Kids As Planners: A Guide to Strengthening Students, Schools, and Communities Through Service-Learning (Second Edition)

KIDS as Planners is a guidebook that provides teachers, school administrators, students and community partners with a process for designing, implementing and evaluating a service-learning project. It demonstrates how service-learning can effectively meet many educational reform objectives: standards-based learning, character education and school-to-career initiatives. Including reproducible examples, tools and strategies, KIDS As Planners is a resource to help schools advance educational goals while deepening the relationship between students and their communities. Partial contents: Getting Started; Studying Problems and Solutions; Designing and Implementing a Project; Developing the Academic Components; Sustaining Service-Learning; Resources; Reproducible Tools.

There is a newer edition of this guide: Kids As Planners (Third Edition)