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Service Learning Database
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 To access the MPS Service Learning Database, please follow the following instructions: Click Here |
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Service learning is a method of teaching that connects students to meaningful issues in the community and links directly to course objectives and curricular standards.
Service learning has been shown to increase students’ “locus of control” and “self-efficacy”, both of which are important resiliency factors. Service learning has successfully demonstrated to be a research based approach to improving students’ positive character traits by providing an authentic context to develop those traits.
Service learning is also a recognized strategy in dropout prevention and student engagement.
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Training and Consultation
- National Youth Leadership Council - www.nylc.org
This is the premier national service learning organization for training (host the national conference), curriculum and grant opportunities.
- SEWSLC (Southeaster Wisconsin Service Learning Consortium) - www.sewslc.org
This the Milwaukee regional coalition to promote service learning PK-16 and is linked to DPI. It offers trainings 2-3 times per year.
- National Service Learning Exchange. Join their listserve to get questions answered on service learning.
- DPI has a service learning consultant: Teri Dary. therese.dary@dpi.state.wi.us
Curriculum
Grants
- National Service Learning Clearinghouse. www.nslexchange.org This the premier organization for curriculum on service learning and civic engagement.
- City-Youth-The Constitutional Rights Foundation. www.closeup.org . This group provides lessons on many political and social issues.
- Do Something. www.dosomething.org They have many curricular ideas and trainings.
- National Dropout Prevention Center. www.dropoutprevention.org This group announces grants, provides curriculum, etc.., specifically for at risk youth and service learning.
- Project Citizen www.civiced.org This is a Nader established civic engagement group with curriculum.
- National 4-H Council. www.ncpc.org They offer great leadership curriculum and leadership and service.
- State Farm Insurance is the largest private funder of service learning in the nation. They offer various grant opportunities.
- Greater Milwaukee Foundation offers "Youth in Service" grants three times per year for up to $2500.
- The Giraffe Program. (360-221-0757) Offers curriculum that focuses on role models positively impacting their communities.
Supplemental Resources
Assessment and Evaluation
- Compendium of Assessment Research Tools (C.A.R.T.). www.cart.rmcdenver.com
This is run by Shelly Billig, one of the premier researchers on service learning. CART offers research and research tools to assess service learning.
- University of Berkeley Service-Learning Research & Development Center - www.gse.berkely.edu/research/slc
They are a good source of research on service learning.
Program support
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