The CAS Experience: From the Student's Perspective

Room: Mississippi

presented by Sara Leven, CAS Coordinator/Service Learning Coordinator, Nicholas Senn High School

This session will offer participants the opportunity to hear directly from local IB students who will share their CAS experiences and learn how CAS impacts our students' growth. Both the workshop leader and the student panelists will present a variety of CAS projects. This will be an interactive session so that participants will be able to engage in a question and answer session as well as participate in hands-on activities. Hear directly from the students how CAS has made a difference in their lives.

Sara Leven, CAS Coordinator/Service Learning Coordinator, Nicholas Senn High School
Sara Leven began working at Senn High School, a Chicago Public School, in 1997, at which time she designed and implemented a school-wide service-learning program, which was nationally recognized in 2002. She has been the IB CAS Coordinator at Senn HS for the past seven years, since the programme's inception. Trained as a CAS workshop leader, Sara has led CAS sessions throughout North America. She has also conducted several service-learning workshops both locally and nationally since 1999. She assists in coordinating the citywide CAS Fair held in Chicago annually. In addition, she is a licensed clinical social worker and certified school social worker.