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A Service Learning Partnership where Everyone Wins
Washington -- Kerry McManus stands behind the ninth grade Windward student as she leans down to collect a water sample from the Schell Ditch Basin. "Make sure you take the sample from the middle, not the edge," Kerry coaches the student. "You don't want sediment in your sample."See the complete story.

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Advisors to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse provide sector-specific guidance and expertise to insure a responsive, contemporary, and vibrant NSLC. RMC Research Corporation is the NSLC program advisor for K-12 service-learning. Meet the Program Advisors from each sector of our service-learning community.

Service-Learning is... Hot Topic: Getting Started K-12 Service-Learning Project Planning Toolkit (4870K pdf) SLICE 2009 - K-12 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
ACHP Announces Nationwide Grassroots Service Learning Effort The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) urges historic preservation organizations to create local service learning and/or community service opportunities for students and school systems across the United States in an effort to more widely share and increase public awareness of the benefits of historic preservation. Full press release (65K pdf). See also the Service-Learning & Historic Preservation page.
Community Service and Service-Learning in America’s Schools, 2008 This report provides an in-depth look at the prevalence of community service and service-learning in public schools and provides insight into recent trends. It is the result of a survey of a national sample of more than 2,000 K-12 public school principals across America conducted by the Corporation in partnership with the independent research firm Westat.
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Service Reflection Toolkit This toolkit (490K pdf). Northwest Service Academy. The basics of what reflection is and sample questions, as well as information about the benefits of the process. Connecting Thinking and Action: Ideas for Service-Learning Reflection By the RMC Research Corporation. Reflection is one of the most powerful components of service-learning. This 104 page book helps educators by giving them ideas for connecting thinking and action in service-learning. Download a free copy (1190K pdf) or contact RMC Research Corporation for a print copy ($20) by calling 1-800-922-3636.
Information for Action: A Journal for Service-Learning Research with Children and Youth The Journal is a peer-reviewed publication that features relevant, methodologically sound studies of service-learning impacts and examples of innovative instruction written by experts, scholars, practitioners, and youth.
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