Service

Service

Here, service learning evolves into service living.   Early on, our Lower School students explore various community causes and drives as a natural offshoot of their classroom units, often boosted by their own enthusiasm and curiosity.  In Middle School, students pursue an interdisciplinary service learning curriculum with a new focus at each grade level that challenges them to form meaningful partnerships with various individuals outside of their daily sphere.  By Upper School, students engage with community centers and nonprofit agencies as a way to deepen their understanding of course concepts and immerse themselves in the complexities of sustainable communities.  Alongside classroom service learning, McGehee girls embrace a student-driven approach to community service by  spearheading clubs with outreach components spreading awareness about initiatives dear to them, and  volunteering with organizations of interest outside of school hours.

Service is a partnership with our community--whether that’s the community within our gates, beyond our gates, throughout the nation, or across the globe. Archival materials recall the efforts of generations of students, from alumnae knitting socks and sweaters for World War I efforts to civic leaders who brought national awareness to our beloved city after Hurricane Katrina. The effort to both understand our world and improve people’s lives is engrained in the way we teach and the way students learn, and thus becomes a way of life for our graduates.