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Project Ignition Story of the Week: California Students Tap Community Partners to Inspire Safe Driving
Students at Eureka High School in northern California are seeing measureable results from their involvement in Project Ignition, a teen driver safety program funded by State Farm® and coordinated by NYLC.
Join NYLC in National Initiatives Supporting Service-Learning
This week, thousands of young people, educators, community partners, civic leaders, parents, and families will commit to speaking up for service-learning in their local schools and communities through the National Learn and Serve Challenge. NYLC calls on you to step forward and join our service-learning colleagues across the nation.
Get Involved in Teen Driver Safety
It’s National Teen Driver Safety Week, and the National Youth Leadership Council wants to know: What are YOU doing to encourage teen driver safety?
Project Ignition Story of the Week: Rural Arizona Road Tragedies Mobilize High School
As National Teen Driver Safety Week kicks off, the central Arizona community of Payson is recommitting to safe driving — both on and off-road — having lost a student and teacher to driving tragedies last year.
Project Ignition Story of the Week: Impacting How Students Drive and Learn in Washington
Students in the west central Washington town of Yelm are beginning their third year of the teen driver safety program Project Ignition with a focus on preventing distracted driving.
Teachers: Online Courses Offer Graduate Credit for Service-Learning
Beginning Oct. 28, NYLC is offering new online courses designed to help K-12 educators improve the quality of service-learning in their classrooms. Presented in partnership with Viterbo University, these courses offer graduate-level credit for designing high-quality service-learning experiences in the classroom.
Standards-Based Interactive Tool Complete!
Check out the latest additions to NYLC’s interactive tool for teachers, Lift: Raising the Bar for Service-Learning Practice. Designed to support professional development, these modules illustrate high-quality practice through video clips profiling three sites across the country.
Project Ignition Story of the Week: Teens Tackle Safe Driving in Arkansas
Apply now for funding to support student-led teen driver safety promotion projects through Project Ignition. Applications are due Nov. 15, 2010. Visit www.sfprojectignition.com for more information.
Project Ignition Story of the Week: Students in Ohio Change School Culture
Apply now for funding to support student-led teen driver safety promotion projects through Project Ignition. Applications are due Nov. 15, 2010. Visit www.sfprojectignition.com for more information.
Students are not only improving teen driver safety, but are also “positively changing the culture of the school so that it is unrecognizable” in rural Ridgeway, Ohio, says teacher Stephanie Jolliff.
Designing Academically Rigorous Service-Learning Curriculum
NYLC continues its partnership with Viterbo University to offer two online courses that will enhance educators’ ability to do high-quality service-learning in their classrooms while earning graduate credit.
“One of the most common criticisms of service-learning is that it emphasizes service at the expense of learning,” said NYLC’s managing editor Caryn Pernu. “That’s why we have developed a method for infusing academic rigor into service-learning projects.”
