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Growing to Greatness 2006 1 Introduction Continued Growing to Greatness ™ 2006 Available from the NYLC Resource Center at www.nylc.org. Copyright © 2006 National Youth Leadership Council. All Rights Reserved. Service-Learning… National Youth Leadership Council As a philosophy, By the Numbers service-learning embraces young people • Founded in 1983, based at • Played major leadership role in • Initiated Growing to Greatness: as community University of Minnesota in the shaping Minnesota service/ The State of Service-Learning Project Center for Youth Development youth development legislation in 2003, resulting in an annual resources and assets. and Research. in 1987 and 1989, and a published report on the contributing role in federal movement. • Developed the first National service/service-learning As a community Youth Leadership Training in • Developed a searchable, legislation passed in 1990 development model, 1983, held nearly every summer interactive online resource with and 1993. service-learning since. selected service-learning • Developed national Generator materials and customizable addresses real issues • Has published the field’s Schools program, which functions, launched in 2006. only periodical on school- such as disaster relief, connected 40 K-8 schools based service-learning, • Developed summer WalkAbout pollution control, practicing service-learning in “The Generator,” since 1983. program, an intergenerational the 1990s. hunger, homelessness, model for service-learning in • Convened first National Service- and diversity. • Established the first National Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Learning Conference in 1989; Service-Learning Clearinghouse Chicago, and is now spreading last year The 16th Annual in 1993 in conjunction with the to the Gulf Coast for educational National Service-Learning As an University of Minnesota. implementation through the Conference attracted nearly 2,900 method, service- Summer of Service 2006. participants from all 50 states • Leads the National Service- learning is a form of and more than 40 countries. Learning Exchange, a network of • Trained more than 10,000 active learning that five regional partners and more practitioners throughout the • Developed professional than 400 peer mentor affiliates country, and on five continents. values critical thinking trainings for service-learning nationwide. and problem-solving. practitioners first held in 1989, Research shows that (the summer Teachers’ Institute), • Initiated Y-RISE, the first when service-learning is a precursor to the current Service-Learning and HIV/AIDS effectively annual Urban Institute for Service- Prevention Initiative in 2001. Learning — now in its third year. implemented, students gain in measures of academic achievement, citizenship, and character. Growingto Greatness™ 2006 The State of Service-Learning Project James C. Kielsmeier, Project Director Marybeth Neal, Research Director Alison Crossley, Research Assistant Copyright © 2006 National Youth Leadership Council™ All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Unless otherwise noted, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher, except for brief quotations or critical reviews. The views expressed in each article contained in Growing to Greatness are solely the views of the author or authors of each article and do not necessarily represent those of the National Youth Leadership Council or the other authors in the collection. Permission is granted for individual readers, parents, teachers, and group leaders to photocopy pages for personal, home, classroom, or group work. The “15 Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention” is copyright © 2005 National Dropout Prevention Center and is reprinted with permission. Cover photo courtesy of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Specially trained members of AmeriCorps*NCCC share a moment of team-building before heading out to abate forest fires. 1667 Snelling Ave. N., Suite D300 St. Paul, MN 55108 (651) 999-7357 www.nylc.org ii 2006 growing to greatness “Everybody Growingto can be great, Greatness™ because 2006 Editorial Board . iv Toward Statewide Documentation of everybody Acknowledgments . iv Positive Youth Contributions. 73 James C. Kielsmeier, Ph.D. Marybeth Neal, Ph.D. Letter from State Farm . v Learning that Lasts: Integrating and can serve.” Sustaining Service-Learning Through Kathy Payne Policy, Practice, and Capacity . 78 Service-Learning by the Numbers . vi Jennifer Piscatelli Introduction: From Both Sides of Equity in Service-Learning: Comparing the Hyphen . 1 Scope, Institutionalization, and Quality Marybeth Neal, Ph.D. across Low-Income Urban and Suburban —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s The Impact of Service-Learning on Schools . 82 February 4, 1968, Transitions to Adulthood . 4 Suzanne Pritzker and sermon at the Ebenezer Suzanne Martin, Ph.D., Marybeth Neal, Ph.D., Amanda Moore McBride, Ph.D. Baptist Church in Atlanta James C. Kielsmeier, Ph.D., and Alison Crossley State Profiles; Introduction. 93 Lessons from Research on Teaching and Rich Cairn, Marybeth Neal, Ph.D., Learning: Service-Learning as Effective and Alison Crossley Instruction . 25 Alaska . 94 Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D. Connecticut . 96 Measure What Matters, and No Child District of Columbia. 98 Will Be Left Behind . 33 Idaho. 100 Marty Duckenfield and Sam Drew, Ph.D. New Mexico . 102 Resources For Recovery: Young People, North Carolina . 104 Service, Learning, and Disasters . 40 North Dakota . 106 Teddy Gross and James C. Kielsmeier, Ph.D. South Dakota . 108 Youth Courts: An Alternative to Traditional Utah . 110 Juvenile Courts. 46 Virginia . 112 Sarah S. Pearson West Virginia. 114 Service-Learning: A Context for Wyoming. 116 Parent and Family Involvement . 53 U.S. Territory Profiles . 118 Marybeth Neal, Ph.D., and Cathryn Kaye Guam. 120 Native American Service-Learning . 59 Puerto Rico. 122 Calvin T. Dawson, McClellan Hall, Learn and Serve Funding . 124 and Lynn LaPointe Glossary. 125 A Framework for Future Research: The Community Impacts of Service- Resource Organizations . 126 Learning . 67 Lawrence N. Bailis, Ph.D., and Tony Ganger Contents Growingto Greatness™ 2006 Editorial Board 2005-2006 Larry Bailis Brandeis University Acknowledgments Shelley Billig RMC Research Nelda Brown National Service-Learning Partnership We take this opportunity to extend our heart- and the National Survey on Service-Learning Rich Cairn felt thanks to all of the individuals and and Transitioning to Adulthood. We are Cairn and Associates organizations who helped to make Growing to grateful for Suzanne Martin, Dana Markow, Amy Cohen Greatness 2006 a reality. Our editorial board and Erin Morris of Harris Interactive for all Corporation for National and members have been a steady source of sup- their work on the survey. Thank you also to Community Service port, and our authors have given generously of those who generously agreed to be interviewed Marty Duckenfield their time. Behind the scenes at the National for the state profile program examples. National Dropout Prevention Center Youth Leadership Council, the staff has NYLC research director Marybeth Neal and Joe Follman worked very hard to ensure that G2G is a use- research assistant Alison Crossley helped cut Florida State University ful and inspiring publication. the path through the forest, taking the theme Andy Furco In particular we’d like to thank Shelley for this year on service-learning and the inte- University of California – Billig, Rich Cairn, Teddy Gross, Barbara gration of young people into communities, Berkeley Holland, Andy Furco, Tony Ganger, Larry identifying topics for articles, and finding Tony Ganger Bailis, Sarah Pearson, Marty Duckenfield, and authors. In this process they were greatly YMCA of the USA Rob Shumer for their feedback throughout assisted by Maddy Wegner, communications Silvia Golombek the process. Gwen Willems, Paul Schroeder, director; Kristin Thiel, editor; and Caryn Youth Service America Ken Meter, Rob Shumer, and Pete Rode took Pernu, executive assistant. Teddy Gross on the challenging task of developing a Finally we would like to thank our funders, Common Cents statewide strategy for collecting data on posi- the State Farm Companies Foundation, Joe Herrity tive youth contributions, which is introduced through Kathy Payne and Carl Nelson. Their Iowa Department of Education in this issue. Carol Thompson and Paula support and encouragement goes beyond Don Hill Beugen of the Minnesota Association for the simply financial, and helps us to renew Youth Service California Volunteer Administration helped develop and and strengthen our commitment to young Kathy Hill distribute a survey used in the statewide data people and to nurturing their potential to Ohio State University collection. Oliver Moles contributed his grow to greatness. Barbara Holland expertise in the area of parental involvement National Service-Learning research. Elson Nash, Calvin Dawson, and Clearinghouse Kimberly Spring of the Corporation for Michelle Kamenov National and Community Service provided Minnesota Department of useful data and feedback on various aspects of Education G2G including the statewide model on positive James C. Kielsmeier, Ph.D. Sarah S. Pearson youth contributions, the article on service- G2G Project Director American Youth Policy Forum learning in Native American communities, President and CEO, NYLC Rob Shumer University
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