National Service Resource Center Effective Practices for Learn and Serve America

Character Education Partnership. National Schools of Character: Practices to Adopt and Adapt. Washington DC: The Character Education Partnership, 2001 and 2002.
Provides how-to information that readers can easily "adopt and adapt" from each of the eight award-winning schools and one district. The book provides a detailed narrative of these winning models of excellence and includes a reproducible useable in-school tool page for each. In addition, the book includes descriptions of promising practices from other schools and districts.

Holland, Barbara. Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship: Overcoming Barriers to Further Expansion Throughout K-16. Speech, Institute on Academic Service-Learning, Ypsilanti, MI, February 8-9, 2002. The author discusses the possibilities for and barriers to the institutionalization of service learning, or moving the discipline from the current exploratory phase to one in which it is more thoroughly adopted and effects the very nature of educational institutions.

Maryland Student Service Alliance. Replication Guides for School Based Service-Learning. Baltimore: Maryland Student Service Alliance, various dates. Including:

• Adopt a Wetland: A Replication Guide for School Based Service-Learning
• Caring through Communication Technology: Replication Guide
• Cemetery Preservation: A Replication Guide for School Based Service-Learning
• Food for the Homeless: Replication Guide
• Kids Sew for Kids: a Replication Guide for School Based Service Learning
• Service Learning through Themes in Literature: a Replication Guide for School Based Service Learning
• Serving Seniors: a Replication Guide for School Based Service Learning
• Serving Those in Need: a Replication Guide for School Based Service Learning
• Storytellers Serving Others: Replication Guide
• Stream Restoration: a Replication Guide for School Based Service Learning

Maryland Student Service Alliance.  . Baltimore: Maryland Student Service Alliance,1995.
Compiled with the assistance of eighty teachers, recommendations are based on what is happening in the classrooms incorporating service-learning. The guide includes seven best practices of quality programs. Each best practice is illustrated with practical approaches and examples to provide the framework for quality service-learning.

National Service Resource Center. Best Practice: Implementing a Service-Learning Project by Satisfying State Standards. Scotts Valley, CA: National Service Resource Center, 2002.
Service-learning enriches students academically, advances teachers professionally and strengthens the community. This effective practice offers examples of model programs in service-learning that encompass the Maryland school-based service-learning best practices, and describes the best practices used at these replication sites. Excerpted from the report A Replication Guide for School-Based Service-Learning by the Maryland Student Service Alliance of the Maryland State Department of Education, compiled in June 1996.

Urke, Brenda, and Madeline Wegner. Profiles in Service: A Handbook of Service-Learning Program Design Models. St. Paul, MN: National Youth Leadership Council, 1993.
Case studies of five successful service-learning programs profile the background, mission and goals, funding sources, curriculum strategies, replication, academic and community outcomes, and evaluation information.