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K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice These standards and indicators were vetted through a series of “reactor panels” convened nationwide by the National Youth Leadership Council and RMC Research Corporation. The panels were composed of young people, teachers, school and district administrators, community members, staff from community-based organizations, policy-makers, and others interested in service-learning. Each panel considered the work of the two before them, revising the standards and indicators to ensure that they included the strongest aspects of quality, and to make the wording clearer, measurable, and actionable.[author] |
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What is Service-Learning? A Guide for Parents Parental involvement is one of the most important factors in student success. A companion piece to Learn and Serve America’s popular service-learning public service announcement, Bring Learning to Life, this 6-page guide provides information on the definition and benefits of service-learning as well as practical steps that parents can take to ensure service-learning is a part of their child’s education. |
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Recent Dissertations on Service and Service-Learning Topics: 2004 to 2006 (2007) This is the fourth volume of Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse's collection of recent service-learning thesis and dissertation abstracts. This document includes citation information of 144 dissertations and theses from the years 2004-2006. |
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Washington Youth Voice Handbook: The What, Who, Why, Where, When, and How Youth Voice Happens (2007) A comprehensive guide that explores Youth Voice, youth empowerment, youth involvement, and youth action, this publication can help those who are new to Youth Voice learn about it, and encourage those who are more experienced to learn more. |
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Faculty Toolkit for Service-Learning in Higher Education (2007) The materials in the toolkit (4550K pdf) are divided into 10 units designed to aid faculty in every step of planning, designing, and implementing service-learning programs into their curriculum and institutions as well as program evaluation and assessment. Each unit includes tips and in-depth content information about the topic presented and most units include case studies providing "real life" experiences for readers to learn from. |
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 | K-12 Service-Learning Project Planning Toolkit The materials in this toolkit (4870K pdf) contain information about the three core components of a service-learning project: planning and preparation, the service activity, and the culminating event. Also included is information about two ongoing activities common to high quality service-learning projects: reflection and assessment. You can also download electronically fillable Word Documents of the worksheets (275K Doc) in this toolkit. | |
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 | AmeriCorps Service-Learning Training Modules & Toolkit Only a few available. Order yours today! This toolkit includes:
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 | Engaging
Departments: Moving Faculty Culture From Private to Public, Individual
to Collective Focus for the Common Good This new book examines engagement at the departmental level in institutions of higher education. Authors from eleven college and university departments representing a wide range of disciplines write about the steps leading from individual faculty involvement to collective departmental engagement. Chapters cover large-scale change, long-term commitment, and mission alignment for institution-wide civic engagement. | |
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 | Service Learning in Grades K-8: Experiential Learning That Builds Character and Motivation This book examines the beneficial effects of service learning, explores different types of service learning projects, and explains how to start a successful program. The author offers a research base, practical and logistical information, and descriptions of varied programs in order to help teachers adapt this strategy to their own students' needs and interests. | |
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Service-Learning Practice: Research on Models to Enhance Impacts This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research and practice. The chapters were selected through a refereed, blind-review process from papers presented at the 4th Annual International K-H Service-Learning Research Conference held October 2004 in Greenville, South Carolina. The chapters focus on topics that address a variety of issues in higher education and teacher education and are organized into four sections. | |
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YMCA Service-Learning Guide: A Tool for Enriching the Member, the Participant,
the YMCA, and the Community This guide outlines three main components of the service-learning process: establishing learning objectives that are both broad and specific, performing meaningful service, and reflecting upon the experience so participants have a "snapshot" of what they have done. It provides real life examples and ideas (mostly from YMCAs) that make the concepts of the three components easy to understand. Additionally, the guide includes assessment tools to explore project quality and sustainability, and other tips and resources related to service-learning. | |
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 | Kids As Planners: A Guide To Strengthening Students, Schools, And Communities Through Service-Learning (Second Edition) 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. | |
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 | Service-Learning in Higher Education critically examines the assumptions and implications of service-learning and offers exemplary models of practice and scholarship. It explores the limits and possibilities of teaching for social justice; it examines paramount issues of institutionalization; and it investigates issues of student resistance, student voice, and contested issues around race, class, and gender. Transformational models across the humanities and social sciences are presented and new directions for the future of service-learning are explored. By bringing together rising scholars and established experts in the field, this book offers an essential and state-of-the-art examination of the service-learning field in higher education. | |
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 | Growing
to Greatness: 2005 State of Service-Learning Report This second year report features a host of articles by service-learning experts, along with profiles of community-based organizations and service-learning activity in 21 states. Highlights include: Howard Gardner on the ways young professionals become committed to quality work and ethical standards; Rob Shumer on the seminal service-learning studies that have advanced the field; the Search Institute on links between service-learning and academic achievement in high-poverty schools; Lori Vogelgesang on the most recent findings of the Freshman Survey, one of the few longitudinal studies that measure the longer-term impact of service-learning; and a special 15th-anniversary look at Learn and Serve America. | |
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Work and the Academy This book provides academic leaders with a resource to increase their fluency with and ability to lead service-learning and civic engagement efforts on their campuses, with their peers, and throughout higher education. It is written for academic leaders-chief academic officers, provosts, deans, and division and department chairs-who have significant responsibility for their campus's academic programs. Offering a variety of topics and case studies, as well as a resources section of publications, web sites, consultants, and networks, this book allows readers to focus on the specific issues and types of institutions most applicable to them. | |
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 | Dialogue
for Democracy This documentary explores the basis and potential for connections between communities and education in Washington state today, and is a testament to the power of partnerships, and the impact of service-learning and civic engagement. Dialogue for Democracy has wide applications in educational settings ranging from classrooms and administrative meetings to community events and civic gatherings. | |
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 | New Perspectives in Service-Learning: Research to Advance the Field edited by Marshall Welch and Shelley Billig (2004). The fourth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series presents new research in several areas of service-learning including the foundations, impact, institutionalization, and future of service-learning. | |
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 | Liberty: Thriving and Civic Engagement Among America's Youth by Richard M. Lerner (2004) explores several key characteristics of positive youth development, the meaning of a thriving civil society, and programs and policies that provide opportunities for youth participation and leadership. | |
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 | SLOOPY: Service-Learning Opportunity-Options Program for Youth, a CD-ROM produced by YCS (Youth Community Service), provides tools to help add service-learning to existing after-school programs. | |
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 | Serve and Learn: Implementing and Evaluating Service-Learning in Middle and High Schools, by Florence Fay Pritchard and George I. Whitehead, III (2004), provides a framework grounded in theory and best professional practice, which middle and high school teachers, their students, and community partners can use to design, implement, and evaluate service-learning projects that address authentic community needs. | |
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 | Education for What: Learning Social Responsibility by Bob Gilner (2004). Shot on location on six urban campuses across the country, this 60 minute film looks at how a broad range of discipline and interdisciplinary programs help engage students in service and service-learning. This is a faculty development tool for campuses seeking to create or expand community-based teaching and learning programs | |
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 | The Good Citizen: A History of American Life, by Michael Schudson. This book presents the history, meaning, and expression of citizenship in America, and shows that the meaning of voting -- and what counts as politics -- has changed dramatically over the course of U.S. history. | |
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 | The Complete Guide to Service Learning. This book presents service learning—its importance, elements, steps, and challenges—within a curricular context. It features chapters on a variety of topics complete with inspiring quotations, background information, activities, real-life examples, and ideas that have worked for other teachers. | |
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 | The Measure of Service Learning: Research Scales to Assess Student Experiences, by Robert G. Bringle, PhD, Mindy A. Phillips and Michael Hudson (2004).This book is a resource for program evaluators and researchers who want to inform the practice of service learning. It provides an extensive compilation of scales for use in studying students in service learning classes. The scales measure a variety of constructs, such as attitudes, moral development, and critical thinking. In addition, the text includes a primer on measurement theory. | |
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 | A Culture of Giving: Service-Learning in Native American Communities, by W.K. Kellog Foundation and National Commission on Service-Learning (2003). This video, hosted by Buffy Sainte-Marie, features stories about innovative service-learning projects in New Mexico and Northern Michigan. It includes comments from students, teachers, and administrators on their experience with service learning. | |
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 | Building Community: A Tool Kit for Youth and Adults in Charting Assets and Creating Change, by Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development (2001).The Building Community Toolkit is one of the outcomes of a joint project of the Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development and the National 4-H Council with partners in diverse US communities to find, test, adapt, and document tools and approaches for creating positive community change and building partnerships between young people and adults. The Building Community Tool Kit is a resource for youth and adult leaders, service-learning program coordinators, and anyone who is focused on generating and sustaining positive community development. | |
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 | Building Partnerships for Service-Learning, edited by Barbara Jacoby (2003). Service-Learning has the potential to bring about positive social change by leading colleges and universities to transform themselves into fully engaged citizens of their communities and the world. This book assembles leading voices in the field to bring their expertise to bear on this topic. | |
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 | Challenge of Governance (The): Teacher's Edition, by Marshall Croddy, Charles Degelman, and Bill Hayes/Constitutional Rights Foundation (2001). This guide is designed to help students in grades 9-12 gain proficiency in meeting the National Standards for Civics and Government. This supplementary text provides 16 lessons with four parts each: a short reading reviewing one to four standards; discussion questions based on the standards; a high-interest reading based on an issue related to the standards; and an interactive activity designed to foster intellectual and participatory skill development. Teacher's guide provides step-by-step directions for conducting each lesson based on the materials provided in the text. | |
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 | Civic Mission of Schools (The), by CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement)and Carnegie Corporation of New York (2003). Written and endorsed by a distinguished and diverse group of more than 50 scholars and practitioners, this report summarizes the evidence in favor of civic education in k-12 schools; analyzes trends in political and civic engagement; identifies promising approaches to civic education; and offers recommendations to educators, policymakers, funders, researchers, and others. | |
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| Learning to Serve, Serving to Learn: A View From Higher Education, by the Teacher Education Consortium in Service-Learning (2003). This online monograph describes how education department faculty integrated service-learning instruction into teacher preparation programs. | ||
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 | Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, by Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities (Sponsor). Metropolitan Universities is a quarterly journal focusing on up-to-date with cutting-edge higher education issues. Each issue reports in-depth on both the theoretical and applied aspects of a current theme affecting colleges and universities. Authors come from diverse institutional perspectives, and include top scholars and administrators who share a wealth of experience and knowledge about best practices and effective strategies. Volume 14, Issue 3 focuses on "Lessons from Service-Learning". | |
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 | Putting the Invisible Hand to Work: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Economics, Edited by KimMarie McGoldrick and Andrea L. Ziegert (2002). Service learning enables students to integrate their study of economics in the classroom with service activities in their communities. It can enhance both economic literacy and the quality of our communities by helping to make economics more accessible to an increasingly diverse student body, increasing citizenship skills, and improving the relationship between colleges and universities and their communities. This book offers an overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of service learning in economics so that economics instructors may begin to design service-learning programs for their own classrooms. | |
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| Service Learning at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Preliminary Study, sponsored by National Dropout Prevention Center, National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, United Negro College Fund, and Points of Light Foundation (2001). This report presents the results of a survey of service-learning programs at 170 historically black institutions of higher education. | ||
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 | Through Whose Eyes: Service-Learning and Civic Engagement from Culturally Diverse Perspectives, by Elizabeth Larson-Keagy, Exec. Ed., PhD (2002). A resource to help faculty understand the theory and the practice, as well as the rewards and challenges of service-learning, with particular attention paid to our diverse population. Reports from the Global Engagement of Multifaceted Stakeholders (GEMS) project funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Demonstrates how America's community colleges must nurture the civic roots of our nation's increasingly diverse democracy. | |
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| See More Recommended Library Resources on the NSLC Sector Pages: Higher Education, K-12, Community-Based, and Tribal | |
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