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Combining academic service-learning with student affairs creates an environment that best supports student initiatives and leadership, and provides students with the skills and knowledge to help them...
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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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At Grand Rapids Community College (Michigan), faculty members have developed a unique way to learn the pedagogy of service-learning. Learning circles are a place for faculty to come together and...
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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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Besides recruiting volunteers, service-learning fairs can exist as a forum for educating students about the big picture of civic engagement, social issues and careers in the nonprofit field. Choosing...
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In junior high and elementary schools, after-school service-learning can work effectively as part of a larger overall systems-change initiative. By providing after-school enrichment for students who...
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Research shows that students who participate in high quality service-learning experiences typically become more engaged in learning as shown by increased attendance and motivation to learn. But how...
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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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Each year students and teachers in the Lake-Lehman School District (PA) build capacity for service-learning by taking part in Project GIVE (Gaining Insights with Volunteer Experiences). During...
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A university business professor has created service-learning opportunities related to business and economic literacy that often involve mentoring younger students. His students participate as teams...
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An elementary teacher led her class through an environmental service-learning project on school grounds. By allowing for considerable student input, school-wide buy-in was achieved and many valuable...
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Leadership programs that emphasize civic engagement, public service, and/or service-learning are growing rapidly, as service-learning grows nationwide. This effective practice, compiled from a...
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An underlying goal of community colleges is to serve the community, and service-learning can be an ideal vehicle for this to occur. This effective practice offers ideas for service-learning...
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Using service-learning to develop civic responsibility allows community colleges to fulfill their basic mission of providing a quality educational experience and serve the needs of the community....
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Citizenship education is an important component of service-learning. The position statement presented by the Task Force on Revitalizing Citizenship Education offers a relevant message for educators...
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Citizenship education is an important component of service-learning. The position statement presented by the Task Force on Revitalizing Citizenship Education offers a relevant message for educators...
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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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Developing and implementing a service-learning program at the high school level can be achieved in several ways. This effective practice outlines some techniques for planning and implementing service...
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Service-learning helps students develop academic, workforce, and citizenship skills while helping to solve local problems. This effective practice highlights service-learning at McGehee School in New...
