AmeriCorps and Service-Learning
AmeriCorps members are working in schools, universities, and community-based organizations across the country implementing, facilitating, and coordinating service-learning. See some examples of how AmeriCorps and service-learning interconnect as well as resources to help support AmeriCorps members involved with service-learning.
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 On the Front Lines of Schools: New Report by Civic Enterprises  As a follow-up to its report three years ago on the dropout crisis in American public education, Civic Enterprises has released a new report that includes the views of teachers and administrators, perspectives missing from its first report.New Open-Access Service-Learning Journal 635 Colleges Make The President's Honor Roll! ACHP Announces Nationwide Grassroots Service Learning Effort (65K pdf). See also the Service-Learning & Historic Preservation page. Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples (SLICE) |
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K-12 Service-Learning Project Planning Toolkit (Updated Edition - 2009) The materials in this toolkit contain information about the 5 core components of a service-learning project: investigation, planning and preparation, the service activity, reflection, and demonstration/celebration. Also included are the K-12 Service-Learning Standard for Quality Practice.  |
How Young People Develop Long-Lasting Habits of Civic Engagement: A Conversation on Building a Research Agenda This report grew out of two meetings held by the Spencer Foundation to inform its Civic Action and Civic Learning initiative. This initiative aims to strengthen work about how and why individuals and groups become committed to civic action. |
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