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What is Service-Learning?
Service-learning is the potent combination of meaningful service to the community, academically rigorous classroom education and deliberate, structured reflection so that students connect what they are learning to the service performed. Service-learning is not just about "going out and doing good." It involves learning and intellectual skills, performing needed service and producing real results that command respect. Service-learning provides students with the skills and virtues that enable them to participate fully in a civil society and contribute to the sustainability of our democracy.

Welcome to ECS' issue site on service-learning. This site is designed to help policymakers and educators understand the teaching and learning pedagogy of service-learning and how it can help improve student achievement and performance, contribute to education reform efforts, meet state standards and assessments, and build vibrant, healthy communities. In service-learning, students relate their service experience directly to their school curriculum, while at the same time making a valued contribution to their schools, neighborhoods and communities.

The National Center for Learning and Citizenship (NCLC) is the service-learning initiative supported by ECS. Specifically, ECS provides:

  • A national voice for service-learning
  • Leadership in service-learning policy efforts
  • Communication strategies through its Web site and product development/dissemination capacities
  • Funding of development opportunities
  • Organizational capacity for NCLC
  • Opportunities to include service-learning within other ECS initiatives, programs and activities.

For more information about service-learning or the National Center for Learning and Citizenship, contact:

Paul Baumann, Acting Director
303-299-3608
pbaumann@ecs.org

Brady Delander, Assistant Editor
303-299-3622
bdelander@ecs.org

 

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The ECS National Center for Learning and Citizenship
Resources to help teachers, administrators, policymakers and leaders use and promote service-learning and citizenship education.

State Policies for Service-Learning
This database contains information about the state policies that support service-learning/community service in all 50 states.

 
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