Since 2011, the International Service-Learning (ISL) Summit has worked to develop an inclusive community of practice across stakeholders, including students, educators, practitioners, and community organizations – concerned with mobilizing for best practices and the highest standards in global service learning. Each ISL Summit has stimulated conversations around critical issues facing the field. Through an applied conference framework, participants have built community and determined action steps for the field. Previous ISL Summits have brought attention to the need for more rigorous assessment of student learning and community impact; to develop an online space to share tools and research to advance best practices in global service learning (see http://globalsl.org), along with emerging discussions to create a coordinating body that will support greater inclusion and increased collaboration across higher education programs, volunteer sending organizations, and host communities.

http://globalsl.org/isl4/

http://globalsl.org/ges/

The ISL Summit seeks proposals for individual sessions and team panel presentations involving various stakeholders. The summit will take place October 23 – 25, 2016, at Kansas State University. The proposal deadline is January 30.

Preference will be given to sessions that address:

• Domestic examples of global learning and cooperative development partnerships
• Effective practices in host communities (i.e., volunteer internship placement, homestay networks/vetting, orientation for students, homestay families, in-country staff and NGO supervisors, etc.)
• Flipped or collaborative cultural sensitivity/competency training, global citizenship development, global activism, or global solidarity-building
• Community-based research or research on global engagement
• Effective collaborations to jointly assess learning and community development outcomes
• Community-driven pedagogy, co-creation of global learning efforts, joint program planning, and effective community partnerships
• Research on global service-learning economies with attention to impact on host communities
• Partnership models that involve joint planning, co-evaluation, and collaborative research

Now in its 4th iteration, the International Service-Learning Summit has developed an inclusive community of practice across stakeholders, including students, educators, practitioners, and community organizations – concerned with mobilizing for best practices and the highest standards in global service learning.

Summit co-hosts include Cornell University, Duke University, Kansas State University, Northwestern University, The University of Notre Dame, Washington University in St. Louis.

Visit the summit website for proposal guidelines and more information.

http://globalsl.org/isl4/

We look forward to seeing you in Manhattan, Kansas in October, 2016!