Creating High-Performing Schools Through Service-Learning: A Service-Learning Trail Guide

This "trail guide" is written for educators, community members and youth who are interested in creating healthy schools and communities through service-learning. The first section includes a description of service-learning and a summary of the extensive research on the results of high-quality service-learning programs. This section also summarizes the links between service-learning and high performing schools and explains how service-learning works as a strategy in accountability reform. It provides links to resources and more in-depth analyses of state requirements and the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Section two includes specific descriptions of how the service-learning process can best work at classroom, school, district and community levels. This section contains snapshots of service-learning in action at all of these levels for you to use as landmarks in your own service-learning implementation Section three is made up of an extensive resource listing of guidelines, curriculum and assessment materials, and other materials to help enhance young people's civic knowledge and skills through service-learning activities. This section includes worksheets and other tools that you can use to design and carry out service-learning efforts that are best suited for your local schools and community.