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Community Service: Mandatory Or Voluntary?, Diane Loup
Community Service: Mandatory Or Voluntary?, Diane Loup
School K-12
School districts struggle to find the best approach for bringing a real-world aspect to learning.
Research On K-12 School-Based Service-Learning: The Evidence Builds, Shelley Billig
Research On K-12 School-Based Service-Learning: The Evidence Builds, Shelley Billig
School K-12
Practitioners and policy makers are curious about service-learning and its effects. Ms. Billig details for Kappan readers what research tells us about service-learning today and suggests the kinds of questions that still need to be answered.
Service-Learning: An Administrator's Tool For Improving Schools And Connecting With The Community, Sheldon Berman, Sheila Bailey, Randall Collins, Dale Kinsley, Elizabeth Holman
Service-Learning: An Administrator's Tool For Improving Schools And Connecting With The Community, Sheldon Berman, Sheila Bailey, Randall Collins, Dale Kinsley, Elizabeth Holman
School K-12
What should students know and be able to do by the time they graduate high school? This basic question is at the heart of most education reforms in recent years. Increasingly, the answer lies not just in strong academic skills but also in a sense of self and the individual’s role in supporting and building a vibrant community.
Learning Our Freedom, Ingrid Flory, Debra Henzey
Learning Our Freedom, Ingrid Flory, Debra Henzey
School K-12
Over the past three years, several events have drawn attention to the startling stare of civic education in North Carolina.
Engaging Students In Community Issues, Kara A. Mccraw, Susan S. Taylor
Engaging Students In Community Issues, Kara A. Mccraw, Susan S. Taylor
School K-12
How can you integrate community resources in the classroom in an exciting and dynamic way? We set out to answer this question in the summer of 1999 when we attended a conference sponsored by the North Carolina Institute of Government. Our immediate goal was to help the freshmen students we teach in a course called ELPSA (Economic, Legal and Political Systems in Action) understand the importance of active citizenship and prudent fiscal decision making. What better way to teach this than through real life examples? After our conference and the introduction to a number of valuable resources and contact points …
Workforce 2000: Reshaping For School-Work-Career Transitions, Terry Pickeral, Dawn Wegter, Ellen Winiarczyk, Debbie Driver, Liz Newport, Eve Alitzer, Kellie Bond, Jill Painter-Holmes, Linda Burgess
Workforce 2000: Reshaping For School-Work-Career Transitions, Terry Pickeral, Dawn Wegter, Ellen Winiarczyk, Debbie Driver, Liz Newport, Eve Alitzer, Kellie Bond, Jill Painter-Holmes, Linda Burgess
School K-12
This document discusses: Definitions and Elements; Program Development; Narratives and Articles; Curriculum Resoures; Reflection; and Assessment.