Bringing Service-Learning to your School District

Posted by on November 19, 2004

We are pleased to announce the release of District Lessons, a new publication series that focuses on promoting service-learning at the school district level.

Research on effective education reforms points to the critical role of decisions made in school districts — by school board members, superintendents, and administrators. Their decisions can provide the support principals and teachers need to successfully adopt service-learning as a core instructional strategy. Our goal in this series is to provide you with the tools and resources to grow service-learning in your school district, drawing on the considerable knowledge of our members.

This series begins with a dramatic call from David Hornbeck on how to “scale” service-learning at the district-level, as well as at the national and state levels. David is a distinguished educational leader, currently the President of the International Youth Foundation, and formerly superintendent of the school district of Philadelphia and a member of the National Commission on Service-Learning.

Over the coming months, we will continue to provide you new issues of District Lessons, while supplementing these publications with examples, tools, tips, and other resources that respond to your needs.

To view and download the first issue of District Lessons, please visit:

http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/publications/distlessons1.cfm

Let us know how this series can be more helpful to you by contacting the Partnership’s Director of District Initiatives, Theo Luebke, at tluebke@aed.org.