Service-Learning Professional Development Modules

Created by James Toole of Compass Institute and the University of Minnesota, a CD offers three professional development modules that contain off-the-shelf materials that are easy to use by teachers and teacher educators.

• The 90-minute module focuses on learning the change framework of adoption, implementation, and institutionalization for service-learning.
• The 4-hour workshop adds guidance for participant reflection on all three change components.
• The third module is formatted as a group discussion for study groups that meet five times rather than in a single workshop.

The CD was adapted from a W.K. Kellogg Foundation retrospective study of its 18 service-learning grantees over a 10-year period. Download the CD >

K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice

Evidence-based standards and accompanying indicators that K-12 practitioners can use to ensure high-quality service-learning practice, developed by the National Youth Leadership Council and RMC Research Corporation. http://www.nylc.org/standards

Standards for Effective Service-Learning Practice

The National Youth Leadership Council’s compendium of resources on what attributes of service-learning best foster academic, civic, and social gains for students, based on decades of educational research and the experience of seasoned service-learning practitioners and participants.
http://www.nylc.org/rc_toolkits_detail.cfm?emoid=16:760

Tool Kit for Service-Learning

Educational tools to help you understand service-learning as a pedagogical tool, implement service-learning projects, and educate colleagues about the principles and practices of service-learning. Developed by Chicago Public Schools Service-Learning Initative. http://www.servicelearning.cps.k12.il.us/Tools.html

Center for Civic Education

The center provides free professional development opportunities for elementary, middle, and high school educators; university/ college professors; members of the legal community; We the People Programs state and congressional district coordinators; and youth organization leaders throughout the nation and in selected sites throughout the world.