Getting Started
Effective service-learning requires knowledgeable, trained practitioners and carefully designed programs. We've collected some useful articles and tools for beginning practitioners. We also recommend a short one- to two-day training for those new to service-learning.
Funding: Service-Learning Tip Sheet
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Parents' Guide: A Service-Learning Tip Sheet
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Reflection: A Service-Learning Tip Sheet
A basic overview of reflection, including an explanation of its importance, and a list of ideas for reflection activities that address a range of learning styles.
The Service-Learning Cycle
Commonly used in training sessions, the service-learning cycle explains the guiding questions What? So what? Now what? and the action steps associated with each one.
Youth Voice: A Service-Learning Tip Sheet
The basics of youth voice, including assessing adult readiness for facilitation of youth voice and leadership, training ideas, finding youth leaders, and respecting youths and their process of leadership. Includes one page of youth-leadership and youth/adult-partnership resources.
One Less Empty Bowl
United States
When their school replaced the students' holiday gift exchange with service projects, 2nd-grade students decided to help the hungry. The project opened the students' eyes and the community's hearts. more »
This is Your Life
United States
To kindergarteners, students in the upper grades of their school can be intimidating and unapproachable. One 5th-grade class decided to bridge the distance by writing and presenting each younger student with a book. more »
