Standards for Effective Service-Learning Practice
Service-learning organizations and practitioners have been working together for more than a decade to develop standards of effective practice for Pre-K-12 service-learning. Discover what decades of educational research and the experience of seasoned service-learning practitioners and participants have come to understand about what attributes of service-learning best foster academic, civic, and social gains for students.
Can Service-Learning Help Reduce the Achievement Gap?
Review of recent research and literature about the effectiveness of service-learning methodology. Main findings related to low-income students, service-learning quality, principal support in low-income schools, and closing the achievement gap between low-income and high-income students are illuminated with statistics and descriptive research results. (Growing to Greatness 2005)
The Generator, August 2007
This issue of The Generator inaugurates a new format that helps teachers and other service-learning practitioners make better use of current service-learning research. Articles include an update on translating the Principles of Effective Practice for K-12 Service-Learning into national standards, a research summary on how reflection facilitates high-quality learning for students, and a description of a method young children can use to select service-learning projects. more »
Unpacking What Works in Service-Learning
Summary of research supporting the eight Principles of Effective Practice for K-12 Service-Learning. Each principle is defined and supported with the most current research. Included in this article are examples of how each principle can be incorporated into classroom practice. (Growing to Greatness 2007)
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