\n\t\t\t\tWorking hard to create our products!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nWhen students identify an authentic need in their local, national, or global community and use their knowledge, understanding, and skills to make a plan to meet this need, they engage in <\/span>service learning<\/span><\/i>. With <\/span>service learning<\/span><\/i> being an important component of Eastgate Academy\u2019s program, students have the unique opportunity to engage in important (local, global) issues while also developing open-mindedness, empathy, and a sense of responsibility. Learning in this way inspires students to take action and make a positive difference in the lives of others.<\/span><\/p>\nThe hugs, shrieks of joy, and other celebratory gestures we saw at our <\/span>Eastgate Supports Ukraine <\/span><\/i>fundraiser were not just the result of meeting, doubling, and then tripling our fundraising goal. They were also the result of meaningful learning that inspired students and allowed them to experience a deep sense of ownership, empathy, and responsibility while taking action.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Big smiles, shrieks of delight, and other celebratory gestures. This is what our students were doing at 4:00pm on Thursday May 5th when they met their goal of raising $500 within the first 30 minutes of their Eastgate Supports Ukraine fundraiser. By 4:30pm, students doubled their initial goal, and by the time the sale ended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastgate.panchroma.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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