Meet the Team Leaders: Rebecca Dunckley

Rebecca Dunckley, CalSERVES Team Leader at Kawana Elementary

A local to the North Bay area and with first-hand experience on how after school programs can change a child’s life, Rebecca Dunckley is the Team Leader at Kawana Elementary School. This is Rebecca’s third year working for the CalSERVES program and her love for the program and how it positively impacts children’s lives is what has kept her involved with CalSERVES for so long.

As a team leader, Rebecca hopes to become an active and strong support system for her AmeriCorps members and wants to help them be great tutors/mentors for the students. She loves watching people work together and come up with creative ideas that can help the students grow and learn. As for working with the students, Rebecca wants to be a source of confidence for the kids; she wants to establish one-on-one relationships with her students and make them feel comfortable enough to go to her for help of any kind. Additionally, Rebecca is extremely excited and appreciative about the team at Kawana. She says that they have been tremendously patient with her as she learns and adjusts to the job as team leader. Classroom leaders and AmeriCorps members alike are amazing with their students and are always coming up with amazing lessons for the kids. Rebecca also is grateful for the support from her site supervisor, Katherine Brooks, whom Rebecca says has been helpful, supportive, sweet, and fabulous at her job and Rebecca is honored to be a part of her team.

Overall, as a team leader, Rebecca hopes to be a role model that the students can look to for advice or guidance and help be a positive force in a really important time and area of these kids’ lives. Rebecca states that she gets to leave work every day knowing that she is making a difference in these students’ lives and that is something that she loves.

As for advice for future Team Leaders or Service Scholars, Rebecca says to wear really good and comfortable shoes; "you are all over this place and you won’t be able to sit down a whole lot!"

By: Jacquelene Bennett, AmeriCorps Content Leader
 and Rebecca Dunckley, AmeriCorps Team Leader, Kawana Elementary