| Tool kits provide information and strategies for practitioners, teachers, student leaders, administrators, and community activists interested in creating or enhancing service-learning programs. They may include project planning information, blank forms, curriculum guides, volunteer recruitment suggestions, ideas for generating media attention, and fund-raising plans. Click on the links below to locate online tool kits. (Clicking on these links will open a new browser window. To return to this page simply close the new window.) | ||
| Starter Kits | ||
 | Community-Based Service-Learning Starter Kit | |
| Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is pleased to present a resource for community-based service-learning practitioners. The "Community-Based Service-Learning Starter Kit", on CD-ROM, was developed in partnership with Learn and Serve America and the Points of Light Foundation. | ||
| Faculty Toolkit for Service-Learning in Higher Education (Higher Education Starter Kit)  | |
| The materials in the toolkit (4550K pdf) are divided into 10 units designed to aid faculty in every step of planning, designing, and implementing service-learning programs into their curriculum and institutions as well as program evaluation and assessment. Each unit includes tips and in-depth content information about the topic presented and most units include case studies providing ‘real life’ experiences for readers to learn from. | ||
| Students in Service to America (K-12 Starter Kit) | |
| Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has gathered the practical tools presented on this page to help you get started with service-learning in K-12 schools. You can download the SISTA Guidebook online. | ||
| Other Toolkits | ||
| AmeriCorps Service-Learning Training Modules & Toolkit | |
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The toolkit includes: six training modules covering a variety of service-learning topics; support materials for each module, including activities, overhead transparencies, and handouts; the Virtual College Course, “An Introduction to Service-Learning,” a comprehensive set of 8 video tapes with a connecting website where participants can enroll for college credit with California State University, Hayward; a variety of service-learning supplemental and library materials including videos, CDs, and current publications on service-learning; and the ACOE Understanding School Culture video, created to educate AmeriCorps members about school culture and prepare them to work in schools. "As a service-learning staff person for a diverse urban school district, I have used the Modules and Toolkit to work with teachers as they implement service-learning for the first year in our district. I have found that they are very user-friendly and that teachers come out of the trainings with the information and guidelines they need to start working with their students." -- Connie Pekedis, West Contra Costa Unified School District, Richmond, California. | ||
| Campus Compact: Service-Learning and Faculty Development Toolkits and Institutes | |
| Resources and events for faculty and others at various levels of institutionalizing the practice of service-learning on their campuses. Three levels of tool kits are offered--introductory, intermediate, and advanced. | ||
| Community Based Organization (CBO) Toolkit | |
| Created by the Missouri State Service-Learning Advisory Council, this toolkit contains information on defining service-learning, principles of good practice, partner benefits, elements of a successful partnership, a readiness checklist, after-school service issues to consider, and much, much more. | ||
| Educator's Guide to Service-Learning Program Evaluation | |
| This booklet provides tools to evaluate how effectively a program meets its objectives, ways to diagnose which factors contribute to successful or unsuccessful outcomes, and guidance for improvement. The results from these evaluations can help you decide which programs to continue, how to strengthen them, and which ones to end. | ||
| K-12 Service-Learning Project Planning Toolkit | |
| The materials in this toolkit contain information about the three core components of a service-learning project: planning and preparation, the service activity, and the culminating event. Also included is information about two ongoing activities common to high quality service-learning projects: reflection and assessment. You can also download electronically fillable Word Documents of the worksheets (275K Doc) in this toolkit. | ||
| Learning in Deed's Service-Learning Policy Toolkit | |
| Created for service-learning advocates interested in helping inform policymakers. Provides information and strategies for service-learning practitioners, and assists them in understanding how policymaking at the district, state, and federal levels can help to expand the overall scope and quality of the service-learning field. | ||
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Toolkit | |
| Intended to give you ideas for projects, help you plan and run a successful event, connect with partners, promote your project to the media and the public, and manage volunteers effectively. | ||
| National Youth Service Day Planning Toolkit | |
| This comprehensive guide will help you plan your project, recruit volunteers, generate media attention, raise funds, and more. Also includes project ideas and sample forms. | ||
| | Partnerships For After-School Success Tool Kits | |
| Created by t he National Collaboration for Youth, these toolkits provide research supporting the need for school-CBO partnerships, successful strategies for creating and sustaining partnerships, and checklists and tools. Similar information is in both packets, but one is specifically written for community-based organizations and the other is for local education agencies and state education agencies. | ||
| Service-Learning and Communication: A Disciplinary Toolkit | |
| A discipline-specific toolkit for higher education faculty interested in service-learning and Communication Studies. Discusses the benefits of service-learning, includes a section on liability concerns, a glossary, and tips for getting started. Also gives examples of actual projects that various communication studies college classes have done, and includes sections on reflection, assessment, and blank assessment forms. | ||
| Service-Learning Toolbox: Work Pages & Checklists to Help You Get Started & Keep You Going | |
| From the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, this is a hands-on booklet intended to help in designing service-learning projects. Helps readers clarify goals and keep track of project details ranging from budgets to transportation. The work pages are divided into four key areas: preparation, action, formal evaluation, and online resources. | ||
