Selecting Quality Workshops for Without Limits

Each year, a diverse group of service-learning professionals converge at the NYLC offices to participate in the on-site workshop proposal review to select workshops for the National Service-Learning Conference. Sorting through quality workshop proposals is no easy task, but is something that our group of 14 reviewers took very seriously to help ensure that the 24th Annual National Service-Learning Conference, Without Limits, has quality programming scheduled. 

Reviewers included NYLC staff, teachers, partners, and youth. The two-day process was co-facilitated by Joan Lennon Liptrot, Executive Director of the Institute for Global Education and Service-Learning, and myself, and involved reviewing 120 proposals to select the best ones for the available workshop slots.

Like I said before, this was no easy task.

But the reviewers involved thought critically about the workshop topics, target audiences, national representation, and the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. The group also worked to identify strong Service-Learning Showcase candidates as well as potential exhibitors. At the conclusion of the event, reviewers thought critically about how to improve the Call for Proposals process next year for the 2014 National Service-Learning Conference, which will take place in Washington, D.C.

On behalf of NYLC, I want to thank you to all of our workshop reviewers! I hope to see you all at the 24th Annual National Service-Learning Conference from March 13-15 in Denver!