Sage Session: National Learn & Serve Challenge

Posted by on August 6, 2007

Sage Session Featuring Amy Cohen
Wednesday August 15th 2007
2:00 PM EST, 1:00 PM CST, 12:00 PM MST. 11:00 AM PST

Sage Session Featuring Amy Cohen, Director of Learn and Serve America, Corporation for National & Community Service.

Topic: Be A Solution: Take the National Learn & Serve Challenge.
Amy will share and solicit strategies for leveraging The National Learn & Serve Challenge to raise the visibility of service-learning in your site town/ city/ state/region.

Amy will provide techniques for connecting and collaborating with allies, accessing stakeholders, cultivating champions, and making the most of the media. This isn’t a one-sided conversation. Best practices come from the field. Amy wants to hear what your sites are doing to take the challenge. Please submit your ideas, successes and strategies for outreach and visibility.

Pre-Session Preparation:
1. This is an on-line interactive session, so you can post questions during the session. However, to ensure your question is addressed, please send them to Amy at "sl_sage": <a href="http://slyoungprofessionals.org/messages.php">http://slyoungprofessionals.org/messages.php</a> by COB Monday August 13th, 2007. You can also email Heather Margolis: hmargolis@aed.org.

2. Take the National Learn & Serve Challenge:

3. Submit your ideas and activities describing how your site will show support for service-learning during the National Learn & Serve Challenge: <a href="http://www.learnandservechallenge.org">http://www.learnandservechallenge.org</a>

The most innovative or creative suggestions will be announced in the next SLYPN Newsletter and receive free Be A Solution t-shirts.

Live Sage Session:
On August 15th Amy Cohen will be logged on to the SLYPN website’s Sage Page found on the Forum Tab. Registration is free and required to participate.

What is SLYPN?

The Service-Learning Young Professionals Network (SLYPN) was created to provide young professionals (20-30-somethings) opportunities to develop the skills and capacity needed to pursue interests, and advance their careers in service-learning. Membership is free. Learn more at <a href="http://www.slyoungprofessionals.org/">http://www.slyoungprofessionals.org/</a>

What are Sage Sessions?
Sage sessions provide young professionals the opportunity to interact with service-learning experts on the Service-Learning Young Professionals’ Network. This helps create a flow of information from experts to the members and also helps cultivates community of learners.

Learn more by reading the FAQ:
<a href="http://slyoungprofessionals.org/docs/Sage Session FAQ.doc">http://slyoungprofessionals.org/docs/Sage Session FAQ.doc</a>

* 2007 Service-Learning Young Professionals Network

SLYPN is administered by the National Service-Learning Partnership at the Academy for Educational Development-with strategic support and leadership from Youth Service California.