All Stories
Donna Cook, Founder of youthrive, to Receive National Honor
Donna Cook, Executive Director and founder of Twin Cities-based youthrive, the upper Midwest affiliated Peace Jam, will receive a national award for her work engaging young leaders in peace programming. Cook will receive the 2012 Stellar Service-Learning Award from the National Youth Leadership Council, a Saint Paul, Minn.-based nonprofit that convenes the National Service-Learning Conference annually.
GSN Updates Enliven the Networking Website
2009 marked the official launch of NYLC’s Generator School Network — an online platform for service-learning practitioners to learn, plan, and connect with each other across the globe and a place where they can share resources and improve their practice. To meet the needs of a growing membership (more than 1,400 members), the GSN has implemented new features to allow members to access professional development topics and navigate the site more easily.
Let’s Talk About Good Teaching
I never thought about the various aspects of being a teacher until I had the opportunity to interview one of my favorite teachers — Scot Hovan. Mr. Hovan is currently a physics teacher at Mahtomedi High School in Minnesota and has been teaching for seventeen years.
Youth Movement Loses Global Leader
The youth service movement lost a founding leader when Donald Eberly, founder of the nonmilitary service movement and the National Service Secretariat, ended a longstanding battle with illness on Dec. 25, 2011. Eberly was born in Cortland, New York, and educated at MIT and Harvard.
Project Ignition Students Share Youth Perspective in Washington D.C.
On Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, student representatives from 10 Project Ignition National Leader Schools spent the day at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in Washington, D.C., to share how they and their classmates are positively impacting teen driver safety in their communities.
Twenty-Five High Schools Receive Project Ignition Grants to Promote Safer, Smarter Driving
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, auto crashes are the number one cause of death for teens in this country. Project Ignition is a youth- and schools-led response that connects academic goals to address the issue of teen driver safety through service-learning. The grants will support student-designed and student-led campaigns aimed at preventing car crashes in their community.
NYLC Research Director Named Vice Chair of International Service-Learning Research Organization
Dr. Susan Root, Research Director at the National Youth Leadership Council, has been named vice chair of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. This past November, IARSLCE held its 11th annual conference, Research for Impact Scholarship Advancing Social Change, gathering hundreds of researchers focusing on service-learning from K-12 to post-secondary education in Chicago, Ill.
NYLC Announces Preconference Sessions
The National Service-Learning Conference® and youthrive PeaceJam Leadership Conference, Our World, Our Future, brings you a full day of engaging preconference sessions on Wed., April 11, 2012. Preconference sessions are intensive, 3-hour interactive gatherings that provide materials, strategies, and skills related to building high-quality service-learning. Each session provides opportunities to explore subject areas in-depth and are presented by service-learning experts.
NYLC Announces 2012 Service-Learning Award Recipients
The National Youth Leadership Council is pleased to present the winners of this year’s National Service-Learning Awards. Awards will be presented during the National Service-Learning Conference® and youthrive PeaceJam Leadership Conference, Our World, Our Future, April 11-14, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minn.
Adopting Service-Learning District-Wide Requires Youth and Adult Buy-In
To successfully implement service-learning district-wide, each school should be equipped with trained teachers, administrators, and community partners. However, at the core of any district-wide initiative should be the reason for its existence — the youth. On Nov. 19, 2011 the National Youth Leadership Council staff trained teams of 130 high school youth and their adult mentors in North Carolina who are a part of the Guilford County Schools Service-Learning Ambassadors. This training focused on service-learning basics and creating action plans to help bring service-learning into schools throughout the rest of the school year.
