Publications
Florida Learn & Serve Publications
External Evaluations of Florida Learn & Serve
Other Useful Publications
Florida Learn & Serve Publications
Florida
Learn & Serve Brochure - a quick introduction to Florida Learn &
Serve.
Standards
for Service-Learning in Florida - This user-friendly guide is designed
to help you better understand what service-learning is and how to integrate
it into teaching and learning. The nationally adopted Standards for Service-Learning
are derived from research on effective practice, and Florida examples illustrate
each standard. Additional information is included regarding K-20 service-learning
resources and support in Florida.
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Practical Resources for Linking Service-Learning and the Florida Sunshine
State Standards - illustrates links between service-learning activities
and the Florida Sunshine State Standards, and features discipline and age-specific
lesson plans for use by teachers and others interested in incorporating
service-learning in their classrooms.
My
Art...My World - A Handbook on Integrating Service-Learning into the Art
Classroom - presents information on the foundations of arts based service-learning
as well as a compilation of lesson plans.
A
Guide to Engaging Students in Service-Learning Projects Addressing Hometown
Safety - Lessons from Florida SPaRC - offers guidance for programs and
schools that are interested in infusing hometown saftety into their service-learning
projects. The manual has lesson plans, first-person descriptions of successful
projects, useful information on cultivating partnerships, and many other
resources for getting a hometown-safety service-learning program up and
running.
Methods
of Evaluating Student Performance Through Service Learning - a Florida
Learn & Serve-sponsored publication produced by the P.K. Yonge Developmental
Research School at the University of Florida. This document includes a series
of useful and reproducible tools for teachers to use to measure learning
and impacts of student service-learning projects.
Case
Portraits of Exemplary Service-Learning Programs in Middle and High Schools
in Florida - A “case portrait” is a detailed description
of a program, generated using common case study methods, for a program at
a particular point in time. This publication presents five case portraits
for exemplary service-learning projects in Florida, and identifies and describes
some common characteristics of these projects.
External Evaluations of Florida Learn & Serve
Study
of the Community, Higher Education, and School Partnerships (CHESP)
- Drafted by Brandeis University and
Abt Associates in 2003, this report summarizes the findings of case
studies of six Learn & Serve funded statewide CHESP programs (in Colorado,
Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, and Pennsylvania), describing grantee
and subgrantee partnerships and project activities. The study concludes
that
the CHESP experience has demonstrated that three-way partnerships can be
created; that considerable time, resources, and skills are needed to do
so; and that there is a widespread belief that these kinds of partnerships
are leading to more and better service-learning.
Other Useful Publications
Constitutional
Rights Foundation seeks to instill in our nation's youth a deeper understanding
of citizenship through values expressed in our Constitution and its Bill
of Rights, and educate them to become active and responsible participants
in our society. CRF is dedicated to assuring our country's future by investing
in our youth today. Their Service-Learning NETWORK publication is free of
charge.
Service-Learning
Delivers What Americans Want from Schools (New poll shows a way to improve
public enducation). New
PDF Summary of Public Opinion Poll
Making
Knowledge Productive - Skills and Tools for Evaluating Community Service-Learning
in Massachusetts - provides an introductory set of skills and tools
to help Massachusetts (and beyond) teachers and service-learning coordinators
conduct credible and respectable program evaluations as part of their on-going
service-learning efforts.
New York
Learn and Serve's manual
on service learning.
Roper
Public Opinion Poll: Public Attitudes Towards Education and Service-Learning
(PDF)
Learning
In Deed Issue Paper: Integrating Youth Voice in Service-Learning (PDF)
Youth
Voice: A Guide to Engaging Youth In Leadership (PDF)
Service-Learning
and Standards Toolkit, a new publication from the Compact for Learning and
Citizenship (CLC) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS). The
Toolkit not only features numerous examples of service-learning curriculum
and assessments tied to standards, but draws upon the experiences of service-learning
advocates at the state, district and school level in exploring practical
issues such as policy, professional development and administrative support.
The cost is $25 plus shipping.
http://learningindeed.org/policy/Form.PDF
(order form)
The
National Youth Leadership Council's mission is to build vital, just
communities with young people through service-learning. As one of America's
most prominent advocates of service-learning and national service, NYLC
is at the forefront of efforts to reform education and guide youth-oriented
public policy. Print materials range from themed-newsletters to service-learning
program design models. Videos are also available. Most items charge a nominal
fee.
The Learn
and Serve America National
Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) supports the service-learning
community in higher education, kindergarten through grade twelve, community-based
initiatives and tribal programs, as well as all others interested in strengthening
schools and communities using service-learning techniques and methodologies.
NSLC maintains a large collection of both print and online documents relating
to service learning – click here.
Many NSLC publications are available online while others are available only
as print copies which Learn & Serve grantees may borrow
from NSLC Library Services. Additionally, NSLC offers copies of some
of their documents for distribution and use - some at a fee, while others
are free. Click here
to access the inventory of NSLC publications available for purchase.
(Some of the above files require the free Adobe
Reader.)
