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As the conference creeps closer everyone apart of NYLC is on hyper drive. The conference is a lot of work and there is a lot of preparation to be done. more »

Service learning has been a passion of mine even before I was aware of the term service learning. As a high school student I attended a summer program, the Global Youth Village, which focused on youth leadership, dialogue, conflict resolution, and cross-cultural understanding. As part of this program, youth participated in action teams, which were 2-3 week long service projects meant to be youth-created and youth-led. As a student, I was inspired by the process. more »

The AmeriCorps LEAP Initiative focuses on social and emotional development of young children in a 20-county region across southeastern Minnesota. LEAP members enter preschool classrooms with skills and strategies to help kids with self-regulation, building a foundation to prepare them for kindergarten and all that follows. I am a proud LEAP Initiative alumnus. The other week, I had the opportunity to reconnect with my former program for a discussion on service-learning in a preschool setting.

Before traveling to southern Minnesota to present, I had to answer one question: more »

It is 3:15 on a Tuesday afternoon and outside L. C. Webster Elementary School in North St. Paul there is a bustling of students clambering into cars, buses, and otherwise milling around waiting for their rides to come. Spread throughout four classrooms and a gymnasium inside the school, however, many students are turning their attention to the next hour. These five rooms and varied groups of students are composed of Webster students , their teachers, and high school students from ISD 622, North St. Paul, Oakdale, and Maplewood. more »

H2O for Life has been a participant in the Annual Service Learning Conference for the past 5 years. more »

Having attended NYLC’s 23rd annual National Service-Learning Conference in early 2012, my colleagues at the National Center for Learning and Citizenship (NCLC) and I were excited to hear that the next installment of this incredible event would arrive on our front porch here in Denver in 2013. more »

Each year the Service-Learning Young Professionals event gains steam at the National Service-Learning Conference. The National Service-Learning Partnership created the Service-Learning Young Professionals as a grassroots gathering. Often held in a hotel suite year after year, the event is growing in size and numbers as new professionals enter the service-learning field. This year the event will be better than ever and promises many opportunities to network with others from around the country. more »

In celebration of Technology Month as we inch closer to Digital Learning Day next week, we developed a list of tech resources to use in your service-learning. Wherever you land on the spectrum from novice to techie, this is a valuable collection that will make easy work of your service-learning tech needs.

Here is a small sampling of the great tools we've found: more »

If you still have not yet registered to attend this year’s National Service-Learning Conference, Without Limits, here are ten great reasons why you should join NYLC and conference co-host Earth Force in Denver, CO: more »

Without Limits is the theme of this year’s National Service-Learning Conference in Denver and the On-Site Projects Committee has been working literally since the end of the conference in Minneapolis last April. I love the National Service-Learning Conference! There is an energy here that I do not find at other conferences, so it is my #1 pick every year! No matter the location—from Providence to San Jose to Atlanta to Minneapolis—the projects and presentations are Without Limits and so will your ideas be for projects you can complete in your setting. more »