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Volume 12 No.1
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Introducing
Community Service Learning
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Lead Article Talking Points Project Profiles FYI Review Corner Conferences Resources About CRF Contact Archives
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Step-By-Step Guide to Solving Community Problems
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Service-Learning
NETWORK
John A. Kronstadt
President
Todd
Clark
Executive Director Marshall Croddy Director of Programs Charles Degelman Editor Carolyn Pereira, Executive Director, CRFC Consultant Andrew Costly Production Manager
©2006, Service-Learning
NETWORK This issue of Service-Learning
NETWORK is made
possible by a generous grant from The Ford
Foundation.
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Talking Points: The California Survey of Civic Education The California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools recently commissioned a survey to examine the civic knowledge, skills, and commitments of graduating California high school seniors. The 2005 survey interviewed 2,366 California students who had completed a U.S. government course. [more]
Project Profiles: Youth Courts and Community Service Learning Two diverse youth courts, one in New York City and one in rural and suburban Placer County, California, have thoroughly integrated school-based learning components into their community-service programs. Each profile offers its own unique view of how best to put the "learning" into court-mandated community service. [more]
FYI: Service Learning and Balanced and Restorative Justice School-based service learning and court-based balanced and restorative justice share many of the same goals and objectives. Justice agencies have begun to explore methods to apply the expertise that educators have developed about service learning to foster restorative justice, raise civic awareness, and reduce recidivism through mandated community service more. [more]
Conferences [more] Service-Learning Institute June 6, 2006, Jackson, Mississippi The 3rd Annual Service-Learning Summer Institute: Developing Leaders, Building Character June 6, 2006–June 8, 2006, Austin, Texas National Conference on Volunteering and Service June 18, 2006–June 20, 2006, Seattle, Washington Civic Leadership Institute June 25, 2006–July 14, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland Community Works Institute on Service-Learning July 24, 2006–July 28, 2006, Shelburne, Vermont Urban Service-Learning Institute: Enriching Urban Education Through Service-Learning August 23, 2006, Nashville, Tennessee Living Democracy Conference: Integrating Service-Learning with Civics and History August 10, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts Cultivating Our Partnerships: Learning through Collaboration September 21, 2006–September 23, 2006, Lincoln, Nebraska 6th International Service-Learning Research Conference October 14, 2006–October 16, 2006, Portland, Oregon 2006 Assessment Institute in Indianapolis October 29, 2006–October 31, 2006, Indianapolis, Indiana |
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 Coming Soon! The Spring, 2007 issue
of S-L NETWORK will focus on The Challenge of School Violence, featuring CRF curricular materials, research links, and other service-learning resources. Dear NETWORK reader...Welcome to Service- Learning NETWORK Online! Are you on our e-mail list? Take
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In this issue, Service-
Learning NETWORK
explores how—and why—the juvenile justice system is borrowing from
service
learning and other school-based methodologies. The Lead
Article,
“Introducing Community Service Learning,” explores the connection
between
court-mandated community service, youth courts, and school-based
service learning. Talking
Points
features a chart that
underscores the connections between the goals and
objectives of court-based balanced and restorative justice and those of
school-based service learning. In Project
Profiles, we
feature two
youth courts, one in New York, one in California, that have integrated
service-learning components deep into their programs. FYI
looks
at
“The California Survey of Civic Education,” a study of the civic
knowledge,
skills, and commitments of graduating high school seniors throughout
the state. Review
Corner
looks
at a newly revised service
learning
guide that helps
students develop citizenship skills and knowledge while they plan and
implement
service-learning projects. A list of upcoming service-learning Conferences
and a Resources
section
completes the issue. New! Improved! Giving Back Introducing Community Service Learning  Improving Mandated Community Service for Juvenile Offenders Download the .pdf Edition FREE! Student Voices What's New? Speak Out! Election Countdown  Explore local government, policy issues, and political campaigns. Check out the web site today! |
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