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- Engaging youth as positive contributors through service-learning to demonstrate the relevance of academic coursework and the value of civic engagement to their educational and personal development; and
- Connecting with citizens from diverse communities, backgrounds and perspectives to provide expanded opportunities to serve; and
- Building enduring capacity within communities to become more effective at using service as a solution to address pressing challenges.
This opportunity will provide youth, particularly those from disadvantaged circumstances, with service-learning experiences that will increase student civic, academic and life skills while meeting local community needs. Programs engage middle and high school students in school-based and community-based service-learning projects that are intensive, structured, supervised, and designed to produce identifiable improvements to the community. Service-learning activities encourage collaborative community problem-solving that increases students’ academic and civic engagement while improving the odds that they will succeed in secondary school and graduate from high school. Eligible applicants for this competition include partnerships among: one or more community-based entities, a local educational agency serving a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students, and a community college; all located in a high-need, low-resource geographic area. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.
- Dropout Prevention and Service-Learning
- Building Effective Partnerships in Service-Learning
- Benefits of Community-Based Service-Learning
- Impacts of Service-Learning on Participating K-12 Students
NSLC Library Items
- High Quality Instruction That Transforms: A Guide to Implementing Quality Academic Service-Learning (2010), Teri Dary, Betsy Prueter, Jane Grinde, Richard Grobschmidt and Tony Evers (PDF)
- Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America (2008), Paul Tough
- Adoption, Implementation, and Sustainability of K-12 Service-Learning (2002)
- From Community Service to Service-Learning: The Chicago Public Schools Experience (2006) (HTML)
- The Philadelphia Story: A Guide to Service-Learning System Building (2004) (PDF)
Related Websites
- Innovative and Community-Based Service-Learning Programs (Learn and Serve America)
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