The Service and Community Engagement program at Newark Academy aims to support the fulfillment of the mission of Newark Academy by developing the following skills.
The Community Service program will:
1. Build Advocacy Skills
- by raising awareness about the root causes of issues in our community.
- by developing communication skills such as public speaking and active listening.
- by assisting and empowering others through speaking up and out.
2. Cultivate Critical and Ethical Thinking
- by encouraging critical assessment of the impact of systematic inequalities and power structures.
- by exploring concepts and issues that have local, national and global significance.
- by evaluating the ethics of choices and actions to ascertain what is just and equitable.
- by considering ethical cultural and environmental issues.
3. Develop Character
- by building understanding for and connections with people from different generations, backgrounds and cultures.
- by focusing on identity and self-awareness to increase cultural competency and global mindedness.
- by removing oneself from Newark Academy and viewing the world through a different lens.
- by fostering a generosity of spirit through the development of empathy, kindness, compassion and awareness.
- by considering personal relationships to people ideas and concepts.
4. Encourage Collaborative Leadership
- by instilling a sense of social and ethical responsibility in the student.
- by engaging in collaborative work with the communities where we reside and the larger world in a principled and reciprocal manner.
- by developing programs and leading one's peers.
5. Foster Innovation and Creative Problem Solving
- by allowing students to examine the roots of real-world problems through experiential learning and work to propose creative solutions.
- by reflecting on their experience of real-life situations and identifying the next steps in developing solutions.
- by challenging students to find solutions that arise in the moment and build resiliency.