Local Programs

The majority of Just Think’s programs serve diverse, under-resourced populations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Below are highlights from the last several years of our local programming.

National Programs
International Programs

Youth Media Educators Mentors, Spring 2008

Feinstein Elementary Expanded Learning, Fall 2007, Spring 2008

Lilienthal Elementary, Fall 2007, Spring 2008

Marina Middle School Expanded Learning, Fall 2007, Spring 2008

San Francisco School, April 2007

Thurgood Marshall High School, Fall 2006

Presidio Teachers Night, October 2006

Media Education, Arts and Literacy Program (MEAL), Marina Middle School, Visitacion Valley Middle School, Fall 2003-Spring 2006

Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Youth Services of Santa Cruz, U.C. Santa Cruz, Spring 2006

Lincoln High School Resource Fair, August 2005

Home Away From Homelessness, October 2005

Family Media Forum, Marin County Community School, Cal-SAFE, Bridge the Gap, Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation, Campbell Hall School, Fall 2004-Spring 2005

The Bay School, April 2005

Pilocene Ridge School, April 2005

Listen Up! Workshop and Conference, Spring 2005

Ida B. Wells Health Fair, Spring 2005

Healthy Teens Summit, 2004
Just Think gave a presentation and networked with teachers, school program coordinators, and parents at this YMCA program that focused on media literacy.

Intersection for the Arts, 2004
Just Think provided a 2-hour workshop to high school youth and teachers from the eastside College Prep School. The workshop was designed around the “Paper Bullets” exhibit at Intersection for the Arts about wartime propaganda in the U.S.

City Arts and Technology (CAT), 2004
Just Think worked with classroom teachers and taught digital media classes at a new San Francisco charter high school.

ACME Declarations of Media Independence, 2004
Focusig on our Hidden Heroes and Hip Hop Curricula, Just Think presented a workshop weaving media literacy into the classroom at the Action Coalition for Media Education national conference. The Just Think Mobile allowed conference attendees to see examples of programs and view student and teacher media projects. Just Think also received the National Media Literacy Activist Award in the Youth category.

SF Jazz, 2004
Just Think worked with SF Jazz musicians and students at Presidio Middle School to consider the concept of freedom annd produce a DVD entitled the Freedom Project, later screeened for other students, parents, and teachers at the school.

Marin School of Arts & Technology (MSAT), 2003-2004
Just Think taughty a two-semester class in media literacy and production and worked with teachers at this brand new charter school. Student films were screened at the Rafael Theatre and at the College of Marin Indian Valley campus.

Ring Mountain, 2003
Just Think delivered a six-week in-school program for fifth and sixth graders at Ring Mountain Day School in Tiburon. Just Think Program Director Erica Deiparine-Sugars taught students the basics of media literacy and guided them in the production of digital media self-portraits. (Click here to see their finished pieces.) The final session included a visit with the Just Think Mobile, a big hit with the kids. The program was featured in a recent edition of the Mill Valley Herald. (Click here to read the article.)

411 Youth Fest, 2003
This neighborhood youth driven and produced summer media festival was spearheaded by Just Think in partnership with 11 SF nonprofits and held in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Just Think Internships, 2003
At our Presidio headquarters, Just Think worked extensively over the course of two months with two interns. Together, they produced a Key Concepts video for Just Think to use in future education workshops. In addition, Just Think continued to sponsor a Community College intern, teaching him advanced media production and editing skills.

B-Phat Fitness Fair, 2003
Just Think hosted an educational exhibit focusing on the media and body image at this youth health fair in Mill Valley, CA.

Coro Workshop, 2003
Just Think led a media education workshop for a group of Exploring Leadership interns from Coro, San Francisco.

Piensalo!, 2002
In this 30-hour Intensive Training, Just Think delivered, in Spanish, an after school media education program at Davidson Middle School, where the student body is predominantly low-income Latino students from San Rafael’s Canal District, that resulted in a student produced video on school activities for youth.

Miracle Makers, 2002
Just Think guided a group of middle school girls from the Bayview Safe Haven program in the writing and production of a video entitled Miracle Makers, about grandmothers raising grandchildren in their community. The film was later screened at the Urban Kidz Film Festival, the San Francisco Hip Hop Festival, and the Mill Valley Film Festival.

Where We At, 2001
Young African-American women from San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood learned to reflect and express through video their personal experience with violence and murder in their community through this intensive Just think program. Their completed video, Where We At, was screened in the students’ neighborhood, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and at the Gen-Y Studio of the Sundance Film Festival.

Mapping Ourselves, 2000-2001
In collaboration with the Mexican Museum and the Horace Mann Middle School, Just Think helped sixth through eighth grade Latino students explore color photography, journal writing, digital collage. The students’ large-scale “maps” (posters) of their lives, heritage, and experiences. were displayed on bus shelters throughout San Francisco.

Just Think taught students to investigate how different communities are portrayed in the media, particularly on the Internet, and how to thoughtfully represent their own communities through positive media messages, in collaboration with the OMI/Excelsior Neighborhood Beacon Center. In addition to creating personal websites, students constructed a community site using digital photography, image manipulation, and digital video (2000-2001).

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