Community Engagement and Public Service Activities

Special Education majors complete their student teaching requirement with Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp: Bittersweet Elementary School

Art & Music Education majors complete their student teaching requirement with Elkhart Community Schools: West Side Middle School

Dr. Davis, Dean of School of Education at IUSB serves as co-chair of the Education Committee for the South Bend History Museum. The committee has worked with the partner school districts (PHM and SBCSC) to nominate individual teachers to serve on the committee and provide guidance on the use of museum resources for instruction. Several of the individuals who were recommended from both corporations participated in the inaugural meeting in February 2021. 

Students from the Elkhart Area Career Center come to campus for a tour, lunch, and career exploration. This is an opportunity to connect with students and help them explore educational opportunities beyond high school.

Arts open house in the Spring (around spring break). IUSB faculty did portfolio reviews. Tour the facilities. Recruitment.

Dr. Kyoko Takanashi has worked with Mishawaka High School’s Early College program in 2017, 2018, and 2019 on bringing their 9th graders in the Summer Bridge Program to IUSB for an early college experience.  "The goal of Mishawaka High School's Early College program is to help students who will be first-time college-goers in their families achieve academic success.  The students who will be involved in our EC are not traditional "honors" students, but they have solid academics, and are the type of students who, with support, will be college-bound."  The Summer Bridge is for entering 9th graders who were in general classes (but got a B+ or better) and who will be taking Honors English in the fall."

Dr. Luppes, a World Language studies professor has visited the German Programs at different high schools since 2014. The desire is to establish connections with German teachers in K-12 and to encourage students to continue with German as long as they can in HS and at IUSB or wherever they go to university.