High School students participating in Philadelphia Freedom Schools benefit from two overall objectives: Along with assisting with classroom instruction and management, these Junior and Literacy Servant Leaders are also responsible for attending weekly academic lectures and completing a portfolio of work each year.

 

The Junior Servant Leaders (JSL’S) component of Philadelphia Freedom Schools offers high school students the opportunity to learn and earn by offering jobs the summer program sites of Philadelphia Freedom Schools.  JSL’S function as Classroom Assistants to Servant Leaders Interns during the morning PFS Pathways Curriculum and engage in afternoon instruction and coaching in the completion of their Service-learning Project.  The goal of the JSL component of Philadelphia Freedom Schools is to encourage high school students to embrace servant leadership as a force to heal and foster positive growth in the community. 

 

During summer months, the JSLs also participate in Wednesday Academics.  During the Academies, young people engage in a curriculum that incorporates history, writing, life skills, job readiness, college preparation, computer and service-learning activities.  Additionally, the curriculum includes a book that the JSLs read together throughout the summer.  The summer reading for 2020 is the education of black people by W.E.B. Dubois.