Pin@y Educational Partnerships
Service-Learning Program
What is PEP?
includes:
Bay Area universities/colleges, San Francisco public schools, and the Filipino American Development Foundation (FADF). Uniquely, our counter-pipeline implements a transformative decolonizing curriculum and pedagogy, incorporating all grade levels including primary, middle, secondary, post-secondary, and graduate students. As volunteer teachers of the program, graduate and undergraduate students, from San Francisco State University and surrounding universities who are pursuing careers in education or community service, receive a unique opportunity to teach critical Filipina/o American studies. They gain skills in the practice of critical pedagogy, curriculum development, lesson planning, and teaching.What PEP is About
What issues does PEP address?
Implementing
curriculum that includes ethnic studies and social justice topics that are very much lacking in the standard American curriculum.Underlying problems that lead to this issue: Institutionalized academic oppression of ethnic studies. Institutions choose what to teach - they are leaving ethnic studies out.
Demands PEP
makes:
Personal and Global liberation through knowledge and issues that are often not talked about or taught. Bring tough issues to the light and have "hard conversations" because they need to happen. Provide tools to students to better understand the world we live in and why it is the way it is to create a better future.To whom does PEP make these demands: The institutions who are keeping this learning away or do not know how to provide it.
How can the community help?
Volunteer! There volunteer
oppurtunities
on the website.Helping the Cause
FIGHT for your right to knowledge. Keep ethnic studies, have those "hard conversations," and fight for your community.
Volunteer Highlight: Melissa Vergonio
What I have learned in PEP are things that I know I will take with me as I go on in the world. A lot of times classes feel irrelevant but this class holds a special place in my heart.
Email: mcvergonio@dons.usfca.edu
Website: branded.me/melissavergonio
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Twitter: @MelissaVergonio