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| |  | Benefits of Community-Based Service-Learning |
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This fact sheet highlights some of the emerging knowledge in this field based on theory, process evaluations, and field wisdom—knowing that more rigorous research is needed.
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| | | Building Effective Partnerships in Service-Learning |
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partnerships between agencies, schools, colleges or universities,
businesses, government, and residents for the benefit of the community
are a vital part of youth service in America. This fact sheet provides
resources that will get you thinking about how to develop and sustain
these partnerships. |
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| | | Character Education and Service-Learning |
| | | Learn more about the integral relationship of character education and service-learning.
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Charter Schools (K-12) |
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Charter schools are public schools created as an alternative to traditional public schools. The resources on this page will provide you with more facts regarding the creation, administration, and success of charter schools across the nation as well as state specific information. |
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Chemistry & Service-Learning in Higher Education |
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Service-learning in the chemistry curriculum provides a rich opportunity for students to learn while contributing to their communities. This fact sheet provides project ideas and sources for further information. |
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| | | Citizenship and Service-Learning in K-12 Schools |
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The research on service-learning and citizenship in K-12 schools is
growing rapidly as the issue of citizenship takes center stage on the
national level. This fact sheet provides a very brief discussion of
several of the emergent issues discovered in the research and provides
extended abstracts of a few key studies. |
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Civics in K-12 Education |
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This Fact sheet discusses the relationship between service-learning and civic education in K-12 schools. |
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Curriculum Development for K-12 Service-Learning |
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High-quality service-learning projects must be organized to maximize the meaningfulness of both service and learning. This fact sheet provides a framework for effective service-learning curriculum development. |
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Democratic Classrooms |
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Find information and resources on democratic classrooms, 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. |
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Developing Partnerships for Service-Learning: Starting Points for Community-Based Organizations |
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 Forming partnerships is key to effective service-learning. Schools, youth-serving organizations, and faith-based organizations often seek community-based partners as service sites. Young people reach out to agencies as they implement projects. Social service and cause-related organizations seek partners in schools and universities as a way to increase their capacity to meet community needs.
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| | | Developmental Assets: A Framework for Enriching Service-Learning |
| | | This brief introduces one framework for positive youth development (PYD), known as Developmental Assets, as a tool for enriching service-learning. |
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| | | Developing Service-Learning Scholarship: Actions & Issues to Consider |
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service-learning (SL) becomes increasingly widespread in higher
education, more opportunities are emerging for SL practitioners to
pursue scholarship. This fact sheet provides a brief overview of
contemporary issues regarding scholarship in higher education. |
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| | | Discipline-Specific Service-Learning Resources for Higher Education |
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number of discipline-specific service-learning resources available
including print publications, web sites, electronic discussion groups
and expert faculty. |
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Engineering Education and Service-Learning |
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Service-Learning in engineering education is gaining ground throughout the country and throughout the variety of disciplinary focuses within engineering education. This brief gives an introduction to service-learning in engineering and provides sources for further information. |
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| | | The Evidence Base for Service-Learning in Higher Education |
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summary of publications, journals, and websites can help keep you
up-to-date on the constantly evolving evidence base for
service-learning in higher education. |
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Funding for K-12 Service-Learning Programs |
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This page may be helpful to those designing a funding strategy and finding funding sources for K-12 service-learning programs. |
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| | | Higher Education Service-Learning in Rural Communities |
| | | Service learning can provide significant benefits to students, faculty and communities, whether it occurs in rural, urban or suburban settings. This document is intended to offer additional considerations, information and resources for developing and sustaining service-learning in rural communities. |
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| | | Homeland Security and K-12 Service-Learning |
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This 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 sense of the nature and extent of homeland security-related programs
that are currently in place. The next section presents brief
descriptions of curricula and related resources and organizations that
support homeland security activities. The fact sheet concludes with an
annotated bibliography of homeland security-related resources. |
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| | | Impacts of Service-Learning on Participating K-12 Students |
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Service-learning approaches used in K-12 schools have been found in
many studies to have positive impacts on students' academic
achievement, civic engagement, career aspirations, and social/personal
development. This fact sheet provides an update and summary of research
on K-12 service-learning impacts published since 1999. |
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| | | Improving Outcomes for K-12 Service-Learning Participants |
| | | 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 and examining multiple kinds of service-learning programs and approaches, have relatively consistent findings. The studies are summarized on this fact sheet, and a link to the full study is provided. |
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| | | Institutional Structures for Service-Learning In Higher Education |
| | | Learn about institutional structures that can help sustain and institutionalize service-learning in colleges and universities. |
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| | | Interdisciplinary Models of Service-Learning in Higher Education |
| | | The combination of service-learning and interdisciplinary
learning is gaining momentum in higher education. A growing body of evidence
identifies promising and lasting outcomes associated with their integration.
This fact sheet highlights successful interdisciplinary models of service-learning
in higher education and relevant resources. |
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Math & Service-Learning in Higher Education |
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This fact sheet looks at the opportunities for integrating service-learning into math curriculum and provides a list of web and print resources on the topic. |
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Parent & Family Involvement in K-12 Service-Learning |
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Learn how 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. |
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| | | Partnerships for Higher Education Service-Learning |
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serve as the foundation of service-learning programs in higher
education. This fact sheet is written for administrators, faculty and
staff from colleges and universities who seek to strengthen their
service-learning partnerships. |
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| | | Policy, K-12 Service-Learning |
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The development of state policies legitimizes the practice of
service-learning. It also provides mechanisms for stable funding and
development of guidelines for service-learning programs at the local
school levels. This fact sheet will help you understand K-12
service-learning policy. |
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Prevention and K-12 Service-Learning |
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Service-learning can be an effective strategy for prevention of at-risk behaviors such as substance abuse, violence, suicide, and dropping out. This fact sheet briefly discusses K-12 service-learning and prevention and provides a list of useful resources. |
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Publishing & Presenting in Service-Learning |
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This fact sheet is intended to provide a synopsis of where and how to present and publish service-learning in higher education materials. |
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| | | Raising Funds for Service-Learning in Higher Education |
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fact sheet provides a list of actions to take, resources to consider,
and other tools to help you raise funds for higher education
service-learning programs. |
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| | | Recognition in Service-Learning |
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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. |
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Recognizing Service-Learning in Higher Education through Minors & Certificates |
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This fact sheet provides an overview of institutions with minor and certificate programs focused on service-learning, leadership, and/or community service. |
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| | | Reflection in Higher Education Service-Learning |
| | | The process of reflection is a core component
of service-learning. Service-learning practitioners and researchers alike
have concluded that the most effective service-learning experiences are
those that provide “structured opportunities” for learners to critically
reflect upon their service experience. This fact sheet provides an overview
of reflection in higher education service-learning and links to helpful
resources. |
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| | | Reflection: K-12 Service-Learning |
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Reflection in service-learning provides students and teachers with a
way to look back at their experiences, evaluate them, and apply what is
learned to future experiences. This fact sheet helps students build
skills necessary for analyzing and solving problems and developing
creative solutions. |
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| | | Research in Support of Youth Voice and Service-Learning |
| | | 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 service-learning, schools, and community organizations (Zeldin, et al. 2003; Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth, 2002). |
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| | | Research Standards and Protection of Human Subjects |
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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 to go for additional
information. |
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Resilience |
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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 adversity. This fact sheet discusses how service-learning programs that build in protective factors can also help build students’ resiliency. |
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| | | Risk Management and Liability |
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The 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 on top of liability
issues and limiting risk. |
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| | | Risk Management and Liability in Higher Education Service-Learning |
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avoid health and legal liability, risk management procedures need to be
considered before starting any service-learning experience. This fact
sheet provides background information and a describes a systematic
approach to establishing a safe, minimal risk environment for all
participants involved in service-learning. |
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Service-Learning with Disadvantaged Youth |
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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-being (Beauvais & Jensen 2003; Evans 2004; Hawkins et. al., 2000). At the same time, growing up poor does not seal one’s destiny. |
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Student Engagement in K-12 |
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This fact sheet briefly discusses several aspects of service-learning that research has identified as likely to increase student engagement. |
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| | | Sustaining Service-Learning in K-12 Schools |
| | | How can service-learning be sustained in an educational environment
that stresses accountability and evidence-based practice? This fact
sheet provides a summary of some research on service-learning
sustainability. |
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Teacher Education & Service-Learning |
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This fact sheet discusses the benefits of service-learning in teacher education and provides a list of resources for further information on this topic. |
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| | | Tools and Methods for Evaluating Service-Learning in Higher Education |
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discussion of issues to consider, a summary of websites, and a list of
publications that provide background, tools, and resources for
evaluating service-learning in higher education. |
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| | | Traditional Values and Service-Learning |
| | | This fact sheet provides information on linking service-learning activities
to tribally-specific traditional values. |
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| | | Tribal Service-Learning Programs |
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View lists of tribal programs, find examples of successful tribal
projects, and access a variety of tribal service-learning resources. |
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| | | The Use of Technology in Higher Education Service-Learning |
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their ready access to new technologies, higher educational institutions
are well-positioned to take advantage of rapid changes in the field.
This document is intended to provide information on the use of
technology in service-learning programs at the local level. |
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| | | Why Districts, Schools, and Classrooms Should Practice Service-Learning |
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Many educators consider service-learning a "value-added" approach
because it helps participants from schools and communities and has
multiple benefits for each. This fact sheet highlights some key reasons
why districts, schools and classrooms should practice service-learning.
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| | | Working Effectively with Tribal Councils |
| | | This fact sheet was developed by a council member, detailing protocol
and procedures for building a good relationship with your Tribal Council.
Although each tribe is different, there are some general strategies that
all tribal programs can use. |
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Youth Development and K-12 Service-Learning |
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This brief looks at the role of school-based service-learning in positive youth development. |
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| | | Youth Voice in Service-Learning |
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Learn more about encouraging and increasing the input of young people
in developing and implementing policies, plans and projects to guide
service-learning efforts. |
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