Pauma Elementary

33158 Cole Grade Rd.

Pauma Valley, CA 92061

(760) 742- 3741

Lil’ Champs at Pauma Elementary

Lil’ Champs activity at Pauma Elementary is an innovation of La Clase Mágica. Located in the northeastern corner of San Diego County about 65 miles from UCSD this activity serves both Latino and American Indian children from the Pauma Band of Luiseno (Mission) Indians.  It serves an average of 40 children from Pre K – 3rd grade who attend Pauma Elementary School. Collaborative exploration of educational software and email or letter writing to other program participants are some of the activities Lil’ Champs children participate in.

St. Leo’s Mission

939 Genevieve Street

Solana Beach, CA 92075

(858) 350-8648

La Clase Mágica at St. Leo’s Mission

LCM at St. Leo’s Mission serves an average of 25, 5 to 16 year old children. The children engage in pre-arranged series of computer and telecommunication activities supported by especially designed bilingual/bicultural materials involving reading, writing, math and science. Learners have the opportunity to work on homework and participate in special studies inside and outside the classroom.

Through computer games and special activities children enforce the same skills they are learning in their classroom while having fun at the same time. 

Mi Clase Mágica at St. Leo’s Mission

MCM at St. Leo’s Mission serves an average of 70 children enrolled in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program for children ages 3 to 5. MCM sessions run concurrently with the Head Start Program so that children can receive attention for short periods of time both in the classroom and the computer room. Sessions are one hour and a half in which students get to work with an average of 3 children.

Through computer games the children develop basic computer skills and learn fundamental skills such as recognizing letters, colors, figures and numbers.  Most importantly they feel safe and comfortable using the computers. They learn to master the mouse and eventually the computers games, and often times they end up teaching the undergraduate how to play the game. These children develop confidence and self-esteem while learning at the same time with Mi Clase Magica.

Orange Place

1500 Orange Place

Escondido, CA 92025

(760) 745-1500

La Clase Mágica (LCM) at Orange Place Learning Center

La Clase Mágica activity takes place in a learning center situated within an apartment complex called Orange Place and provides an on-site homework assistance program for resident children. LCM supplements the educational services of the community center through bilingual and bicultural computer mediated activities targeting the 20 or so school aged children who currently attend the Homework Assistance Program.

Casa Familiar Community Center

268 East Park Avenue

San Ysidro, CA 92173

(619) 690-3922

La Clase Mágica (LCM) at Casa Familiar Community Center

La Clase Mágica at Casa Familiar serves an average of 12, 5 to 12 year old children.  Casa Familiar, a non-profit community service agency located right on the U.S. – Mexico border, offers two activities of LCM for elementary school aged children. Undergraduates work in collaboration with elementary school aged children and their parents on Spanish-English bilingual computer activities. The goals are first to engage children and their parents in academic type interactions that will prepare them to meet the requirement of K-12 and higher education institutions: problem-solving and meaning-making skills and second to provide a continuity of experience in which children and adults come to understand the social and cultural conditions that constitute each other’s learning. Casa Familiar members assist and help coordinate activities with undergraduates and the children and parents.

San Pasqual Band of Indians, Education Department

16152 Kumeyaay Way

Valley Center, CA 92082

(760) 751 – 1474 x 121

T.A.C.K.L.E at San Pasqual Education Department

T.A.C.K.L.E which stands for Technology and Cultural Kumeyaay Literacy Education at San Pasqual is an innovation of La Clase Mágica. It serves an average of 20 children from 1st through 5th grade that live in the San Pasqual Indian Reservation.

TACKLE is a computer literacy program that enriches language arts, math, ‘lipay language and computer skills.  The San Pasqual Band of Mission (Kumeyaay) Indians is located about 40 miles north of San Diego and 12 miles from Escondido, adjoining the community of Valley Center and other residents along Highway S-6. This site opened in Spring 2002 and utilizes web-based tutoring and mentoring with undergraduate students from Palomar College and UCSD. Located in the San Pasqual Education Department within the San Pasqual American Indian Reservation this activity adapts the La Clase Mágica model of after school activities to a new setting, and also participates in the language-revitalization efforts at San Pasqual.  Among the activities children participate in collaborative exploration of educational software and email or offline letter writing to their electronic entity Shuulau Shuuluk.