Service Learning: A Comprehensive Guide to School & Community-Based Activities

Service Learning – A Comprehensive Guide to School and Community Activities arrives at exactly the right time.

Service-Learning is a powerful process that integrates teaching strategies and academic instruction with meaningful community service that provides students with a variety of authentic, action-based, experience-rich opportunities that strengthens individuals, schools and communities.

The strength of this book lies in its comprehensive approach.  It bring together essential elements of effective service-learning into a cohesive and easily accessible framework. The chapters are structured to offer both practical application and fundamental comprehension.

Readers will examine topics like:

•       How to establish and sustain a viable service-learning program; 

•       The value of creating an intentional school culture and learning;

•       How to implement volunteerism, mentoring, internships, community service and random acts of kindness that builds student character, responsibility and commitment;  and

•       The impact service-learning has upon building student academic achievement and success, civic knowledge and skills, personal development, social and interpersonal development, leadership skills and career options.

This book is fundamentally about more than just tactics and methods. It reinforces the idea that school leaders and teachers serve not only as valuable instructors but advisors, mentors, trailblazers and agents of change.  

It is about the goal of changing and impacting the lives of students, as well as their local communities.  It is about taking the vision of service-learning and renewing the influence school leaders have on students, school, communities, and the continuous process of growth, development and civic responsibility.     

It is a call to education, leadership and action.

138 Pages