Building Support for Service-Learning

Service-learning is recognized as one way to help reform American schools. Conrad and Martinez address the importance of a shared vision for service-learning by teachers, students, administrators, parents, and community members. Aguilera addresses the importance of effective school leadership to support service-learning. Kraft describes the necessity of collaboration within specific schools in order to insure effective service learning. Kraft also writes how to effectively train teachers in the school setting to integrate service learning and how to build strong partnerships between family, school and community to foster service-learning. Martinez, Conrad, and Billig note how to foster public support for service-learning. Billig addresses how to fund service-learning programs, emphasizing the acquisition of outside funding. Billig also addresses how federal, state, and local policies impact service-learning and how key government policies relate to service learning.

Chapters include: 

• Creating a Shared Vision
• Supporting Service-Learning Through Leadership
• Establishing Professional Cultures to Support Service-Learning
• Implementing Professional Development to Support Service-Learning
• Building Collaborations to Support Service-Learning
• Generating Public Support for Service-Learning
• Funding for Service-Learning Program
• Formulating Policies to Support Service-Learning