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Service-Learning At-A-Glance: Selected Resources
 Source:National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, November 2003.

For additional resource lists on these and other service‑learning topics, see the 2003 LSA Handbook Section “Service‑Learning Information on Key Topics” and visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Website at http://www.servicelearning.org.

 
Service-Learning Background

Benson, L. and I. Harkavy. “Integrating the American System of Higher, Secondary, and Primary Education to Develop Civic Responsibility.” In Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, edited by Thomas Ehrlich, 174-196. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 2000.

Pollack, S. “Early Connections Between Service and Education.” In Service-Learning: A Movement’s Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future, edited by Timothy K. Stanton et. al., 12-32. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

** Sigmon, Robert L. “A Service-Learning Timeline.” In Journey to Service-Learning, edited by Robert L. Sigmon and Colleagues, 158-16. Washington, DC: Council of Independent Colleges, 1996.

  
Policy, Standards, and Statistics

** Alliance for Service-Learning in Education Reform. Standards of Quality for School-Based and Community-Based Service-Learning. Alexandria, VA: Close Up Foundation, 1995.

Council of State School Officers. Service Learning: A Guide to Foundation Support. Washington, DC: CSSO, 1997.

Education Commissionof the States.Learning That Lasts: How Service‑Learning Can Become an Integral Part of Schools, States and Communities. Denver: ECS, 2002. http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/40/54/4054.pdf

Education Commission of the States. Service‑Learning and Standards Toolkit. Denver: ECS, 2001.http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/28/02/2802.htm

Education Commission of the States. National Center for Learning and Citizenship's (NCLC) State Policies for Citizenship Education Database. Denver: ECS.http://www.ecs.org/CitizenshipEducationDatabase

** Honnet, Ellen Porter, and Susan J. Poulen. Principles of Good Practice for Combining Service and Learning: A Wingspread Special Report. Racine, WI: The Johnson Foundation, Inc., 1989

** National Center for Education Statistics. Service-Learning and Public Service in K-12 Public Schools. Washington, DC: NCES, 1999. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs99/1999043.pdf 

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Statistics Hot Topic. Scotts Valley, CA: NSLC, n.d.

  
Getting Started

Higher Education

Eyler, J. and D. Giles. “Program Characteristics of Effective Service-Learning.” In Where’s the Learning in Service-Learning, 165-185. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.

Hollander, E., J. Saltmarsh, and E. Zlotkowski. “Indicators of Engagement.” In Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society Through Service Learning, edited by Maureen E. Kenny et. al., 31-49. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

Metz, S. and G. Hesser. “Principles of Good Practice in Service-Learning.” In Service-Learning in Higher Education, edited by Barbara Jacoby and Associates, 26-52. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

** Mihalynuk, Tanis V. and Sarena S. Seifer. “ Risk Management and Liability in Higher Education Service-Learning.” NSLC Fact Sheet. National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2003.

Zlotkowski, E. “Pedagogy and Engagement.” In Colleges and Universities as Citizens, edited by Robert Bringle et. al., 96-120. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.

K-12

** Billig, S. “Adoption, Implementation, and Sustainability of K-12 Service-Learning.” In Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy, edited by Andrew Furco and Shelley H. Billig, 245-267. Greenwich: Information Age Publishing, 2002.

Corporation for National and Community Service. Students in Service to America. Washington, DC: CNCS, 2002. http://www.studentsinservicetoamerica.org 

Dunlap, N. C., S. F. Drew, and K. Gibson. Serving to Learn: High School Manual and Lesson Plans. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Education, 1994.

** Neal, Marybeth. “ Service-Learning in K-12 EducationGenerator 21 no. 3(2003): 7-11.

** Points of Light Foundation. “ Risk Management and Liability.” NSLC Fact Sheet. National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2002.

Pritchard, I. “ Community-Service and Service-Learning in America: The State of the Art.” In Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy, edited by Andrew Furco and Shelley H. Billig, 3-21. Greenwich: Information Age Publishing, 2002.

Stephens, L. "Organizing a Service Project.” In The Complete Guide to Learning through Community Service, 17-27. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Wade, R. “Preparation.” In Community Service-Learning: A Guide to Including Service in the Public School Curriculum. 35-46. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997.

  
Curriculum and Instruction

Higher Education

Colby, A., T. Ehrlich, E. Beaumont, and J. Stephens. “Weaving Moral and Civic Learning into the Curriculum.” In Educating Citizens: Preparing America’s Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility. 167-199. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Hatcher, Julie. Service-Learning Tip Sheets: A Faculty Resource Guide. Indianapolis: Indiana Campus Compact, 1998.

** Heffernan, K. “Course Organization.” In Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Construction. 1-8. Providence, RI: Campus Compact, 2001.

Enos, S. and M. Troppe. “Service-Learning in the Curriculum.” In Service-Learning in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices, edited by Barbara Jacoby and Associates, 156-181. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

K-12

Eyler, J., D. Giles, and A. Schmiede. A Practitioner’s Guide to Reflection in Service-Learning. Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 1996.

Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development, and National 4-H Council. Building Community: A Tool Kit for Youth and Adults in Charting Assets and Creating Change. Takoma Park, MD: Innovation Center, 2001.

Kaye, Cathryn Berger. The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 2003.

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. “ Replication and Expansion Resources Overview.” NSLC Bibliography (October 2003).

Northwest Regional Education Laboratory. Service-Learning Tool Box: Workpages and Checklists to Help You Get Started and Keep You Going. Portland, OR: NWREL, n.d. http://www.nwrel.org/ruraled/learnserve/resources/SL_Toolbox.pdf

Wade, R. “Curriculum Integration.” In Community Service-Learning: A Guide to Including Service in the Public School Curriculum. 79-93. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Wade, R. “Reflection.” In Community Service-Learning: A Guide to Including Service in the Public School Curriculum. 94-112. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997.

  
Civic and Citizenship Education

Battistoni, R. “Service Learning and Civic Education.” In Education for Civic Engagement in Democracy, edited by Sheilah Mann and John Patrick, 29-44. Bloomington, IN: ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, 2000.

** Carnegie Corporation of New York and Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. Civic Mission of Schools Executive Summary. New York: Carnegie Corporation, 2003.
http://civicmissionofschools.org/site/campaign/documents/ExecutiveSummary.pdf (81K pdf)

ECS Service-Learning/Community Service Issue Site. Denver: Education Commission of the States. http://www.ecs.org/html/issue.asp?issueid=109&subissueID=0

Education Commission of the States. National Center for Learning and Citizenship's (NCLC) State Policies for Citizenship Education Database. Denver: ECS.http://www.ecs.org/CitizenshipEducationDatabase

Heffernan, K. “ Civic LessonsThe Journal of Public Affairs 6 (2002): 69-81.

Hepburn, M. “ Service-Learning in Civic Education: A Concept with Long, Sturdy RootsTheory into Practice 36, no. 3(1997): 136-142.

** Education Commission of the States. Every Student a Citizen: Creating the Democratic Self: Executive Summary. Denver: ECS, 2000.http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/16/77/1677.pdf

Mann, Sheilah and John J. Patrick, eds. Education for Civic Engagement on Democracy: Service Learning and Other Promising Practices. Bloomington, IN: ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, 2000.

  
Partnerships

Higher Education

Jacoby, B. “Fundamentals of Service-Learning Partnerships.” In Building Partnerships for Service-Learning, edited by Barbara Jacoby. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

** Mihalynuk, Tanis V. and Sarena S. Seifer. “ Partnerships for Higher Education Service-Learning.” NSLC Fact Sheet. National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2002.

K-12

Kraft, N. “Building Collaborations to Support Service-Learning.” In Building Support for Service-Learning, edited by Shelley H. Billig, 67-88. Denver: RMC Research Corporation, 1998.

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. “ School-Community Partnerships Literature Overview.” NSLC Bibliography (October 2003).

** Points of Light Foundation. “ Building Effective Partnerships in Service-Learning.” NSLC Fact Sheet. National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2002.

  
Evaluation/Assessment and Performance Measurement

The Compendium of Assessment and Research Tools (CART). Denver: RMC Research Corp.http://cart.rmcdenver.com/ 

Gelmon, S., B. Holland, A. Driscoll, A. Spring, and S. Kerrigan. “Assessment Principles and Strategies: An Overview.” In Assessing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement: Principles and Techniques. 1-18. Providence, RI: Campus Compact, 2001.

** Gray, Maryann J., Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras. Combining Service and Learning in Higher Education: Summary Report. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1999. http://www.learnandserve.gov/pdf/sl_highered.pdf

** Melchior, Alan. Summary ReportNational Evaluation of Learn and Serve America School and Community-Based Programs. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Center for Human Resources, 1999. http://www.learnandserve.org/research/lsreport.pdf

National Service‑Learning Clearinghouse Website http://www.servicelearning.org 

National Service Learning Clearinghouse. “ Performance Measures Resources Overview.” NSLC Bibliography (October 2003).

RMC Research. The Educator's Guide to Service-Learning Program Evaluation. Scotts Valley, CA: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, n.d.

** RMC Research. Evaluation Report Colorado Department of Education Service-Learning: Executive Summary. Denver: RMC Research Corp., 2003.

** RMC Research. The Impact of Service-Learning on MEAP: A Large Scale Study of Michigan Learn and Serve Grantees: Executive Summary. Denver: RMC Research Corp., 2003.

RMC Research. Service-Learning Quality Review. Denver: RMC Research Corp., 2003.http://cart.rmcdenver.com/assessment/

Project STAR. Learn and Serve America Program Applicant Performance Measurement Toolkit. Burlingame, CA: ProjectSTAR, 2003. http://www.projectstar.org/star/Learn%20and%20Serve/ls_pmtoolkit.htm 

Shumer, R. “Service-Learning and Evaluation: An Inseparable Process.” In Learning With the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Teacher Education, edited by Joseph Erickson and Jeffrey Anderson, 73-89. Washington, DC: AAHE, 1997.

Shumer, R. Shumer’s Self-Assessment for Service-Learning: Third Year Revised. Scotts Valley, CA: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2000.

U.C. Berkeley Service-Learning Research and Development Center. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley.http://gse.berkeley.edu/research/slc/index.html

United Way of America. Outcome Measurement Resource Network. Alexandria, VA: United Way of America, n.d. http://www.liveunited.org/outcomes/

W.K. Kellogg FoundationEvaluation Handbook. Battle Creek, MI: W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 1998. http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub770.pdf

  
Special Topics

Constitutional Rights Foundation. “Service Learning and Special EducationService Learning Network 9 no. 2 (2002). http://www.crf-usa.org/network/net9_2.htm

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. “ Service-Learning and Students with Disabilities Performing Service.” NSLC Bibliography (September 2003).

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Links to Resources in Service-Learning Topics. Scotts Valley, CA: NSLC.

South Carolina Department of Education. Serving to Learn: Generation-2-Generation. Columbia, SC: SCDE, 2000.

United States Environmental Protection Agency. Service-Learning: Education Beyond the Classroom. Washington, DC: EPA, n.d.http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/education/pdfs/svclearn.pdf 

  
Examples/Case Studies

Higher Education

Campus Compact. Service-Learning Syllabi. Providence, RI: Campus Compact. http://www.compact.org/syllabi/

Crews, Robin. Robin's Guide To: College and University Service-Learning Programs. Boulder, CO: CSU Colorado. http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~rcrews/sl/academic.html

Driscoll, A. “Comprehensive Design of Community Service: New Undertakings, Options, and Vitality in Student Learning at Portland State University.” In Successful Service-Learning Programs, edited by Edward Zlotkowski, 150-168. Boston: Anker Publishing, 1998.

Henry, R. “Community College and Service-Learning: A Natural at Brevard Community College.” In Successful Service-Learning Programs, edited by Edward Zlotkowski, 81-108. Boston: Anker Publishing, 1998.

K-12

Hiott, B.C., W. Lyday, and H. Winecoff. “Service Learning Case Studies.” In Service Learning Handbook for Teacher Educators and Practitioners. 91-116. South Carolina Department of Education, 1998.

Kaye, Cathryn Berger. The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 2004.

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Lesson Plans, Syllabi, and Curricula Links. NSLC Resources and Tools.

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.Learn and Serve America Program Directory. NSLC Resources and Tools.

  
Journals and Newsletters

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Journals and Periodicals List. NSLC Resources and Tools.

Campus Compact Reader
A resource for service-learning faculty in all disciplines,published in the Fall, Winter, and Spring. Articles address democratic citizenship, education reform, civic renewal and the transformation of higher education.
http://www.compact.org/reader/

The Generator. National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC)
http://www.nylc.org/generator.htm 

Metropolitan Universities Journal.Barbara Holland, Executive Editor. Indianapolis: IUPUI.
Each issue reports in-depth on both the theoretical and applied aspects of a current theme affecting colleges and universities. Volume 14, number 3 is a special service-learning issue.
http://muj.uc.iupui.edu/

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Jeffrey Howard, Editor. Ann Arbor: OSCL Press.
Each issue has a variety of peer-reviewed articles related to research, pedagogy, and theory relevant to service-learning.
http://www.umich.edu/~mjcsl/

National Society for Experiential Education Quarterly
Articles from the field of experiential education, including research related to the effectiveness of experiential education techniques, are featured in this quarterly journal. Service-learning is one of the many experiential education methods featured in this journal.
http://www.nsee.org/

Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance Newsletter
Provides tips on how to connect service-learning with the curriculum, academic standards (federal, state and school district standards), and ideas for identifying and addressing local community needs via service-learning.

Public Education Network (PEN) Weekly News Blast
Every week, this email newsletter offers annotated links to articles about education, free updates on education news, and grant alerts.
http://www.publiceducation.org/subscribe.asp

Partnership Matters Newsletter
Published twice a month by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), provides an excellent resource for learning about new publications related to service-learning in the health professions.
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/guide.html#PartMatters

  
Discussion and E-Mail Lists

Email Discussion Lists for Service-Learning. NSLC Resources and Tools.
Provides a list of service-learning related email discussion lists, along with detailed instructions on how to subscribe.

Community-Based Organizations Engaged in Service-Learning (CBO-SL)
Tailored to individuals at community-based organizations engaged in service-learning activities.

You may subscribe to the email discussion list via the web interface at http://lists.etr.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=cbo-sl
OR
Send an email to join-cbo-sl@lists.etr.org following these instructions:

  1. Leave the subject line blank
  2. Remove any appended signatures

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Email Discussion List (CCPH)
A email discussion list for communities and campuses interested in service-learning and other community-campus partnerships that involve health professional schools and programs. To subscribe send an email with your request to Rose Coroneos at rosecor@u.washington.edu.

Higher Education Service-Learning Email Discussion List (HE-SL)
Provides a forum for the discussion of issues concerning the higher education service-learning community. HE-SL Email Discussion List discussions have evolved around curriculum requests, class assignments and the institutionalization of service-learning.  Join the list online at http://lists.etr.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=he-sl

K-12 Service-Learning Email Discussion List (K12-SL)
Provides a forum for the discussion of issues concerning the K-12 service-learning community. Some of the past discussions have involved project ideas, information requests and current service-learning news. 
Join the list online at http://lists.etr.org/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=k12-sl

On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (COMM-ORG)
Postings cover organizing stories, discussion of issues in community organizing and related areas such as community development, community-based planning, and community-based research. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/ 

Service-Learning Email Discussion List Hosted by Communications for Sustainable Future at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CSF)
An active and informative email discussion list for the entire service-learning community.http://www.evergreen.loyola.edu/~rcrews/sl/archives/index.html

  
Other Organizations

American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Service-Learning Clearinghouse
http://www.aacc.nche.edu
The AACC Service Learning Clearinghouse offers a variety of free materials from its national project, Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, and from other community college service learning programs. The Clearinghouse also provides community colleges with referrals to other colleges currently offering service learning.

Campus Compact
http://www.compact.org
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 900 college and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. To support this civic mission, Campus Compact promotes community service that develops students' citizenship skills and values, encourages partnerships between campuses and communities, and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research.

National Collaboration for Youth andNational Youth Development Information Center (NYDIC)
http://www.nydic.org/nydic/
NYDIC provides practice-related information about youth development to national and local youth-serving organizations at low cost or no cost.

National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC)
http://www.nylc.org
The NYLC's mission is to build vital, just communities with young people through service-learning. As one of America's most prominent advocates of service-learning and national service, NYLC is at the forefront of efforts to reform education and guide youth-oriented public policy.They help practitioners, students, researchers and policymakers learn about and implement service-learning.

State Education Agency K-12 Service-Learning Network (SEANet)
http://www.seanetonline.org
SEANet is a national network of staff from state education agencies and other organizations designated by a state education agency that provide leadership for statewide K-12 school-based service-learning initiatives.

** Item included in Learn and Serve America Handbook provided to Program Managers

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