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

This popular guide provides teachers and school administrators with a roadmap for integrating service-learning into their classes and curriculum. By engaging students in real-world problem-solving, service-learning helps expand content knowledge, engage students and teachers, foster good citizenship, and meet the needs of diverse learners. Based on the award-winning KIDS Consortium service-learning framework, the guide provides the background, tools, worksheets, and resources teachers and administrators need to implement high-quality service-learning. It includes a special chapter about getting started; case studies and project examples; information about the benefits of service-learning; ideas for building a collaborative environment in the classroom; ways to engage students in authentic discovery of and research about real community problems/needs; replicable tools and resources for step by step project planning, implementation, and evaluation; how to reflect on and improve service-learning practice, and more.