Compact for Learning and Citizenship
Highlights

Helping students become citizens and communities become educators.

Highlights

Honors and Updates

Randall Collins (Waterford Public Schools - CT) and Steve Hefner (Richland School District Two - SC) were honored as 2002 Superintendents of the Year at the Opening Ceremonies of the American Association of School Administrators National Conference on Education. Dr. Collins is a founding board member of CLC and national leader in supporting service-learning. Dr. Hefner joined the board in 2001 and is the superintendent of one of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Learning In Deed Districts. Dr. Hefner's district was also honored when Dr. Sharon Buddin, a principal in the district, was named 2002 MetLife/NASSP National High School Principal of the Year. Congratulations to all the winners and especially to those supporting service-learning and CLC!

In addition to these highlights, CLC held two very successful meetings while at the AASA conference. One was a board meeting and the other a members meeting. Thanks to all board members and organization members who made the extra effort to attend these very important meetings.

The National Service-Learning Conference was a busy time for CLC staff and members. The National Center for Learning and Citizenship and CLC hosted the following:

• A one-day follow-up meeting from the work of the Every Student A Citizen initiative
• A preconference session focused on identifying and designing advocacy messages and how to deliver them
• The first (annual) Superintendent's Track, co-sponsored by State Farm and the National Service-Learning Partnership, with panelists Dale Kinsley, Roger Rada, Bill Hughes, Dan Prinzing (representing Idaho chief Marilyn Howard) and students from Dale's district. Participants came from 16 states, as well as Australia!
• Keynote addresses by CLC Executive Board members Delaine Eastin and Tim Shriver
• Policy Forums with featured panelists Delaine Eastin and Inez Tenenbaum
• Numerous meetings/sessions focused on policy, leadership, curriculum professional development, integration and more
• A meeting focusing on challenges and solutions to service-learning in urban schools.

Focus on Leadership

CLC has spent the last year focusing on the importance of leadership in service-learning. Board and youth leadership is key to the past year's successes.

Board Leadership: Executive Board members stepped up as national leaders and spokespersons for CLC and the merits of service-learning. Here's what some members have been doing:

• Suellen Reed was re-elected superintendent of public instruction in Indiana and incoming chairman of the Council of Chief State School Officers.
• Frank Newman serves as a member of the Learning In Deed National Commission on Service-Learning.
• Dale Kinsley was voted Washington 2001 Superintendent of the Year.
• An interview with Delaine Eastin, incoming CLC chairman, was posted on the American Association of School Administrators' Web site.
• Paula Papponi was recognized internationally for her research using service-learning to achieve student success.
• John Benson hosted an American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C., to inform national policymakers on how service-learning addresses schools' civic mission.
• Tom LaGrasta's district service-learning efforts were highlighted in "The Right Stuff: Service-Learning and the Sharon Public Schools," School Business Affairs, October 2000.
• Sheldon Berman provided leadership on the Learning In Deed Stakeholders Network.

Joe Franco

Youth Leadership: Just as national leadership is key in supporting service-learning, so is advocating for youth involvement.

• During the past year, Joe Franco, a student from Lakewood, Colorado, participated in the Ford-funded Every Student A Citizen work. Joe was highlighted in the March 2001 issue of Teen People magazine as one of the top 20 youth who will change the world. He also was a featured speaker at the National Service-Learning Conference held in April in Denver, Colorado.
• CLC collaborated with Do Something to produce an issue paper on Integrating Youth Voice in Service-Learning (February 2001)

Governor Jim Geringer, Wyoming

Leadership Efforts on the National Scene:

• CLC managed the LID Policy and Practice Demonstration Project in five states (California, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, South Carolina) and eight network states (Hawaii, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Vermont, Wisconsin, Washington).
• Governor Jim Geringer of Wyoming, ECS President Ted Sanders, CLC chairman-elect Delaine Eastin, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Mae Schunk and other ECS commissioners participated with Minnesota youth in service-learning at the 2000 ECS National Forum.

Education Leadership Colloquium (ELC): CLC and Campus Compact designed an Education Leadership Colloquium to be held at the 2001 ECS National Forum on Education Policy in Philadelphia.

• State teams made up of college/university presidents, chief state school officers and district superintendents will come together to discuss and commit to a set of actions that align teaching and learning processes with the civic mission of the American education systems.
• Outcomes include a proclamation and commitment by education leaders to focus on their civic mission by working with their P-16 education colleagues and a document listing specific action steps to achieve school and university civic missions. This document will also examine specific exemplary processes and programs, explore policy implications for citizenship education and the "engaged campus" and identify future activities of ELC participants.

Providing Educators with Tools and Information They Can Use . . .

In the area of teacher preparation, CLC:

• Formalized collaboration with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to provide technical assistance to teacher education colleges
• Produced issue papers used in providing technical assistance to college faculties.

In the area of professional development, CLC:

• Produced, in partnership with SEANet, the Service-Learning and Standards Toolkit, a resource for service-learning practitioners and administrators
• Worked to design processes to align service-learning principles with Junior ROTC programs · Co-hosted "Next Steps Consortium" meetings, bringing together more than 20 states to focus on Integrating Service-Learning Through Leadership and Policy
• Produced high-quality publications used nationwide in service-learning training.

In relation to P-16 education, a seamless path of service-learning for lifelong learning, CLC:

• Provided P-16 technical assistance
• Convened South Carolina LID districts to explore current service-learning efforts
• Hosted a meeting of Washington State service-learning advocates focusing on the advancement of service-learning.

Future Work: CLC's Schools as Citizens initiative received funding from the Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation for the first year of a three-year initiative focusing on using service-learning as a teaching method for students to achieve citizenship knowledge, values, skills and commitment. The initiative will involve collaboration among Hawaii, Indiana and Vermont, the National Council for the Social Studies, Harmony School and the National School Reform Faculty.

Policy Work: National, State and District CLC's national initiatives -- Learning In Deed, Every Student A Citizen and Schools as Citizens -- focus on the role of policy to sustain high-quality service-learning. During the past year, comprehensive policy reviews provided insights for service-learning advocates and policymakers.

Following are some highlights of findings and strategies to advance service-learning at the national, state and district levels.

At the national level:

• Integrate service-learning into education and youth development programming authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• Integrate service-learning into the work of national teacher education organizations
• Infuse service-learning into U.S. Department of Education policies.

At the state level:

• Permit service-learning activities to be applied to graduation requirements
• Develop a policy strategy to integrate service-learning into every school and grade level
• Connect service-learning to key state policies for academic achievement
• Develop policies that establish a stable funding base for service-learning.

At the district level:

• Encourage and integrate service-learning into existing district policy (e.g., school-to-work)
• Grant permission to use service-learning as a teaching and learning strategy to reach education goals
• Integrate service-learning into preservice and inservice teacher training and professional development
• Create district policies that establish a permanent service-learning staff position
• Create district policies that establish priority for service-learning in hiring, promotion and other areas.