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1. What Is Service Learning?
2. Community Benefits of Service Learning
3. What You Can Do
4. Connections to School Reform
5. Developing Meaningful Projects
6. Community Resources
7. Parent Resources

Service Learning: Renewing Schools and Communities

Learning is the centerpiece of service-learning . Students learn important academic content and they learn skills that will equip them for higher education and the world of work. Service learning also teaches those "habits of heart" that will help them to become contributing members of a family and community.

What is Service-Learning?

Service-Learning is:

• Second graders writing stories and letters for children in shelters.
• Civics students helping new immigrants pass their citizenship tests.
• Middle school students developing a bird sanctuary and providing tours for the Audubon Society as part of their study of birds and migration.
• Students using their computer and history skills to produce "history boxes" for the local museum.
• Students providing leadership for the district's technology program, testing and refining software systems and installing a complex wiring system.
• Students writing and producing a promotional video about a shelter for homeless teens.
• Industrial design students planning and building a wheelchair for a 18-month-old child with multiple sclerosis.

1. What Is Service Learning?
2. Community Benefits of Service Learning
3. What You Can Do
4. Connections to School Reform
5. Developing Meaningful Projects
6. Community Resources
7. Parent Resources