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A small, coastal Oregon town that has experienced many transitions in employment and lifestyle has come together around community-wide service-learning projects that benefit its citizens. Their...
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A class of 16 at-risk students in Anaheim's Youth and Family Resource Center (YFRC) undertook the design, making, and delivery of pillows and care packages for young patients confined to the Neonatal...
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Alternative, Community, and Correctional Education Schools and Services (ACCESS), a division of the Orange County Department of Education, uses service-learning projects as a way to enhance...
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Although service is its own reward, it's human nature to desire recognition! At Ferris State University, leadership awards are given annually through a collaboration of the Student Leadership and...
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Through a partnership with the Cosumnes River Preserve, students in the Galt Joint Union Elementary School District are helping to restore valley oak riparian forests. The Cosumnes River Project is a...
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Conservation efforts in the state of Texas are increasingly being emphasized. For students enrolled in service-learning courses at Blinn College, serving at deer data collection check stations...
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Sandra Naughton's National Service Fellows report, Youth and Communities Helping Each Other: Community-Based Organizations Using Service-Learning as a Strategy During Out-of-School Time, offers...
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This effective practice details how to stencil storm drains in order to alert citizens that toxins dumped out into the street wind up in the nearest body of water. The material is excerpted from the...
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As a result of a Learn and Serve America grant and the key partnerships that were developed with the Alameda County Office of Education, the East Bay Community Foundation's Arts Partnerships for...
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The service-learning coordinator at Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, Virginia arranged with the host of HearSay, a high-quality daily call-in show that discusses issues of interest to the...
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The attributes that comprise "good character" are the virtues that communities agree are vital to their survival and well being. A complete character education program occurs throughout every facet...
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Character education is one way to help students develop the efficacy they will need to further the democratic ideals of our society by becoming caring and ethical adults. Through service-learning,...
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While studying citizenship, sixth-grade students at Marathon Elementary School in Marathon, Wisconsin, produced a Bill of Responsibilities — addressed to themselves, their parents, and their country...
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In 2002 Whittier Elementary began a partnership with the Federal Courts in Cincinnati, Ohio, whereby they used their school as a site to host a naturalization ceremony in which 60 new citizens took...
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As part of their social studies curriculum, 8th grade students at Elkhorn Middle School in Franklin County, Kentucky, took part in three service-learning projects aimed at developing patriotism —...
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Service-learning links community service with structured reflection to promote academic learning. The PARE model (preparation, action, reflection, and evaluation) is a simple way to plan community-...
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The restoration and preservation of historic St. Paul's Cemetery in Ellicott City, Maryland, enables eighth graders to perform service and enjoy cross-curriculum educational experiences. Students...
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Service-learning enriches students academically, advances teachers professionally and strengthens the community. This effective practice offers examples of model programs in service-learning that...
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This effective practice offers an outline that includes the planning, implementing, and assessment phases of a service-learning project, using materials excerpted from the Northwest Regional...
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Creating an effective service project or service-learning program requires careful planning. This effective practice describes ten steps that teachers, parents, after-school providers and those who...
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The Environmental Protection Agency's publication, Service-Learning: Education Beyond the Classroom, describes seven environmental conservation projects that schools and community groups have...
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The Environmental Protection Agency's publication, Service-Learning: Education Beyond the Classroom, describes five environmental conservation projects that schools and community groups have...
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The Environmental Protection Agency's publication, Service-Learning: Education Beyond the Classroom, describes five environmental conservation projects that schools and community groups have...
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High school students in North Adams, Massachusetts, concluded a year-long study of the elderly in society by hosting a senior-senior prom for local senior citizens. The students built relationships...
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The extraordinary contributions of ordinary citizens often go unnoticed in a community. Finding and honoring these ordinary heroes has become an annual cross-age service-learning project for fifth-...
