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Middle school students who have been expelled from Metropolitan School District in Indianapolis are given the chance to reenter the district without falling behind in school. The non-traditional...
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Research shows that students who participate in high quality service-learning experiences typically become more engaged in learning as shown by increased attendance and motivation to learn. But how...
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Sandra Naughton's National Service Fellows report, Youth and Communities Helping Each Other: Community-Based Organizations Using Service-Learning as a Strategy During Out-of-School Time, offers...
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Each year students and teachers in the Lake-Lehman School District (PA) build capacity for service-learning by taking part in Project GIVE (Gaining Insights with Volunteer Experiences). During...
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This effective practice offers a collection of community service and service-learning project ideas appropriate for young students. The ideas were compiled from a discussion on the ACList (AmeriCorps...
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A university business professor has created service-learning opportunities related to business and economic literacy that often involve mentoring younger students. His students participate as teams...
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An elementary teacher led her class through an environmental service-learning project on school grounds. By allowing for considerable student input, school-wide buy-in was achieved and many valuable...
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As the general population enjoys increased longevity, traditional notions of old age and retirement are no longer applicable, and more and more older workers wish to remain economically active. Other...
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Service-learning combines service with learning in intentional ways. Volunteer activities without a learning component are equally important, but the two approaches are fundamentally different...
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Taylor Elementary School in San Francisco, CA, operates a school-wide service-learning program using AmeriCorps members as service-learning coordinators. In order to ensure information is passed on...
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Leadership programs that emphasize civic engagement, public service, and/or service-learning are growing rapidly, as service-learning grows nationwide. This effective practice, compiled from a...
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Schools are a perfect place to teach composting and recycling habits that can last a lifetime. However, sometimes busy teachers and students can use additional motivation and support. At the...
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This effective practice details how to stencil storm drains in order to alert citizens that toxins dumped out into the street wind up in the nearest body of water. The material is excerpted from the...
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For a kindergarten at Haverford School in Pennsylvania, service-learning begins with discussion aimed at raising awareness prior to a trip to a local nursing home. Service-learning educators who were...
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The "definitions of service" exercise, developed by the service-learning program director at the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, is a valuable way to explore the numerous...
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While some schools devote a course or a project to service-learning, others have found that integrating it into all aspects of the students' education works best. At Langley Middle School, in Langley...
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The Volunteer Center of the United Way of Wyandotte County's Power of Five program incorporates curriculum produced by America's Promise Alliance and introduces middle school students to the concept...
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As a result of a Learn and Serve America grant and the key partnerships that were developed with the Alameda County Office of Education, the East Bay Community Foundation's Arts Partnerships for...
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During the summer of 2002, teens from all over the country traveled to the 87,000 acre Chico Basin Ranch in Colorado Springs, Colorado, serving as ranch hands to accomplish much-needed manual labor...
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Niagara University in Lewiston, New York, was established by the Venetian Fathers and Brothers, using the model of the order's founder, French priest St. Vincent de Paul, who devoted his life to...
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Using service-learning to develop civic responsibility allows community colleges to fulfill their basic mission of providing a quality educational experience and serve the needs of the community....
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An underlying goal of community colleges is to serve the community, and service-learning can be an ideal vehicle for this to occur. This effective practice offers ideas for service-learning...
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The service-learning coordinator at Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, Virginia arranged with the host of HearSay, a high-quality daily call-in show that discusses issues of interest to the...
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In Gates County, North Carolina, high school and middle school Peers Empowering Peers (PEP) volunteers promote literacy by producing book dramatizations for and with students at local elementary...
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Promoting service-learning and citizenship education in K-12 schools and institutions of higher education is a large undertaking that requires a unique collaboration. In Florida, the Florida Alliance...
