Preparation helps students understand the Caribbean With Purpose mission, their role within Read Around the Isle™, respectful student interaction, cultural awareness, team expectations, and responsible service.
High School Service Education
Serve. Learn. Lead.
Purpose beyond the classroom.
A customizable international service-education experience in Jamaica connecting high school students with meaningful educational service, leadership development, cultural immersion, and global learning.
Service With Purpose
Service with purpose. Learning through experience.
High School Service Education gives students an opportunity to participate in the Caribbean With Purpose mission while developing as students, leaders, and global citizens.
Through educational service, cultural learning, leadership development, and reflection, students experience what responsible global participation can look like.
- Serve
- Learn
- Experience
- Reflect
- Lead
- Educational Service
- Leadership Development
- Cultural Learning
- Global Learning
Educational Service Through Read Around the Isle™
Meaningful service. Real educational purpose.
Through Read Around the Isle™, high school participants support reading literacy and STEM engagement for students in Grades 1–3.
- Reading Ambassadors
- STEM Activity Partners
- Service-Learners
- Positive Role Models
Working alongside Jamaican educators, participants may support read-alouds, comprehension and literacy activities, hands-on STEM experiences, and meaningful student engagement.
Local educators lead.
Students support.
Everyone learns.
High school participants do not enter classrooms as teachers. They participate as service-learners and supporters within established educational environments.
More Than Volunteer Hours
Quality of engagement over quantity of hours.
Meaningful service is about more than accumulating volunteer hours.
Students are encouraged to arrive prepared, participate respectfully, work collaboratively, reflect on what they experience, and understand the purpose behind the work they support.
Leadership can begin with service.
- Leadership
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Responsibility
- Adaptability
- Confidence
- Problem-Solving
- Cultural Awareness
- Global Citizenship
Jamaica as a Classroom
Cultural immersion is part of the education.
Learning extends beyond the partner school.
Students have opportunities to experience Jamaica's people, history, culture, traditions, environment, and community through appropriate cultural, historical, recreational, and group experiences.
Service provides connection.
Culture provides context.
Experience creates understanding.
Flexible in structure. Consistent in purpose.
Each experience can be developed around the participating school's goals, schedule, group size, travel parameters, and student needs while remaining rooted in:
- Educational Service
- Leadership Development
- Cultural Learning
- Global Learning
Specific dates, program length, accommodations, transportation, service schedules, and itineraries are developed for each participating group.
The educational purpose does not change.
Prepare. Experience. Reflect.
Service begins before arrival.
Reflection turns experience into learning.
Students are encouraged to consider what they observed, what they learned, what challenged them, and how the experience may influence the way they approach service and leadership in the future.
The goal is to return home able to say more than:
“I went to Jamaica.”
- 01
I learned.
- 02
I served.
- 03
I listened.
- 04
I grew.
For Schools, Students & Families
Bring purpose into student travel.
High School Service Education is designed for high school students and organizations interested in education, STEM, literacy, leadership, community service, culture, global learning, and responsible international engagement.
- High Schools
- Charter Schools
- Homeschool Organizations
- Student Leadership Groups
- STEM Programs
- Service Clubs
- Youth & Community Organizations
- Educational Travel Groups
Continue the Purpose
The experience is part of something larger.
Read Around the Isle™
Creates direct literacy and STEM engagement with students in Grades 1–3.
Book Cove™
Helps create a sustainable learning environment where access to books, literacy resources, STEM materials, appropriate technology, and discovery can continue.
The participant returns home.
The educational mission continues.
The Learning Can Continue
For students interested in continuing their global learning after high school, Caribbean With Purpose also works with colleges and universities through international education and field-based learning opportunities.
Expand Access
Schools, organizations, corporations, foundations, and donors can help expand access to purposeful global learning and support defined educational needs.
High School Service Education