1. + For the Love of
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Community
Dr. Candace Thompson
PDS Day of Learning
March 14, 2013
Service Learning as Problem-based Community Engagement

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How do You define Service Learning?
Experienced?
 Describe a service learning project you are doing/have done with
your students.
 What else would you like to know about SVL?
Virgin?
 Share an idea you would like to become a SVL project.
 What do you want to know about service learning to help you get
started?

3. Agenda
1 For the Love of Community 5 Examples of Service
Learning
2 Service Learning Defined 6
Your Turn - Building Bridges
& Learning Out Loud
3 Why it Matters 7
IPARC – Elements of
Service Learning
4
Types of Service Learning 8 Find Out More!

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For Love of Community –
A Fellow Traveler
“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
~ Dr. Cornel West
Why I do it How I do it
 Belief in Civic Engagement  Collaboration
& the Collective
 Framework for SVL – in my
 Links theory to practice –
applied and engaged learning own words
 Model for Teaching &  Start w/course content
Learning beyond classroom
 Open to failure
 Saving My Own Life

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Service Is…

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Service is
a Commitment to
Relationships

7. +
Service is an Opportunity for Wonder
and Reflection

8. +
Service is
a Commitment
to Teaching
…And Learning

9. + Service is grounded
in Course Content
and aligned with
Course Goals…
Service is powered by Dialogue
and Reflection…
Service is engaged citizenship
“what love looks like in
public.”

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Service is
a Commitment
to Community
Service is a Commitment to
Reciprocity of
Stories, Skills, and Resources.
Hope Shared and Discovered

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Service is a
Commitment to
Shared Partnerships
& Shared Missions

12. +
Service is a Commitment to
Authentic Engagement
Interpersonal Academic

13. + Service is
a Commitment…
To Student Ownership To Student Voice

14. +
Service is a Commitment to
Meaningful Evaluation & Rigorous
Research

15. + Service Learning Defined

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Service Learning is…
 An educational method that intentionally connects
meaningful community service to classroom
learning and reflection to enrich the learning
experience, teach civic responsibility, and
strengthen communities.
A project-based endeavor that requires participants
to use classroom knowledge to solve real-life
problems.

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Why It Matters
It’s Free!
SVL also has a positive impact on:
 academic engagement and achievement;
 civic attitudes and behaviors; and
 social and personal skills

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Types of Service Learning
 Virtual:project completed in whole or in part via
the internet
 Technical and Direct Contact
 International
 Short-and Long-term; school-based, community-
based, issue-based

19. + Examples of Service Learning

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Service Learning in Action
 Middle school students in  Girl Scouts in West
Pennsylvania learned about the Virginia investigated the biological
health consequences of poor nutrition
and lack of exercise, and then brought complexity and diversity of wetlands.
their learning to life by conducting Learning of the need to eliminate
health fairs, creating a healthy invasive species, the scouts decided to
cookbook, and opening a fruit and monitor streams and then presented
vegetable stand for the school and
community. their findings to their Town Council.
 High school students in a history  Middle School students with special
class involved in the Frederick needs planned and implemented
Douglass Service Learning Program several service learning project for
investigate human trafficking using troops in Iraq, and several
social networks to share SVL community and school-based
activities and learning. projects.

21. Your Turn…
Building Bridges &
+ Learning Out Loud
What Do You Want to Know and Do?

22. Elements of Service Learning
IPARC
Investigate
Demo/Ce Plan &
lebrate Reflect Prepare
&
Assess
Reflect Action

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Investigation
Investigation: Teachers
and students
investigate the Investigate
community problems
that they might
potentially address.
Investigation typically
involves some sort of
research and mapping Reflect Assess
activity.

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Planning & Preparation
Planning and
Preparation: Teachers,
Plan &
students, and Prepare
community members
plan the learning and
service activities, and
address the
administrative issues
needed for a Reflect Assess
successful project.

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Action
Action (Implementing
the Service Activity):
The “heart” of the Action
project: engaging in the
meaningful service
experience that will
help your students
develop important
knowledge, skills, and Assess Reflect
attitudes, and will
benefit the community.

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Reflection
Reflection: Activities
that help students
understand the
service-learning
experience and to
think about its
meaning and Reflection Assess
connection to them,
their society, and
what they have
learned in school;
and

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Demonstration & Celebration
Demonstration/Celebration:
The final experience
when students, Demo/Cele
brate
community participants
and others publicly share
what they have learned,
celebrate the results of
the service project, and
look ahead to the future. Assess
Reflect

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Service Learning Resources
 Great article on the Relationship between Civic Engagement and SVL:
http://www.servicelearning.org/
 SLICE is an easy to search database with lesson plans, syllabi and
project ideas K12:http://www.servicelearning.org/slice: www.ysa.org
 Examples of Virtual Service Learning:
http://www.serviceleader.org/virtual/examples
 Sharing ideas and tools for youth engagement in service:
http://www.servicelearning.org/youthsite
 Learning to Give Philanthropy education resources that teach giving
and civic engagement:
http://learningtogive.org/resources/preparing_students.asp

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National & Global Volunteer
Resources
National
 The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Global
www.servicelearning.org: The Clearinghouse is a
repository for books, research, tools, program descriptions,  http://amizade.org/
and many other ideas for planning and implementing your
service- learning project  http://us.iearn.org/projects
 The Corporation for National and Community Service
(CNCS) www.nationalservice.org: The primary agency
responsible for federal initiatives to involve Americans of
all ages in service-learning and volunteerism, the
Corporation administers Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and
Learn and Serve America for K-12 schools and institutions
of higher education. Its website includes information for
grant seekers and recipients, as well as a Resource Center
with tools for designing service- learning and community Funding
service programs.
 The National Service-Learning Partnership (NSLP),  www.foundation.org
www.service-learningpartnership.org: A network of
teachers, administrators, students, and policymakers
committed to expanding service-learning nationwide,  www.thefoundationcenter.org
NSLP’s website offers resources on planning, reflection,
assessment, standards, student voice, funding, and other
topics of interest for teachers at varying levels of expertise.
 http://www.americaspromise.org/

30. Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in
democracy.
You vote in elections once a year, but when
you volunteer, you vote every day about the
kind of community you want to live in.
~ Marjorie Moore, 2004

31. + Work Cited:
Information in this document was taken
from Corporation for national and
community service and can be found at:
http://www.nationalservice.gov/