develop and facilitate workshops and programs to help students envision pathways towards higher education through community colleges. Open until filled. Visit our website to learn more and apply.
• Apply:  Riverways Literacy Arts Alternative Spring Break 2023
  • Want to do something amazing with your spring break? Participate in Literacy Arts Alternative Spring Break (ASB) 2023! Riverways Education Partnerships has an opportunity for UW students to facilitate a creative story-telling project with K-12 students in rural and tribal communities across Washington over Spring Break.  Participants will join a training seminar in preparation for the week.   Application deadline:  February 10. Visit our website to learn more and apply.  
    
• Register: CELE K-12 Tutors and Mentors for Spring 2023 
  • Passionate about educational equity and interested in gaining experience working with K-12 students from diverse backgrounds?  Tutoring and mentoring are rewarding experiences and a great way to engage with the local community.  Enroll in EDUC 260 and 401 this upcoming Spring quarter to learn about K-12 educational equity  issues while tutoring in a K-12 Seattle Public School classroom or mentoring high school students in post-secondary planning.  Enroll during Spring 2023 course registration period. Visit our website to learn more.  
• Register:  LEAD 100: Learning Leadership in Theory and Practice for Spring 2023
  • LEAD 100 introduces students to contemporary leadership theories and frameworks with an emphasis on translating formal, academic study of leadership into practice. Highlighting authentic leadership constructs and concepts that center the value of social justice and critical perspectives, this course develops students' leadership identity and confidence and sets the stage for continued leadership development.   Offered T&Th 3:30-5:20 p.m.  This is a required course for the Minor in Leadership. 
•  Explore: NextGen Civic Leader Corps 
  • The UW NextGen Civic Leader Corps aims to spark, hone and recognize a deeper commitment to public and community service for undergraduate students. ​This is a great opportunity to meet other Huskies and students across the country who are interested in public service as well as explore government, non-profit and social venture careers. NextGen also provides opportunities to build your professional network through connections with community leaders. We offer advising, programming, networking opportunities and exclusive access to scholarship dollars to socially engaged, community-rooted leaders with the aim to empower and equip the next generation of public service leaders. Students can get plugged into the NextGen community by filling out our Interest Form and visiting our website. 

*For social media: CELE Center post for social media channels

Another way to share about CELE Center opportunities with students is by posting this CELE Center image on your department’s social media channels.  Thank you for helping us spread the word! 

Please let us know if you have any questions or would like to connect.  Thank you for your partnership in supporting students to develop their capacity to contribute to thriving communities!