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At NYLC we are celebrating Technology Month as we near Digital Learning Day, a national campaign that celebrates teachers and shines a spotlight on successful instructional practice and effective use of technology in classrooms across the country. NYLC is proud to be partners with the Alliance for Excellent Education in this exciting campaign.

During Technology Month, we’re recognizing the ability of technology to advance service-learning. Here are a few of the things we’re doing: more »

As all the pieces are coming together for the upcoming conference in March, one of the pieces I am most excited about is the Day of Service, to be held on Saturday, March 16 as part of the National Service-Learning Conference. That’s one of my favorite parts of our conference – not only do we talk the talk, we walk the walk. more »

This September the Alliance for Excellent Education released a digital civic learning toolkit as part of its Digital Learning Day campaign. more »

As we began to reflect on this past year of work at NYLC, we created a list of milestones and accomplishments. The photos below represent our favorite moments from 2012.

Project Ignition student representatives from last year’s Top 10 schools gathered in Washington, D.C. to tour the Department of Transportation and meet with U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood. more »

Colorado Campus Compact (CCC) is a membership organization of 21 college and university presidents dedicated to promoting the public good through engaged campus work. CCC is part of a national coalition of more than 1,100 colleges and universities that are passionately committed to preparing students to be active, committed, and informed leaders and citizens. At CCC, we know that when students get involved in community-based projects, they’re not just building houses, or tutoring kids, or cleaning trails, or registering voters. more »

A holiday is a day set aside by law or statute as exempt from regular labor or business activities, usually to celebrate or commemorate something that happened on or near that date. As we each celebrate this holiday season for a variety of reasons, we encourage you all to thank those amazing people in our lives that care for, educate, and nurture our future generations – our teachers, administrators, and educators. more »

It was back in the spring of 2001 that I attended the National Service Learning Conference for the first time in Denver, Colorado. As a staff member for the National School and Community Corps, an Americorps program run by EducationWorks, I was asked to attend the conference as a representative of the organiation and to present information about a program I was facilitating at Girls High of Philadelphia. I was so excited to travel to my first work conference and learn more about service learning. Attending this conference was no doubt a turning point in my career. more »

A few days for professionals from across the country to get together, celebrate, and showcase the best their field has to offer. That could describe the Grammy Awards, the Super Bowl, Fashion Week, or the National Service-Learning Conference. That’s right I said the National Service-Learning Conference! more »

As someone not entirely unfamiliar with issues related to diversity and inclusion, I was excited about this year’s Overcoming Racism Conference and surprised at how much I didn’t already know. This was the fourth annual conference hosted by the Facing Racial Equity Collaborative, and the theme “Decolonizing Minnesota & Beyond: Historical & Current Struggles” drew attention to the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Dakota War of 1862. more »

On Sept. 23-25, I was honored to convene with service-learning researchers from around the country at the International Association for Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement. I thought about the top three things I learned at this year’s conference, and came up with the following: more »