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Allam, Caroline. "Creating a School and Community Culture to Sustain Service Learning" in Enriching the Curriculum through Service Learning, edited by Carol Kinsley and Kate McPherson. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1995.
Ammon, M. S., et. al.
"Sustaining and Institutionalizing
Service-Learning." Chap. 7 in Service-Learning in California: A Profile of the CalServe
Service-Learning Partnerships (1997-2000). Sacramento:
CalServe, 2003.
This report presents a statewide profile of the goals,
accomplishments, and impacts of 35 K-12 service-learning
partnerships that participated in the California Department of
Education's service-learning initiative (CalServe Initiative)
between 1997 and 2000. The findings detailed in the report
represent partnerships' responses to a set of overarching
questions, which focused on detailing the impacts of
service-learning on students, teachers, schools, districts, and the
community. These responses were analyzed by researchers from UC
Berkeley's Service-Learning Research & Development Center
over the three-year period.
Billig, Shelley H. "Adoption, Implementation, and Sustainability of K-12 Service-Learning." In Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy, edited by Andy Furco and Shelley H. Billig, 245-267. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2002.
Braun, Joan. "Integrating Service-Learning into the School Culture." In Critical Issues in K-12 Service Learning: Case Studies and Reflections, edited by Gita Gulati-Partee and William R. Finger. Alexandria, VA: National Society for Experiential Education, 1996.
Crabb, Fritz. "Sustaining Service-Learning through Political Change." In Gita Gulati-Partee and William R. Finger, Eds. Critical Issues in K-12 Service Learning: Case Studies and Reflections, edited by Gita Gulati-Partee and William R. Finger. Alexandria, VA: National Society for Experiential Education, 1996.
Education Commission of the States. Learning That Lasts: How Service-Learning can Become an Integral Part of Schools, States, and Communities. Denver: Education Commission of the States, 2002. This booklet answers the question, "what would it take to make service-learning part of every student's education experience?" based on ECS's work as part of Learning In Deed: Making a Difference Through Service-Learning.
Kramer, Michael.
Make it Last Forever: The Institutionalization
of Service Learning in America. Washington,
DC: Corporation for National Service, 2000.
Michael Kramer's National Service Fellowship research focused
on identifying strategies that schools, districts, and states have
used to successfully institutionalize service-learning in American
K-12 schools. Kramer surveyed 20 state Learn and Serve
Coordinators and other national service-learning organizations to
select 80 schools and districts that participated in interviews
detailing their progress towards sustaining service-learning as an
instructional strategy. The synthesis of this information was used
to compile a conceptual model and map of the relevant
institutionalization factors. This information was then used to
suggest an assessment and design process for institutionalizing
service-learning at each level.
Melchior, Alan, and Larry Bailis. Institutionalizing Service-Learning: Preliminary Findings from a Study of Learn and Serve America. Presentation at the 2nd annual International Service-Learning Research Conference, Nashville, TN. October, 2002.
RMC Research. Sustaining Service-Learning in K-12 Schools: NSLC Fact Sheet. Scotts Valley, CA: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2002.
