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This Summer, Let's...
Combat summer learning loss and childhood obesity. Read more.
Quality Service-Learning
Enhance academic outcomes in reading, writing, math, and science. Read more.
YouthSITE
Sharing Ideas and Tools for Engagement. For youth, by youth.
Joseph Acaba
Educator, hydrogeologist, NASA astronaut, and FL service-learning practitioner.
K-12 Highlights
2010-2011 Project Ignition grants are now available!
Twenty-five schools will be chosen to receive $2,000 grants to support implementation of their teen driver safety campaigns from January to April, 2011. Ten of the schools will receive additional money to expand their campaigns and to sponsor their participation at the 2011 National Service-Learning Conference. Grant applications are due November 15, 2010.
First Lady, Federal Agencies Launch Summer Initiative to Curb Childhood Obesity and Reading Loss
United We Serve: Let’s Read. Let’s Move will get more Americans volunteering to combat childhood obesity and summer learning loss among youth. Read more.
New Guide to Implementing Standards-Based Service-Learning
Adapted in part from NSLC’s popular K-12 Project Planning Toolkit, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction developed the nationally applicable High Quality Instruction That Transforms: A Guide to Implementing Quality Academic Service-Learning.
Featured Resources
This report from Civic Enterprises presents the findings from a series of focus groups with students, teachers and parents on the nation’s dropout problem.
The new edition of Cathryn Berger Kaye’s classic integrates NYLC's K-12 service-learning standards for quality practice, and features 13 thematic chapters with correlating curriculum webs and a CD-ROM with customizable forms.