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  • Interdisciplinary Models of Service-Learning in Higher Education
    Source: Kara Connors and Sarena D. Seifer, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, September 2005.IntroductionThe combination of service-learning and interdisciplinary learning is gaining momentum in higher education. A growing body of evidence...
  • Math and Service-Learning in Higher Education
    Source: Rachel L. Vaughn, Sarena D. Seifer, and Tanis Vye Mihalynuk, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, May 2004 Service-learning in the mathematics curriculum provides a rich opportunity for students to learn while contributing to their...
  • 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...
  • Partnerships for Higher Education Service-Learning
    Source: Tanis Vye Mihalynuk & Sarena D. Seifer, Community Campus Partnerships for Health, September 2002; Updated: NSLC Staff, October 2004IntroductionPartnerships serve as the foundation of service-learning programs in higher education. These...
  • 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,...
  • Publishing and Presenting in Service-Learning
    Source: Rachel L. Vaughn, Sarena D. Seifer, and Tanis Vye Mihalynuk, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, January 2004Service-learning is becoming increasingly prominent in higher education. Consequently, there has also been an increase in...
  • Raising Funds for Service-Learning in Higher Education
    Source: Sarena D. Seifer and Stacy Holmes, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, June 2002Acknowledgments: CCPH would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions to parts of this document: Dr. Barry Daneman, University of Missouri...
  • 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...
  • Recognizing Service-Learning in Higher Education through Minors and Certificates
    Source: Rachel L. Vaughn and Sarena D. Seifer, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, June 2004. Updated February 2012 with resources from Dan W. Butin. Minors and certificate programs focused on service-learning, leadership, and/or community service...
  • Reflection in Higher Education Service-Learning
    Source: Kara Connors and Sarena D. Seifer, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, September 2005The process of reflection is a core component of service-learning. Service-learning practitioners and researchers alike have concluded that the most...
  • 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...
  • Research Standards and Protection of Human Subjects
    Source: RMC Research Corporation, October 2002IntroductionAnyone conducting service-learning research or evaluation should be aware of the research standards and guidance for protection of human subjects. The following provides a brief summary and where...
  • 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...
  • Risk Management and Liability in Higher Education Service-Learning
    Source: Tanis V. Mihalynuk and Sarena D. Seifer, Community Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), February 2003, updated by Pam Mutascio, Campus Compact, September 2008DisclaimerThis fact sheet is not intended to be a legal document nor to replace legal...
  • 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....