Youth Leadership for Community Action

Teachers

Welcome teachers! This website is an area where you can explore issues, ask questions, and brainstorm solutions as you carry out the Youth Leadership for Community Action curriculum.

You have access to an online forum where you can dialogue with other teachers and community members regarding the curriculum and student projects. Your combined knowledge and experiences will facilitate the implementation of the Youth Leadership for Community Action program, and assist newcomers as they begin to carry out the program as well.

You will find links to helpful materials and resources involving Youth Leadership and Service-Learning, as well as project ideas and success stories. This program is in its pilot phase so your input will prove invaluable as we shape the program and this website to best meet your needs. Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding questions, concerns or feedback for this site. We can be reached at belle@solv.org, or at (503) 844-9571. Thank you for agreeing to participate in this important program.

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Other Resources

• Service-Learning resource for teens, parents, and teachers from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, a program of Learn and Serve America and the Corporation for National and Community Service has available a web site that youth, parents, and teachers can visit to explore service-learning, find project examples, and investigate opportunities in service-learning.
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse: service-learning defined, glossary, resources and networking
• A very comprehensive issue paper: ‘Building Community Through Service-Learning: The Role of the Community Partner’ , by SOLV’s own Susan Abravanel, Education Director.
• The Academy for Educational Development is a non-profit organization working to solve critical problems worldwide. This site includes service-learning general information, service-learning projects, tools and publications. It also includes links and information to service-learning centers, experts, a link to the National Service-Learning Partnership, and links to leadership, workforce skills and youth development.
• An executive summary of, ‘Learning in Deed’, a report regarding the power of service-learning for American schools from the National Commission on service-learning. The report includes information regarding youth engagement, the promise and appeal of youth, the impact of service-learning and regarding implementing quality service-learning projects.
• The complete ‘Learning in Deed’ report.
• The Academy for Educational Development and the Learning in Deed Initiative’s Public Attitudes Toward Education and Service-Learning, which includes the role of service-learning in helping schools provide a successful education, the benefits of service-learning, and the potential hurdles one may face implementing service-learning projects.
• From the National Service-Learning Partnership, ‘Service-Learning Delivers What Americans Want from Schools’ (an executive summary of Public Attitudes toward Education and Service-Learning).
• The National Center for Education Statistics offers a summary of key findings regarding service-learning and community service in K-12 public schools.
• The National Youth Leadership Council: increasing the capacity of schools and communities to engage young people in active learning and service. Includes tips on service-learning: developing infrastructures, program models, public policies, best practices, tools, and leadership. Also links to service-learning programs, services and a service-learning resource center.
• Regarding young people becoming powerful, engaged leaders for social change. Includes links to resources, organizations, actions, issues and publications regarding Youth Leadership for Social Change
• YLI builds communities where young people and their adult allies come together to create positive social change. They design and implement community-based programs that provide youth with leadership skills in the areas of prevention, philanthropy, and policy and civic engagement. Building on these real-world program experiences, YLI creates evidence-based curriculum and training programs that enable us to engage in social change efforts across the nation, all while promoting best practices in the field of youth development. Includes capacity building tools for both youth- and adult-led organizations, publications, actions, policy, research and training.
• A service-learning resource guide, including a service-learning journal, from the American Association of Community Colleges.
• The National Service-Learning Partnership, a network of members advancing service-learning as a core part of every young person’s education. Includes service-learning links, teacher resources and publications.