Pangaea Project provides students
with local, international experiences

Mt. Scott High School is again partnering with The Pangaea Project for the 2010-11 school year to provide students with enriching leadership development experiences locally and internationally.

Founded in 2003, the Pangaea Project focuses on changemakers, a term used to define people locally and internationally who have overcome adversity to make a positive difference in their communities. As participants in an intensive six-month program that includes a one-month international component in Ecuador, Mt. Scott students meet, work alongside, and live with grassroots community leaders and those who hail from backgrounds similar to the students themselves.

The program’s first phase is the school-based delivery model known as World CLASS (Connect Learn Act Serve Solve). Previously delivered as an afterschool and weekend program, the new school-based model provides an innovative global curriculum that is valuable to students independent of the international travel opportunity. It also offers students a way to earn high school and community college credit apart from their mandatory classes, provides additional teaching resources to school partners, and embeds Pangaea Project curriculum into school culture as more students participate and become leaders among their peers.

During the 2010-2011 school year, The Pangaea Project will serve approximately 45 teenagers and young adults with the World CLASS curriculum at three partner schools: Mt. Scott High School, Open Meadow and Portland YouthBuilders. An additional 350 students will receive Pangaea Project educational content in school, and 1,000 more youth and community members will be educated by Pangaea Project participants through presentations, interviews and social action campaigns.