Program Name: Kidnet at
St. Martins De Porres School
Location: St. Martins De
Porres School , 675 41st Street,
Oakland, CA 94609
Principal Investigator(s):
- Professor Glynda Hull, Graduate School of Education
Contact: Adrienne Herd,
Project Coordinator, aherd@berkeley.edu
Site Description:
The UC Links Kidnet program at St. Martins De
Porres Elementary School, located in the high-poverty
community of West Oakland, provides a variety of
informal and formal learning activities for children,
five days per week. Activities are conducted in
the school’s
all-purpose room and include both homework help
and informal technology-based activities, such
as digital storytelling, music and video production,
podcasting, as well as cross-national and intercultural
exchanges. Undergraduates
participate in the site by enrolling in the Education
140 series of courses in the Graduate School of
Education at UC Berkeley.
Course: Education 140AC: Literacy:
Individual and Societal Development
Participants (based on 2005-06
data):
- Approximately 15 K-4th grade students per academic
year
- 85% African American; 15% Latino
- 45% male, 55% female
- Approximately10 undergraduates; 1 graduate
student per academic year
Collaborators:
- UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education
- St. Martins De Porres School in the Oakland Unified
School District
- The Prescott Joseph Center for Community Enhancement
in Oakland
- Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland
- Bay Area Community Resources (BACR) Agency
- YAH Village Collaborative (M. Robinson Baker
YMCA, Attitudinal Healing Connection, Inc., and
Hoover Elementary)
Goals:
- Provide safe and healthy places after school
for children to learn and develop a sense of
self as participants in a global world
- Promote academic achievement and encourage
low-income youth to pursue paths to higher learning
- Increase technology literacy
- Improve the quality of graduate and undergraduate
education by connecting academic coursework to
practicum field experience
- Encourage undergraduates to explore the possibility
of a teaching career in urban, low-income communities
Activities:
- Homework help, academic tutoring, and writing
assistance
- Activities organized around digital communicative
arts such as storytelling, music-making, video
production, podcasting
Evaluation:
- University of California Student Academic Preparation
and Educational Partnerships (SAPEP) Annual Performance
Report
- UC Links Reading Assessment
- Survey of undergraduates’ interest in
pursuing graduate or professional school studies
- Global index for measuring project effects
on development of positive attitudes
Research Focus:
- A sociocultural theoretical perspective on
informal learning
- Effect of site activities on identity formation
of learners
- Socio-cognitive development of undergraduates
through tutoring and mentoring
- Participation in after-school programs across
the age and grade levels
- Sustainability of university-community collaboration
through ongoing institutional development
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