> Resources   Bring Learning to Life (Search Tips)       Across America , service-learning is helping students perform better in school while improving their communities through service. By connecting classroom lessons with community service projects, service-learning engages students and brings learning to life!         Learn and Serve America has created a new set of tools – available for free – to help you spread the word about the benefits of service-learning and grow the movement of service-learning from 30 percent of K-12 schools to more than 50 percent of schools in the next five years.         Orders for these materials are being processed by Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. To request these materials, click on the 'order' links below, send an email to orders@servicelearning.org, or call 1-866-245-7378, extension 130.           Bring Learning to Life (program video)   This eight-minute video offers insights from teachers, principals, and students who have experienced the benefits of service-learning, and provides an introduction to service-learning as an effective strategy to improve academic achievement, increase student engagement, improve social behavior, build civic skills, and strengthen community partnerships. The video, available in VHS, CD-Rom, DVD formats, also includes two television public service announcements titled School (60 seconds and 30 seconds in length).   Place your order now (VHS - limit of one video per person). Read ideas on how to use the program video in your work.       School (TV PSA)   These 60-second and 30-second television PSAs introduce service-learning to parents and students, and encourage them to learn more about service-learning in order to get their school involved with service-learning.   View or download the 60-second PSA now with Windows Media Player (3200K). View or download the PSA storyboard (6700 K pdf) Order BETA formats for airing on your local broadcast stations.           Customizable Program Brochure   This eight-panel color brochure introduces the concept of service-learning, provides testimonials from teachers, students, and administrators about the benefits of service-learning, and uses research-based explanations of why service-learning works. The back of the brochure can be customized with your logo and program information.   Order now. For simple customization, you can place a sticker with your program information in the white space on the back of the brochure. View or Download the brochure (540K pdf). If you have Photoshop or other design software, you can drop in your logo and program information electronically.         Service-Learning: In Action Guide   This guide to the basics of service-learning for K-12 practitioners is a companion piece to the Bring Learning to Life video. Teachers can use this guide to help integrate service-learning into their classrooms to strengthen and enhance academic development. This guide may also be helpful for the application of service-learning in less formal educational environments such as after-school programs and youth groups.   Order now. View or Download the guide in booklet format. (339K pdf) (This version is in booklet format to be printed on 25.5" x 11" paper.) Alternatively, View or Download the guide for easy reading and printing on letter sized paper (8.5" x 11"). (851K pdf)         (High School version)   Service-Learning Poster   Service-Learning Poster  Use these 17x22 color posters to carry the “Bring Learning to Life” theme into your school or organization. There are three versions of this poster, each featuring students in the community and the classroom.   Order now or View/Download. Elementary High School -- OUT OF STOCK Higher Education Please specify which poster version you want.         Three-Panel Exhibit Display   Have a conference or training coming up? Borrow our three-panel service-learning display to use for your session or exhibit space. The three-panel display is lightweight and easy to set up, and comes in a sturdy carrying case with wheels. It can be used as a tabletop exhibit or extended as a full-length display. The panels feature a variety of service-learning photos so that you can choose the ones that are most compelling for your audience. The displays will be shipped to you free of charge in time for your event. Once your event is over, attach the enclosed shipping slip to the display case and send it back by the agreed-upon due date.   View the exhibit. Request to borrow the exhibit for your event Word Doc (77K) or pdf (33K).           Tips for Spreading the Word about Service-Learning         Below are some tips and ideas for how to use these materials in your local efforts to educate others about the power of service-learning and the benefits of your program.         Program Video   Show it to all educators and staff in your school or organization. Contact your local cable access station to see if they will run the video in its entirety. Contact local and state educator associations to see if they will play the video at their trainings and conferences. Reach out to a neighboring school or organization to see if you can arrange a screening and information session on service-learning. Ask your local newspaper or television station if they will host a community screening and forum on service-learning. Show the video to potential community partners or funders to demonstrate how service-learning works and how they can be a part of it. Arrange a showing for your school board, town council, or other elected officials.   Brochures   In the white space on the back panel, include your program logo and contact information. You can use stickers or insert into a writeable PDF. Don't have the time or know-how? Use your students' talents! Distribute the brochures at trainings and events . Provide your community partners with a supply of brochures to distribute . Encourage teachers who use service-learning to share the brochures with parents during parent-teacher conferences to help educate them on the benefits of service-learning to their children.     Posters   Place the posters in your classroom. Ask your local library if they will hang a poster on its community bulletin board. Distribute them to other educators. Distribute them to community partners and service sites.     PSA Distributed Nationally to Thousands of Broadcast and Cable Television Stations   In late December, Learn and Serve America's first-ever television public service announcement was distributed to thousands of broadcast and cable stations nationwide.  In just one month, 78 stations have broadcast the PSA more than 1,000 times, reaching an estimated audience of more than 15 million viewers. Imagine how many more stations are likely to air the spots after being contacted by a service-learning program in their state or community urging them to spread this important message to parents, students, and teachers. Learn how you can make a difference and encourage local stations to play the PSA. If you have any additional questions, please contact Jacqueline Aker (jaker@cns.gov) or Shannon Maynard (smaynard@cns.gov) in our Office of Public Affairs.                 Print this Page | Email this Page Make a Suggestion