[YOUR NAME(S)] [YOUR SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION, OR GROUP]

[THE DATE OF YOUR PRESENTATION]

• What is Service-Learning?

• Core Components of

Service-Learning

• Benefits of Service-Learning

• Statistics About Service-Learning

• Project Examples

• More Information

Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities

Investigation 

Planning

Action

Reflection

Demonstration/Celebration

Shelley Billig, RMC Research, 2009

Service-learning helps you:

• Develop job skills

• Meet other young people

• Strengthen your college and scholarship applications

• Obtain an internship or job in an exciting field

• Have more fun and get more meaning from your classes

How it helps your community:

• Real needs are addressed by feeding the homeless, tutoring students who are struggling, developing wetlands, and more

• Changes occur because of students’ ideas, energy and commitment

• Other people are inspired to get and stay involved in their community

• The community gains a great resource – you!

Learn and Serve America:• More than 1.1 MILLION young people engage in service through the Learn and Serve America program

Service in America’s schools:• The percentage of K-12 public schools

offering service programs grew to 68% in 2008

• High schools are especially likely to recognize community service

• 96% of schools with service programs report that the percentage of students participating has remained the same or increased

Campus Compact Survey:• 2,226,682 students participated in some

form of service

• An average of 37 faculty members per campus taught service-learning courses

• Member campuses offered an average of 36 service-learning courses each

• 12% of campuses required service-learning courses for graduation

• [Insert your service-learning program]

• K-12 schools – Carroll County, Md.

• Tribal – Fort McDermitt Paiute/Shoshone Tribe in McDermitt, Nev.

• Higher education – Otterbein College’s Creative Literacy Alliance

• Community-based – Children for Children, a New York City-based service-learning nonprofit organization

Learn and Serve Americawww.learnandserve.gov

Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghousewww.servicelearning.org

Service-Learning Youth Speaker’s Bureauwww.servicelearning.org/lsa/ysb

Learn & Serve Challengewww.learnandservechallenge.org

Learn and Serve America: Higher Edwww.nationalservice.gov/highered

Bring Learning To Lifewww.servicelearning.org/lsa/bring_learning

Corporation for National and Community Servicewww.nationalservice.gov

The Learn and Serve America program is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency whose mission is to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering. The Corporation provides opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to serve their communities through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America.

NationalService.gov