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Tarzana, California
Tarzana Habits-of-Heart Club
This project, an initiative begun by a local benefactor
in the community and still sustained by
community benefactors, serves students at a Title
I school with children from many cultural backgrounds.
In the years since it began, the schoolÂ’s
API scores have continuously improved, and the
program has influenced student behavior.
Students have worked on developing personal
character traits, offering service to the broader
community using their academic and artistic
skills, and learning to apply conflict resolution
skills. They conducted humanitarian projects
such as considering prevention as a primary
humanitarian act. They learned about engineering
and created a traveling exhibit on earthquake
proof construction to teach others and to benefit
a community in Pakistan. The students created
a book of their own art work for preschoolers in
other countries and in their own school. They
performed for several guest presenters. They
learned the art of self-mastery and conducted
many humanitarian projects. They shared their
environmental ideas with international classroom
communities and committed acts of sacrifice for
others. (See the section on Panama and on Project
Art for details of other projects.) We believe that
country-to-country collaborative learning connections,
even when occasional, are powerful tools for
sculpting world citizens who use their creative
and cognitive problem solving skills to show
compassion, to enhance the well-being of the
world and its peoples and places, and to expand
studentsÂ’ sense of unified purpose and mutual
respect as well as seeding their emerging altruistic
identities. Observations as well as evaluations
indicate that even limited contact has a lasting
impact as students feel new altruistic impulses
animating their lives and hearts.
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