Ammon, M. S., et. al. “Sustaining and Institutionalizing Service-Learning.” Chap. 7 in Service-Learning in California: A Profile of the CalServe Service-Learning Partnerships (1997-2000). Sacramento: CalServe, 2003.
This report presents a statewide profile of the goals, accomplishments, and impacts of 35 K-12 service-learning partnerships that participated in the California Department of Education's service-learning initiative (CalServe Initiative) between 1997 and 2000. The findings detailed in the report represent partnerships’ responses to a set of overarching questions, which focused on detailing the impacts of service-learning on students, teachers, schools, districts, and the community. These responses were analyzed by researchers from UC Berkeley’s Service-Learning Research & Development Center over the three-year period.

Billig, Shelley H. “ Adoption, Implementation, and Sustainability of K-12 Service-Learning.” In Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy, edited by Andy Furco and Shelley H. Billig, 245-267. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2002.

Braun, Joan. “ Integrating Service-Learning into the School Culture.” In Critical Issues in K-12 Service Learning: Case Studies and Reflections, edited by Gita Gulati-Partee and William R. Finger. Alexandria, VA: National Society for Experiential Education, 1996.

Crabb, Fritz. “ Sustaining Service-Learning through Political Change.” In Gita Gulati-Partee and William R. Finger, Eds. Critical Issues in K-12 Service Learning: Case Studies and Reflections, edited by Gita Gulati-Partee and William R. Finger. Alexandria, VA: National Society for Experiential Education, 1996.  

Education Commission of the States. Learning That Lasts: How Service-Learning can Become an Integral Part of Schools, States, and Communities. Denver: Education Commission of the States, 2002. This booklet answers the question, "what would it take to make service-learning part of every student's education experience?" based on ECS’s work as part of Learning In Deed: Making a Difference Through Service-Learning.  

Kramer, Michael. Make it Last Forever: The Institutionalization of Service Learning in America. Washington, DC: Corporation for National Service, 2000.
Michael Kramer’s National Service Fellowship research focused on identifying strategies that schools, districts, and states have used to successfully institutionalize service-learning in American K-12 schools. Kramer surveyed 20 state Learn and Serve Coordinators and other national service-learning organizations to select 80 schools and districts that participated in interviews detailing their progress towards sustaining service-learning as an instructional strategy. The synthesis of this information was used to compile a conceptual model and map of the relevant institutionalization factors. This information was then used to suggest an assessment and design process for institutionalizing service-learning at each level.

Melchior, Alan, and Larry Bailis. Institutionalizing Service-Learning: Preliminary Findings from a Study of Learn and Serve America. Presentation at the 2nd annual International Service-Learning Research Conference, Nashville, TN. October, 2002.

RMC Research. Sustaining Service-Learning in K-12 Schools: NSLC Fact Sheet. Scotts Valley, CA: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2002.