Making the Connection: Service-Learning at the District Level

Rick Nelson, a Youth Development Coordinator in the White Bear Lake Area School in Minnesota, highlights the team-building and problem-solving benefits of service-learning in this video. Through exercises called "The Almost Impossible Knot" and "Circle the Circle," he illustrates his main premise: "We tend to look at how things are always done; when we see new ways of doing things, exploration begins." (22 min. VHS. Handbook included. 1998.)

The "Making the Connection" videos offer self-contained lessons in service-learning from advanced practitioners who were part of a three-year national project examining the successes of service-learning in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Perfect for staff trainings and teacher education courses, each was filmed during a workshop demonstration from a field leader.