Service-Learning guidebook offered

Kids As Planners: A Guide To Strengthening Students, Schools, And Communities Through Service-Learning (Second Edition), is available through the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse at http://www.servicelearning.org/lib_svcs/lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6450 (click on How to borrow this item from the NSLC Library for information).

This guidebook provides teachers, school administrators, students, and community partners with a process for designing, implementing, and evaluating a service-learning project. It demonstrates how service-learning can effectively meet many educational reform objectives: standards-based learning, character education, and school-to-career initiatives. Including reproducible examples, tools, and strategies, KIDS As Planners is a resource to help schools advance educational goals while deepening the relationship between students and their communities. Topics include: Getting Started; Studying Problems and Solutions; Designing and Implementing a Project; Developing the Academic Components; Sustaining Service-Learning; Resources; and Reproducible Tools.

Last updated on 5/15/2006