Media Coverage of Steve’s Students
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On March 2, 2022, Bexley High School turned the keys over to the senior class, letting them become the teachers for a day. Check out what happened in the school’s first ever Senior Takeover.
Steven Shapiro, coordinator of experiential learning at Bexley City Schools, trains school staff and works with Central Ohio community partners to develop and implement experiential learning opportunities, driven by his belief that such programming helps students learn and find their own voice and passions.
Springsteen guitarist, actor, artist, and activist Little Steven Van Zandt stopped by Mosaic to talk with Steve’s students about merging art and activism. Hear his message to the students and watch as he catches up with two students who took his message to heart.
The Columbus Dispatch stopped by to hear Little Steven Van Zandt talk to Mosaic students. Van Zandt reflected on how he used music as a platform for activism and encouraged Steve’s students to utilize their creativity as a tool for social change.
For nearly 30 years Mosaic has been reimagining the high school experience for Franklin County teens. This Columbus Dispatch feature explores how Mosaic puts students in the driver’s seat of their own education by promoting curiosity, creativity, community, and passion.
In the days after Donald Trump’s election, the Dispatch editorial board visited Mosaic students to hear their perspectives. Their conclusion: “Wow. What are they teaching at Mosaic? Reasoning, tolerance and civics?”
The Rev. Virginia Lohmann Bauman, pastor of St. John’s Church, poses for a selfie with Leena Ayesh, 17, a student at Mosaic. Mosaic students joined religious leaders from across Columbus for an interfaith rally to combat a wave of Islamophobia.
Host Sue Misiak speaks with Steve Shapiro, the Program Director of Mosaic, and two of his students, Mark Kemp and Erica Lyon. They discuss this unique program that provides humanities-based educational experiences, igniting students’ passion for learning.
For 18 years, Steve facilitated and served as program director for an experiential high school humanities program. In this 2011 promo, he and his students share the power of experiential learning.
When their four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the Shapiro family fought back, assembling a group of nearly 50 friends to walk for “Rachael’s Team” in the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation’s Walk for the Cure.
Steve's Community Action students work the political process to get Reynoldsburg to change its curfew law.
Steve's Community Action students raise money and awareness for the sick child of a Reynoldsburg High School teacher.
Derek Snow, 16, handed out food Friday to 800 people at the St. Francis Soup Kitchen in Over-the-Rhine. Derek and other students from first-year teacher Steve Shapiro’s history class at Cincinnati’s School for Creative and Performing Arts are volunteering to work at the soup kitchen near their school.
As a young man Steve spent nine months traveling around the world. You won’t believe how he funded that life-changing learning experience!