Compact for Learning and Citizenship
Learning in Deed

Helping students become citizens and communities become educators.

Learning In Deed: Making a Difference Through Service-Learning

Policy and Practice Demonstration Project

The Compact for Learning and Citizenship is engaged in a national K-12 service-learning initiative supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. As part of the Policy and Practice Demonstration Project (PPDP), CLC is working with five states -- California, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon and South Carolina -- to institutionalize service-learning. These states were selected based on their experiences, commitment and leadership to move service-learning to greater levels of institutionalization at the state, district and school levels.

PPDP operates under the following assumptions:

• Large-scale institutional change in education depends, in part, on support from state-level education leaders and policymakers.

• States are key intermediaries in the education system.

• States need assistance and guidance in developing more effective state and district policies supporting service-learning.

• PPDP states provide a laboratory for testing and refining strategies for improving policy and practice.

The PPDP states focus on service-learning through the lenses of (1) policy, (2) practice and (3) capacity/infrastructure.

• Policy (i.e., permission, resources and priorities) is examined along a continuum from "inhibiting" to "supporting" service-learning institutionalization.

• Practice is highest quality and aligned with state, district and school missions, standards and priorities.

• Capacity/infrastructure is the implementation of supportive systems to institutionalize service-learning.

• For information about the National Service-Learning Partnership, contact www.service-learningpartnership.org.
  
  
• For information on the National Commission on Service-Learning, contact www.servicelearningcommission.org.
  
  
• For print copies of the full report, executive summary and video of Learning In Deed: The Power of Service-Learning for American Schools, please contact the W.K. Kellogg Foundation at 1-800-819-9997 or request by e-mail at WKKFORD@ISERV.NET.