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Service-Learning

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Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities.

Through service-learning, young people- from kindergartners to college students- use what they learn in the classroom to solve real-life problems. They not only learn the practical applications of their studies, they become actively contributing citizens and community members through the service they perform.

Service-learning can be applied in a wide variety of settings, including schools, universities and community-based and faith-based organizations. It can involve a group of students, a classroom or an entire school. Students build character and become active participants as they work with others in their school and community to create service projects in areas such as education, public safety and the environment. 
                                         -Definition from National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

Resources

Engaged for Success
Service-learning as a tool for high school dropout prevention

High Quality Instruction that Transforms
A guide to implementing quality academic service learning

K-12 Service-Learning Project Planning Toolkit
Information about the five core competencies of a service-learning project

K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice
8 standards necessary for a quality service-learning program

LIFT: Raising the Bar for Service-Learning Practice
A multimedia learning experience based on the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. It contains hundreds of resources to help you infuse your service-learning projects with best practices.

Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples (SLICE)
An easy-to-search database full of hundreds of high-quality service-learning lesson plans, syllabi and project ideas

Service-Learning in Community-Based Organizations
A practical guide to starting and sustaining high-quality programs

Service-Learning Lesson Plans
Service-learning experiences and lesson plans for teachers

Service-Learning Project Examples
Looking for project ideas? Browse by academic subjects, grade levels, project types and keywords


Websites

Go To Service-Learning

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

National Youth Leadership Council

Youth Serve America


Webinars

Service-Learning: A Dropout Prevention Strategy and MORE!
A 2009 National Dropout Prevention Center Webcast

Keeping Youth In School- How Service-Learning Can Help!
A 2008 National Dropout Prevention Center Webcast
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