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  • AmeriCorps and Service-Learning 101
    Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, June 2009. This fact sheet introduces core information about service-learning to AmeriCorps members working in educational settings and looking to enhance their experience of learning through service, and...
  • AmeriCorps, Service-Learning, and Community: Working to Address Community Needs and Strengths
    Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, June 2009. This fact sheet introduces community assessment to AmeriCorps members working in educational settings and looking to enhance their experience of learning through service, and for anyone...
  • Building Effective Partnerships in Service-Learning
    Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2008. Effective partnerships between agencies, schools, colleges or universities, businesses, government, and residents for the benefits of the community are a vital part of youth service in America....
  • Character Education and Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, September 2006 How Does Current Research in Character Education Support Service-Learning? Research conducted by RMC Research Corporation (2005) found that students who participated in the Partnerships in Character...
  • Charter Schools (K-12)
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, Denver, CO, May 2004Charter schools are public schools created as an alternative to traditional public schools. They operate free from many traditional district and state rules regarding curriculum, hiring practices, and...
  • Citizenship and Service-Learning in K-12 Schools
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, January 2003 Updated: May 2005 and April 2007 Introduction "Serving others is not just a form of do-goodism or feel-goodism, it is a road to social responsibility and citizenship. When linked closely to...
  • Civics in K-12 Education
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, Denver, CO, May 2004Recent surveys raise concerns about the decline of civic education and the willingness of young people to assume active citizenship roles (Keeter, Zukin, Andolina, & Jenkins, 2002; National...
  • Democratic Classrooms
    Source: RMC Corporation, Denver, CO, May 2004 Democratic classrooms are those in which the curriculum actively engages students in collaborative inquiry decision making is shared between students and staff and students choose their daily activities....
  • Dropout Prevention and Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, October 2008 In 2001, the U.S. Department of Labor estimated that 5.2 million young people, aged 16-24, had not completed high school, were unemployed, and were not serving in the military. These "disconnected"...
  • Engaging Families in Service: Broadening Service-Learning's Reach, Impact, and Support
    Source: Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Search Institute, and Jenny Friedman, Doing Good Together, March 2009"Can you imagine anything more energizing, more unifying, more filled with satisfaction than working with members of your family to accomplish...
  • Funding for K-12 Service-Learning Programs
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, Denver, CO, July 2004, Updated July 2008 Service-learning programs can be funded in several basic ways, including through Learn and Serve subgrants, foundation funding, and fundraising. Ideally, funds for school-based...
  • Homeland Security and K-12 Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, April 2006This fact sheet addresses K-12 service-learning activities that are focused on homeland security. Background information is presented first, followed by a sample of project descriptions intended to provide a...
  • Impacts of Service-Learning on Participating K-12 Students
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, December 2002 Updated May 2007The studies summarized below build on the research outlined in Billig's May 2000 article in Phi Delta Kappan and subsequent research updates from RMC Research in 2001 and 2005.Academic...
  • Improving Outcomes for K-12 Service-Learning Participants
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, May 2007 Several new studies have recently been completed that illuminate the characteristics of service-learning practice most closely associated with student outcomes. These studies, conducted with different populations...
  • Parent and Family Involvement in K-12 Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, Denver, CO, May 2004 Service-learning programs can offer parents and families the opportunity to participate in innovative learning experiences, and to become engaged in their children's schools in unique ways. Research...
  • Policy: K-12 Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, May 2007. As service-learning continues to become more prevalent, states are adopting policies that both support and regulate its practice. Some states address issues of mandatory service while others focus on...
  • Professional Development for Service-Learning Practitioners
    Source: Shelley H. Billig, RMC Research Corporation, September 2010. Like people in all fields, service-learning practitioners need to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to be effective in implementing activities. The value of professional...
  • Public Health and Service-Learning
    Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, October 2008.This resource gives an overview of service-learning and provides a list of resources and research on service-learning and public health. Service-learning is a teaching approach in K-12,...
  • Recognition in Service-Learning
    Source: Points of Light Foundation, March 2002.Find new ideas for recognizing your service-learning participants, learn how to select appropriate forms of recognition, and get the resources you need to create a successful recognition program. The...
  • Reflection in K-12 Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, March 2003. Updated September 2007. IntroductionIn today's world, it is easy for youth to look for instant solutions to complex problems. Reflection in service-learning provides students and teachers with a way to look...
  • Research in Support of Youth Voice and Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, May 2007.Youth voice refers to the process of involving young people in decisions that affect their own lives and those of their peers. Recently, there has been a growing trend toward increasing youth voice in...
  • Resilience
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, May 2004.The concept of resilience is based on the theory that particular traits or "protective factors" such as caring relationships and high expectations help strengthen people's ability to persist during...
  • Resources for AmeriCorps Members
    Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, June 2009.This fact sheet includes resources for those who are interested in finding a way to increase civic engagement, academic, personal, and social outcomes of youth and students. For AmeriCorps...
  • Risk Management and Liability
    Source: Points of Light Foundation, October 2002.IntroductionThe terms risk management and liability strike terror into the hearts of service-learning program managers. However, this does not need to be the case. This fact sheet provides tips for staying...
  • Service-Learning with Disadvantaged Youth
    Source: Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Search Institute, December 2007 On average, it's harder to grow up well when you live in poverty. Indeed, low socioeconomic status (SES) is negatively linked to a wide range of indicators of child and adolescent well...
  • Standards and Indicators for Effective Service-Learning Practice
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, July 2008 In April 2008, the National Youth Leadership Council released the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. These standards grew out of a need to update conventional wisdom about quality...
  • STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) Education and Service-Learning
    Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, October 2010.STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and usually refers to education in one or more of these disciplines. There has been a concern over the past several...
  • Student Engagement and Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, July 2008. Engagement in learning is closely linked to student achievement and other outcomes, such as reduced dropout rates and youth risk behaviors (Blank, 1997; Dev, 1997; Dryfoos, 1990; Woods, 1995).  School...
  • Sustaining Service-Learning in K-12 Schools
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, September 2006 Introduction Teachers in many schools have adopted service-learning as a practice for teaching something of value—be it content knowledge and skills, personal responsibility and efficacy, civic...
  • Teacher Education and Service-Learning
    Source: Shelley Billig and Felicia Freeman, RMC Research Corporation, August 2010.One approach for advancing the practice of service-learning is to promote the adoption of service-learning as an instructional strategy for teacher education programs....
  • Why Districts, Schools, and Classrooms Should Practice Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, January 2003. Updated June 2007. Service-learning should be practiced in schools because it yields so many simultaneous benefits. It is what many educators consider a "value-added" approach because it helps...
  • Youth Development and K-12 Service-Learning
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, Denver, CO, September 2005 Schools are often faced with the need to address problem behaviors in youth such as substance abuse, violence, and dropping out. Recent research on what leads youth to engage in these particular...
  • Youth Voice in Service-Learning
    Source: Points of Light Foundation, 2001 Introduction to youth voice Youth voice refers to the ideas, opinions, involvement and initiatives of people considered to be young. Traditionally "young people" are defined as between the ages of 5-25....