Improving Instruction and Student Motivation through Service-Learning

Who should attend: Teams of teachers, administrators, and district leaders
Why: Learn how to document the impact of service-learning on student learning and growth.

Join this extraordinary gathering of teachers, principals, and district leaders dedicated to helping schools achieve academic excellence through service-learning. The Institute is designed to deepen urban educators' understanding of ways to design academically rigorous learning environments and construct assessments of knowledge and thinking proficiencies, skills, and dispositions. Participants will:

• Examine how service-learning can be used to ensure that academic goals are met and supported through community connections.
• Engage in substantive conversations about meaningful academics through an urban lens.
• Participate in service-learning projects that demonstrate the phases of the service-learning cycle, including investigation of the academic environment, assessment, meaningful service, reflection, and plans to go deeper.
• Use service-learning to encourage students’ self-directed learning and academic achievement.

A team of national presenters, led by NYLC Professional Development and Research Team, will facilitate the Institute.

Space is limited.

Hotel Information

There will be a discounted rate for Institute attendees at the Sheraton St. Paul Woodbury Hotel. Rooms are $109 per night, plus tax. Please call the Sheraton directly at 651-209-3280 to make your reservation. Mention ‘NYLC’s Urban Institute’ to receive the special rate.

Sheraton St. Paul Woodbury Hotel
676 Bielenberg Drive
Woodbury, MN 55125

The hotel is located 5 minutes from Crosswinds Arts and Science School. A shuttle will be provided each morning for transportation to Crosswinds and also in the afternoon for return to the Sheraton.