Students in the Introduction to Communications course participated in a small group activity during class time developing a poster explaining the differences between aggressive, non-assertive, passive aggressive, and assertive communication styles. Knowing the difference between the different types of communication styles will help the students better understand the communication process and how to participate effectively. Intro ...more about Student Stories: Intro to Communications In-Class Activity
OLS Internship Coordinator Pilar López was recently interviewed in Lyn Miller-Lachmann's blog post Working While Autistic: How Internships Can Help. In her post, Lyn illustrates her own struggles with an internship and talks about what programs can do to help make internships more successful for people with autism. Pilar shared how OLS approaches internships to help ...more about OLS Staff Member Featured in Internship Blog Post
The Social Change class in the OLS Program is working to make an impact in our community. As a service learning project, our students have organized a donation drive to help homeless youth. Hundreds of young people are living on the streets; as our way of contributing to the community, we want to help them stay warm ...more about Service Learning: YouthCare Donation Drive
One of our OLS graduates from the class of 2017 was recently interviewed as part of a video with Open Doors for Multicultural Families, a non-profit organization dedicated to the needs of diverse families who have loved ones with developmental disabilities and special health care needs. In this video, Ky discusses disclosure, a topic students learn ...more about OLS Alumna Discusses Disclosure
This quarter students taking Personal Finance with Nathan Schloetel worked in small groups to solve eight everyday finance situations such as how to find out the unit cost of items to determine which one was the best value and figuring out the discounted price of an item. Students expressed an increase confidence and understanding of ...more about Student Stories: Personal Finance In-Class Activity
Our students currently taking Nutrition, Health, & Fitness 1 with Marie Koole participated in a great service learning activity making healthy, non-perishable trail mix for Camp Unity Eastside. The students shopped for ingredients and read food labels, prepared the trail mix, and delivered it to the camp. The students also toured the camp and learned about food storage and health ...more about Camp Unity
Justin Azevedo lives, what some might consider, an exciting double life outside the halls of OLS. When he’s not attending class, and participating in community activities, he’s known as blogger, "DarkShadow" - a character he based on himself. So, when job shadow time came around here at OLS, Justin chose to volunteer at Emerald City Comic-Con, where, ...more about DarkShadow
OLS at Bellevue College is honored to be recognized as a finalist for the 2016 American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Awards of Excellence for the Student Success Award.
Students at OLS all have varying, and sometimes multiple learning disabilities. At times, these disabilities can cause difficulty with social interaction. When our Associate Dean started at OLS, she wanted to find a way to teach our students how to interact socially in different environments. Our experience as a teaching staff allowed us to quickly ...more about Socially Infused Instruction
Meet Sebastian, also known as “Bash”. Bash is an OLS at Bellevue College alumnus who graduated in 2015. His story is one of success, although somewhat atypical, as it came by way of overcoming career setbacks in order to find new opportunities when challenges were presented. When Bash first graduated from OLS, he began working as ...more about Sebastian’s Story
