Service-Learning Web Sites
ABCD
books: A place for literature and service learning connections.
American
Association for Higher Education (AAHE): Learn about the AAHE Service-Learning
project and its 18-volume monograph series.
America's
Legislators Back to School Program: There is a program to help you and
your students invite members of Congress to your schools, where they can
learn about the good things you are doing. The America's Legislators’
Back to School Program kicks off on September 15 and runs throughout the
school year, giving legislators and teachers flexibility in scheduling classroom
visits. We suggest you schedule a visit when service-learning activities
will occur, so your Senator or member of Congress can see you your students
in action.
The
Big Dummy's Guide to Service-Learning:The site is geared toward colleges
and universities. It includes simple answers to frequently asked questions
about service learning from the following perspectives: faculty, program,
student, administrative, and non-profit.
Campus
Compact: Campus Compact is a coalition of college and university
presidents committed to helping students develop the values and skills
of citizenship through participation in public and community service.
It is the only national higher education organization whose primary purpose
is to support campus-based public and community service.
Cesar
E. Chavez Foundation : The Cesar E. Chavez Foundation uses service-learning
curricula and lessons to promote the values of the renowned organizer
and civil rights leader, including peer mediation, migrant worker issues,
non-violence, civic participation, voter registration, homelessness,
and social and economic justice. The Foundation has created a series
of resource guides, available to download at http://www.chavezfoundation.org/spotlight.html
Corporation
for National and Community Service: The Corporation for National
and Community Service (CNS) is a federal agency that works with state
governments and community organizations to provide opportunities for
Americans of all ages to serve through AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve, and
National Senior Service Corps programs.
Education
Commission of the States: provides links to state and national educational
issues.
Edutopia:
The George Lucas Educational Foundation. Edutopia documents and disseminates
models of the most innovative practices in our nation's K-12 schools. Its
goal is to spread the word about interactive learning environments and enable
others to adapt them. It has a vast archive of success stories from schools,
and offers everything from classroom tips to recommendations for district-wide
reform. Project-based and service learning resources are provided, as well
as examples of students who have excelled from this type of learning.
History
of Service Learning: A brief history of service-learning from LSA in
higher education from its roots in civic engagement movements to the present
date. A timeline
and an annotated
history are also available. The history is available as a PDF (450 MB).
Click here
for the file.
Learn
and Serve America: is one of the "streams of service" administered
by the Corporation for National Service. Learn and Serve America offers
grants for service-learning programs in institutions of higher education,
K-12 schools,and community based organizations.
Learning
In Deed: This initiative, launched in 1998 by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation,
aims to make service-learning part of every k-12 student's experience.
Learning
To Give: This site offers free of charge more than 1,200 K-12 lessons
and educational resources to teachers, parents, youth workers and community
leaders. Students learn about volunteering, being responsible and showing
leadership in the classroom-and how to be leaders in the community.
Linking
Education and America Reads through National Service (LEARNS): is
a partnership of the following organizations: Northwest Regional Educational
Laboratory (NWREL), Southern Regional Council (SRC), Bank Street College
of Education (BSC).
National
Service-Learning Clearinghouse: A comprehensive information system
that focuses on all dimensions of service-learning, covering kindergarten
through higher education school-based as well as community based initiatives.
The Center of the Clearinghouse is located at the University of Minnesota,
Department of Work, Community and Family Education, with collaboration
from a consortium of twelve other institutions and organizations.
National
Service-Learning Partnership: The Partnership‘s purpose is
unique: it is to orchestrate a comprehensive and broad-based approach
to making service-learning a standard part of students’ education
across the United States. As a network of grassroots and national service-learning
supporters, the Partnership brings together organizational and individual
members, including thousands of practitioners, administrators, community
activists, policymakers, researchers, parents, young people and leaders
in business and other sectors.
The
National Service Resource Center (NSRC): is a training and technical
assistance provider to programs funded by the Corporation for National
Service. NSRC is your one-stop shopping destination for information specific
to community service programs.
National
Society for Experiential Education (NSEE): NSEE is a membership association
and national resource center that promotes experience-based approaches
to teaching and learning.
The
National Youth Leadership Council's: mission is to engage young people
in their communities and schools through innovation in learning, service,
leadership and public policy. As one of America's most prominent advocates
of service-learning and youth service, the NYLC is at the forefront of
efforts to reform education and guide youth-oriented public policy.
Nonprofit
Risk Management Center: NRMC help nonprofit staff and volunteers control
risks. Web site includes information on conferences, publications, training,
and consulting.
Northwest
Service Learning Exchange: A website created to share service learning
projects developed and implemented by teachers. The site includes teacher
artifacts, timelines, planning documents, student work samples, assessments,
and reflections.
The
Points of Light Foundation: The POLF wants to engage more people
in active volunteer service. Site includes information on how to get
involved, awards programs, and training.
Service
Learning: Education Beyond the Classroom: This booklet, provided by
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, describes how students across
the country are gaining hands-on awareness of waste reduction, recycling
and composting through solid waste service-learning projects.
ServiceVote:
This site is Youth Service America's campaign to engage young people in
the political process, beginning with voting. At this interactive site kids
can log on to the "My Two Cents for Change" feature and share
ideas about how to engage candidates during the election-and afterward.
UCLA
Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project: This web site contains information
and resources focusing on faculty Issues, K-H partnerships, assessment and
evaluation, training and technical assistance, and service-learning research.
The site also contains links to other valuable service-learning and higher
education resources.
Voices
for Service: This web site is part of the AmeriCorps program, which
offers thousands of opportunities to serve through a network of partnerships
with local and national nonprofit groups that are fighting illiteracy, building
affordable housing, cleaning parks and streams, and more.
Volunteering
in America: This web site contains information on national volunteerism
data, trends and demographics. Through this web site, you will be able to
access volunteering statistics, tools, resources, and information for the
nation, U.S. regions, states, and major cities. You will also be able to
see how states and cities rank on different factors related to volunteering.
What
Kids Can Do: This web site features inspiring stories from around the
world about community service projects, including "Straight Talk,"
first-person accounts by young volunteers about their experiences. Its "Kids
on the Wire" service, which features news clippings on teen volunteer
programs, is updated daily.
Youth
Service America: A resource center and alliance of 200+ organizations
committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunities for young
Americans to serve locally, nationally and globally.
FL&S School and Project Websites
Timber
Creek High School Service Learning Academy: The Timber Creek High School
Service Learning Academy in Orlando, Florida has 13 teachers and 430 students
all working to integrate service into their academic curriculum.by creating
and implementing subject-related service learning projects in the school
and community.
The
Young Men's Academy for Academic and Civic Development: The Young Men's
Academy for Academic and Civic Development in Miami, Florida - during the
2006-2007 school year, Miami Douglas MacArthur Senior High South, with assistance
from the Department of Secondary School Reform, envisions establishing a
school-based Service Learning Academy.
Canine Commandos:
Canine Commandos is a program for gifted students from Tropical Elementary
along with ten other schools participate. In Canine Commandos, the gifted
students go to the South Animal Care Center and Central Brevard Humane Society
to train homeless dogs. The Commandos hope to improve these dogs' behaviors
in order to help them become more adoptable.
