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Incorporating Service Learning, Even In Your Virtual Classroom
This session will highlight evidence-based, teaching and learning best practices for incorporating service-learning into your classroom with a special emphasis on implementing in a virtual setting and include resources available through the Center for Service and Learning to help you get started.
Miriam E Pearman Leary
Assistant Professor, Human Performance - Exercise Physiology, School of Medicine
Lidiane Castro Gregory
ACADEMIC COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR
Lidiane, or Lidi, is the Academic Community Engagement Coordinator for the Center for Service and Learning at West Virginia University
Originally from Brazil, Lidi (Lee/ jee) graduated with a licentiate degree in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Federal University of the State of Para (UFPA). She worked as an instructor for a national program that provides training and technical assistance on new literacy approaches and methodologies to primary school teachers in rural Brazil. She also taught Portuguese language to study abroad students. In 2014, she joined a USAID sustainable tourism project with the US Forest Service and the WVU Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design as a field research coordinator. She moved to the Morgantown, WV in 2015 to pursue a Masters in Parks and Recreation and continue her research here at WVU. Her focus has been studying public use in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon. After graduation, Lidi worked with the immigrant community in Pittsburgh, PA, and then joined the Center for Service and Learning AmeriCorps/VISTA Collaborative where she served with the Honors College. She joined the CSL's permanent staff in July 2019, first as the iServe Project Coordinator before moving on to her current position. Lidi currently resides in Morgantown and enjoys spending her time running, practicing yoga, and backpacking in Dolly Sods.