Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

• For AmeriCorps Members working in educational settings…
• For AmeriCorps Members looking to enhance their experience of learning through service…
• For anyone interested in finding a way to increase civic engagement, academic, personal, and social outcomes of youth and students…

Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) provides free and accessible tools and resources to help you provide a quality service-learning experience. We help you connect to the broader service-learning community and our staff and advisors are always ready to lend a helping hand. Here are just a few of the ways we make it easier for you to make a difference:

• The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse houses the nation’s largest library of service-learning resources and materials. Search the entire library catalog to find print resources, videos, and DVDs that can be circulated to AmeriCorps members, or search our e-library for electronic resources to get you started right away!
  www.servicelearning.org/library/
  
  Keep up to date with our RSS feeds of new library items and new Learn and Serve America grantee-produced materials.
  www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/up_to_date/


• We provide a comprehensive website (www.servicelearning.org) with an easy site-wide search to find tools, resources and more on any service-learning topic you’re interested in.
  
  In order to provide you with the most relevant resources in an easily digestible form, NSLC has created fact sheets, bibliographies, and hot topics on dozens of service-learning and related topics. Find these great resources and more at
  www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/


• We offer resources specific to AmeriCorps members:
  AmeriCorps and Service-Learning
  AmeriCorps members are working in schools, universities, and community-based organizations across the country implementing, facilitating, and coordinating service-learning. This page highlights examples of how AmeriCorps and service-learning interconnect and resources to help support AmeriCorps members involved with service-learning.
  www.servicelearning.org/americorps


• AmeriCorps Service-Learning Training Modules & Toolkit
  The toolkit includes: six training modules covering a variety of service-learning topics; support materials for each module, including activities, overhead transparencies, and handouts; the Virtual College Course, “An Introduction to Service-Learning”; a variety of service-learning supplemental and library materials including videos, CDs, and current publications on service-learning; and the ACOE Understanding School Culture video, created to educate AmeriCorps members about school culture and prepare them to work in schools.
  www.servicelearning.org/library/resource/6758


• We give you access to service-learning lesson plans & project ideas from our Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular
  Examples (SLICE) database. This resource provides hundreds of ready-to-download service-learning lesson plans, syllabi, and project ideas that you can easily replicate in your communities. These project ideas in the areas of literacy, mentoring, the environment, community development, and more can serve as excellent resources for those AmeriCorps members working in education settings.
  www.servicelearning.org/slice


• The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse features a variety of free or low-cost resources and promotional materials for building your own service-learning library or for sharing with colleagues or workshop attendees. Among these are the everpopular Bring Learning to Life promotional video, brochure, posters and companion guides – available for free – to help you spread the word about the benefits of service-learning and grow the service-learning movement.
  www.servicelearning.org/pubs
  
  And you can use our tip-sheets for easy, fun ways to use Bring Learning to Life in
  your next event.
  www.servicelearning.org/lsa/bring_learning/index.php#blltips


• The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has been working with Learn and Serve America in efforts to support the use of Web 2.0 and social media in service and service-learning. Take a look at some of our resources to get you started in using social media or to further support your current initiatives:
  
  Marketing 101: Using Social Media / Web 2.0 to Highlight Your Program
  www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/marketing_101/index.php
  
  We also have new tools and resources coming in all the time from the Social Media and Web 2.0 Learn and Serve America grantees so keep your eyes peeled for more of these resources!


• Our staff is ready to lend a helping hand with individual reference and research help. There’s no automated machine you’ll speak with at NSLC. Call us anytime, M-F, 8-4:30 PST and speak to a real person who can help you with all your service-learning needs. Call us toll-free at 1-888-245-7378 or email info@servicelearning.org,or reach the Resource Center at 1-800-860-2684 or email resourcecenter@etr.org.