NYLC publications provide teachers and other service-learning practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers with information to implement successful programs, enrich education, support young people, improve public policy, and build strong communities.
Publications can be ordered online for shipment in the U.S. and Canada. For international orders, please download an order form.
Webinars
Activating Youth to Tackle Big Issues
June 5, 2012, 12:00 p.m. CT
Learn about mobilizing campaigns, service-learning grants, and resources that YSA (Youth Service America) has to help engage youth, teachers, and community organizers in service.
Partnerships, Peace-Building, and Youth Engagement
June 13, 2012, 12:00 p.m. CT
Learn about youthrive's programming and how it inspires and engages youth and adults through education, leadership, and service to integrate peace-making activities into their lives, their communities, and the world.
Learn, Serve, Succeed: Tools and Techniques for Youth Service-Learning
June 29, 2012, 12:00 p.m. CT
Learn about Director of Project Service Leadership Kate McPherson's Learn, Serve, Succeed: Tools and Techniques for Youth Service-Learning guide.
Service-Learning in the PreK-3 Classroom
August 15, 2012, 12:00 p.m. CT
Join NYLC and Early Childhood Education university professors Vicki Lake and Ithel Jones on August 15, 2012 for this webinar to learn about service-learning in the PreK-3 classroom.
Tough Minds and Tender Hearts: Building Martin Luther King’s “Beloved Community” Through Service-Learning
This handy reflection journal distills highlights of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life into eight chapters, with an emphasis on how aspects of his life’s work and writings relate to service-learning.
Service-Learning and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Mobilizing Youth Action
Everything you need to implement Y-RISE — NYLC's model for using peer education and service-learning in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice
A great supplement to Growing to Greatness 2008, this 20-page, paperback booklet contains the complete set of eight standards and their supporting "indicators" that are derived from previous iterations, including the "Essential Elements" and "Principles of Effective Practice." (5 for $10)
Growing Hope: A Sourcebook on Integrating Youth Service into the School Curriculum
The first service-learning guidebook. Essential reading for all service-learning practitioners.
Teaching Young Children through Service and Getting Started in Service-Learning
This package provides you with the right foundation to implement service-learning for 4- to 8-year-olds.
Getting Started in Service-Learning (Revised and updated!)
The basics of service-learning, from assessing community needs to using reflection strategies.
Service-Learning and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Mobilizing Youth Action Package
Everything you need to implement Y-RISE — NYLC's model for using peer education and service-learning in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Your Story, My Story
Tells the story of how HIV/AIDS has affected youth in Southern Africa and offers ideas and suggestions on how youth can get involved to fight the disease.
Academic Success through Service: Field-Tested Service-Learning Strategies for Grades 3-5
A service-learning sourcebook with more than 20 projects, team-building exercises, and reproducible handouts.
Teaching Young Children through Service: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Practicing Service-Learning with Children Ages 4 Through 8
This easy-to-use book makes the case for developmentally appropriate service-learning across the younger grades.
Wisdom Teachings: Lessons Learned from Gatherings of Elders
A guide for bringing elders and youth together.
Youth F.E.L.L.O.W.S. Project Curriculum Sourcebook
Details 13 successful service-learning programs emphasizing civic education, technology, and youth-adult partnerships.
Making the Case for Service-Learning: Action Research and Evaluation Guidebook for Teachers
Using "action research" to make the case for service-learning.
Service Without Guns
Examines National Young Service programs in 31 countries and gives the most thorough examination yet made of the potential of National Youth Service to enable young men and women to make a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Growing to Greatness
Growing to Greatness Seven-Volume Set (2004-10)
The complete set of seven reports from NYLC's comprehensive study of the state of service-learning, now more than 75% off!
Growing to Greatness 2010
The 2010 report from NYLC's comprehensive study of the state of service-learning.
Growing to Greatness 2009
The 2009 report from NYLC's comprehensive study of the state of service-learning.
Videos
Making the Connection: Service-Learning at the District Level
Highlighting the team-building and problem-solving benefits of service-learning.
Making the Case for Service-Learning
Teachers, administrators, and students provide testimony on service-learning's efficacy.
