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K-12 Sector Service-Learning Success Stories
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Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse knows what great work you do and we want others to know too. Please send us stories and photos of your service-learning successes and we will publicize them on the Clearinghouse website and in our print material.
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The mission of our service project is to strive to aid people who are victims of socioeconomic circumstances over which they have limited control by providing relief in a welcoming environment, showing that we will put forth the effort to struggle with them. To accomplish this goal, we chose to donate our time and volunteer at Inspiration Café. The café is located in Uptown on Chicago’...K-12 Sector
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Mission Description Raising awareness in the Lake Forest Academy community is one of our major goals. We want to educate all members of the community including all students, teachers, and other families who live on the campus. We want to show them what the dangers of distracted driving, especially texting while driving, are. We would like to make sure every one in the school is made aware...K-12 Sector
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Our sophomore seminar class focuses on community service. Our group chose to organize a drive for underprivileged children. We chose children living in poverty in Tanzania because a student in our group was planning to travel there over her spring break and could deliver the supplies. We decided that the best approach was to ask for donations of school supplies from our school community,...K-12 Sector
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We are a group of sophomore students at Lake Forest Academy whose mission was to raise money in order to buy school supplies for students less fortunate than us. In order to do this, we organized a team composed of students who were interested in bettering the education system in America. To begin our task, we set out a mission statement for what we wanted to achieve and came up with a...K-12 Sector
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As a student at Lake Forest Academy, service is an important aspect of the curriculum and community. This year multitudes of students from Lake Forest Academy have participated in environment oriented service in order to give back to the local community. For our personal service project we went to participate in a service day on April 3rd at Lake Forest Open Lands, a local organization...K-12 Sector
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Oakridge Middle School, Clover, SC Giving Back Team Project supported the Books 2 Students Project this year. This project supports the "Corridor of Shame" Schools in South Carolina. The "Corridor of Shame" schools are high poverty schools with limited resources. We partnered with the York County Education Association-Retired on the project. We set a school-wide goal to...K-12 Sector
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This project expanded on an existing partnership to add a service-learning component to ongoing mentoring relationships. RSVP mentors and their mentees engaged in service together, choosing one of two opportunities: 1) One group volunteered at the Northwest Iowa Food Bank to learn about the scope and depth of hunger in their community. Six mentors and their mentees packed over 300 bags of...K-12 Sector
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As part of National Emergency Preparedness Month, over 40 people participated in a four hour workshop titled, "Are YOU Ready? Emergency Preparedness for Senior Citizens" on September 19, 2007. The class was organized by the Byron-Bergen Emergency Response Team (BBERT), a student group that supports health, safety and disaster planning initiatives throughout the Byron-Bergen...K-12 Sector
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The SaYES award allowed Marshfield R-1 School District to enhance and support existing service-learning projects across four schools and all grade levels. These included: 1) High school Students Opposed to Destructive Action (SODA) worked with older adult volunteers to develop a stage performance addressing safety issues for Kindergarten and first-graders. The older adults provided direction...K-12 Sector
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With support from a Learn and Serve grant, NASC has trained RSVP instructors in 40 states and provided financial support to over 350 student councils to train in the process and launch RSVP in their schools. The efforts over the past three years have engaged more than 44,000 students and generated over 120,000 hours of volunteer service. Read more... (99K pdf)K-12 Sector
