Counseling Center 
Professional School Counselor - Debra Morrow
Registrar - Lisa Howard
Phone: 301.850.6361
Fax: 301.390.5721
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See below for Important Information from the Tall Oaks Guidance Department.
EXAMPLES OF Student Learning Service Hours
Service-Learning activities must include Preparation, Action, and Reflection
SENIOR CITIZEN PROJECTS_____
- yard work, shovel snow, work around the house
- grocery shopping, reading the newspaper, books, etc.
- write letters for the seniors, write a journal type documentary on their life
- with the senior dictation the past to you
- volunteer at the local senior center
CHILDREN SERVICE PROJECTS_____
- tutor at the neighborhood school or day care center
- present special programs that have a message to young children, e.g., a
- puppet show on saying no to strangers
- make daily calls to a latchkey student
- serve as a homework hotline for the children in the neighborhood
- create a special childcare day during certain time of the year, e.g., Saturday
- before the winter holidays so parents can go shopping
COMMUNITY PROJECTS_____
- assist city governments, or civic associations with the planting of trees,
- flowers, or a park clean up
- participate in the Adopt-a-Highway program
- help out a sick neighbor by running errands, taking out the trash, bringing in
- the mail
- help around your place of worship-clean-up chores, teach Sunday School,
- assist with a festival or bazaar, sing in the choir, baby-sit in the nursery
- assist with monitoring a recycling program in your apartment or housing
- development
- volunteer at the library
- coach or help out with the Boys and Girls Club
- help with the Boys Scouts/Girl Scouts
- help with Little League
- work on a graffiti clean-up campaign in your community
- help at the local nursing home, volunteer in your local hospital
- assist with Special Community Projects-e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr.
- celebrations, Black History Month, women’s History Month, National Heritage Hispanic Month
SCHOOL BASED PROJECTS_____
- become an active member of the peer mediation and/or conflict resolution teams in your school
- develop a plan and plant bushes and flowers around the school; decorate
- trash containers (school colors and mascot);do grounds clean-up
- serve as a school guide during special events
- tutor students before/after school, or during lunch