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2007 Institute

San Diego, CA 

The 2007 Service-Learning Institute was in San Diego and took “Pathways to Sustainable Service-Learning Growth” as its title.  The “Pathways” offered were:

Strengthening networking and collaboration among the twelve CalServe Service-Learning Region

  • Sharing of resources, ideas, and programs
  • Marketing of services
  • Fundraising for service-learning
Building connections with strong, existing initiatives.
  • Afterschool programs
  • Environmental education
  • Civic Mission of Education
  • Cesar E. Chavez Days of Service
Encouraging district policies and professional development that provide effective support for classroom teachers.
  • Board policies and district practices that are working
  • Teacher friendly ideas for implementing service-learning
  • Applying service-learning to achieve California Standards
Emphasizing the importance and power of research and evaluation.
  • Making use of emerging research to support high quality service-learning
  • Applying user-friendly evaluation tools for continuous program improvement
  • Invigorating service-learning with youth development principles
In this way, the Institute focused on the work of broadening the range of Service-Learning and creating a sustainable support system for Service-Learning in schools.

Links and Related Resources

National Youth Leadership Council

Youth Service America

CaliforniaVolunteers

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

National Service-Learning Partnership