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This page of the website explains the Corporation’s strategic initiative: Engaging Students in Communities, and provides a link to the strategic plan in its entirety.
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The Corporation for National and Community Service is committed to supporting a culture of service on college campuses. This web page describes the ways the Corporation supports the civic mission of...
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College campuses are eager to share information about advancing their civic mission and to gain knowledge from each other. Maine Campus Compact wanted to offer other colleges a forum to meet with...
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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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North Dakota State University, sponsor of six regional RSVP programs in the state, has formed an innovative partnership with the North Dakota Cooperative Extension Service agents to train RSVP...
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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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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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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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Many young people are looking for opportunities to improve the communities in which they live. The Roadmap to Civic Engagement, created by the Washington Service Corps in collaboration with Service-...
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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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Taylor Elementary School in San Francisco, CA, operates a school-wide service-learning program using AmeriCorps members as service-learning coordinators. In order to ensure information is passed on...
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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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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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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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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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Research has found that voting is a habit that must be learned early. By implementing a Kids Voting program, students learn about the voting process and civic responsibility, and will more likely...
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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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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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As part of its after-school program for at-risk children, an elementary school in Manatee, Florida, developed a year-long service-learning gardening activity, where children maintain an ongoing...
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Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, has designed its community work-study program as a way to develop and cultivate long-term institutional partnerships with community organizations. This...
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Pulling it Together: A Method for Developing Service-Learning and Community Partnerships Based in Critical Pedagogy is a guide to creating service-learning programs and activities that are developed...
