{"id":6317,"date":"2015-05-20T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T17:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2016-04-22T16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:51:53","slug":"palo-alto-high-school-social-justice-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/palo-alto-high-school-social-justice-pathway\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto High School &#8211; Social Justice Pathway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMS\u00a0has been accepted into the Social Justice Pathway at Paly starting in 10th grade.<\/p>\n<p>From the Social Justice Pathway Blog (http:\/\/palysocialjustice.blogspot.com\/:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Social Justice Pathway is a three-year program featuring self-direction and project-based learning in an interdisciplinary model rooted in community action and collaboration. This program is for students interested in empowerment, conviction and the passion to build a better world. It&#8217;s an opportunity for authentic education and experiential learning beyond the high school walls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission Statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Social Justice Pathway is a three-year program featuring self-direction and project-based learning in an interdisciplinary model rooted in community action and collaboration. \u00a0This program is for students interested in empowerment, conviction and the passion to build a better world. \u00a0It&#8217;s an opportunity for authentic education and experiential learning beyond the high school walls.<\/p>\n<p>While our vision gives us a &#8220;North Star&#8221; and provides direction, our mission statement simply defines our <em>purpose<\/em> and it is a biggie: build a better world. It helps us to answer three questions about why Paly Social Justice Pathway exists:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong>\u2014a three-year high school program that blends subject curriculum with community action to empower students to make positive change to \u201ctheir world\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO<\/strong>\u2014students and teachers who want more control over and value from their education<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW<\/strong>\u2014give students and teachers to the responsibility and opportunity to connect individual convictions to real world change. To, <em>Access, Adapt, and Act<\/em> to make our community and world a better place<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;Eric Bloom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMS\u00a0has been accepted into the Social Justice Pathway at Paly starting in 10th grade. From the Social Justice Pathway Blog (http:\/\/palysocialjustice.blogspot.com\/: &#8220;The Social Justice Pathway is a three-year program featuring self-direction and project-based learning in an interdisciplinary model rooted in community action and collaboration. This program is for students interested in empowerment, conviction and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/palo-alto-high-school-social-justice-pathway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palo Alto High School &#8211; Social Justice Pathway<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,92,3],"tags":[200,211,202],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10th-grade","category-activism","category-school","tag-paly","tag-social-good","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}