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Bike Drive for Bike Recycle Vermont

Bike Drive for Bike Recycle Vermont

October 11, 2011

In the Bike Recycle Research and Service, different groups have been working on projects to help Bike Recycle Vermont, a program that gives bikes to low income Vermonters and refugees. One group held a bike drive. Last week ten bikes were brought in, and all of them will be going to Bike Recycle Vermont (BRVT). […]

Caring for Trees with Branch out Burlington

October 11, 2011

The “Greening Up Our Cities with Trees” Research and Service class has been busy caring for trees in the local Branch Out Burlington! (also known as BOB!) tree nursery. At least once a week, we walk right behind the school, through the UVM Horticultural Farm, to the Burlington Community Tree Nursery. We are preparing trees […]

The Changing Face of Vermont

October 4, 2011

Mark Cline Lucey’s Research and Service class, “The Changing Face of Vermont,” is working with resettled Nepalese refugees in Burlington every Friday. Students have been challenged with teaching English to these new Americans, ranging from those with a few English words to those with absolutely none. On Wednesdays, this Research and Service class will also […]

Scholarship. Community. Global Responsibility.

Students emerge from their time at Vermont Commons School intrinsically motivated to seek out their role for improving the world, with the skills and competencies to do so.