G R O W I N G T O G R E A T N E S S 2 0 0 4 T H E S A O F R V I C - L N G P J TM Serve. Learn. Change the World.™ The National Youth Leadership Council is a Along with the multi-year G2G initiative, NYLC I Developed “Essential Elements of Service- locally-based national and international nonprofit is engaged in research-based development of Learning,” establishing standards for service- organization, advancing a mission of “building vital, service-learning approaches to AIDS. learning. just communities with young people through serv- I Presented lead testimony for National ice-learning.” NYLC programs reach constituents Global Vision, Local Roots Commission on Service-Learning. from all 50 states and more than 20 countries. Our vision is rooted in programs and policies I Co-convener, with Points of Light Foundation, originated by NYLC in Minnesota: of 2000 National Youth Summit. From its beginning more than 20 years ago, I NYLC operations have been guided by a Convened first in nation statewide service I Edited special editions on service-learning for initiative (1984). three-fold vision: Phi Delta Kappan magazine (1991, 2000). I Staffed, chaired, and served as member of state I Lead co-sponsor, with Youth Service America, For young people – A belief that all young people, service commissions (1985-1992) (1995-2001). of National and Global Youth Service Day. from elementary school ages to adulthood, are I Convened and helped convene state service needed as providers of service and leadership to conferences (starting in 1985). Current Operations their communities, nation, and world. I Advanced state youth development and service I Publications, training materials, and workshops. legislation, and funding (1987, 1989). For learning – That people learn in a variety I National network of 400 peer consultants led I of ways, and that service-learning is an effective Organized statewide campus service initiatives, by five regional centers supported by State teaching and learning philosophy and method- developed related legislation (1988-1993). Farm Insurance. ology, yielding measurable achievement, civic I New service-learning teacher certification and Leadership engagement, and personal/social/spiritual online courses. I Convene National Service-Learning development outcomes. I Annual weeklong summer youth leadership Conferences (1989-ongoing). model in operation (since 1983). For community – For societies to be democratic, I Influenced federal service-learning legislation I Active Youth Advisory Council. all members — including every race, gender, faith, in 1990 and 1993 through congressional and age — must understand and practice the work testimony, including authoring language for I National Service-Learning Conference (2,700 of democracy: service, advocacy, and political National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. people representing every state and 20 countries attended in 2003). engagement. Like the conversion of wind power I Launched first national service-learning project to electricity, NYLC’s wind generator logo is funded by W.K.Kellogg Foundation (1990). I Lead sponsor, with State Farm Insurance, of a metaphor for directing the strengths of young “Project Ignition,” a national youth safe-driving I Participant in White House conferences on people in building their communities. media campaign and contest for high schools. philanthropy and adolescent development. I HIV/AIDS Initiative funded by Ittleson and Action, Reflection: Praxis I Presented on service-learning to audiences in W.K. Kellogg Foundations. All NYLC operations and materials are stringently 14 countries. evaluated and grounded in research. One-third of I Lead provider of training and technical all full-time NYLC staff hold advanced degrees, assistance for Corporation for National and including three senior staff who have Ph.D.s. Community Service (1993-2001). Contents Acknowledgements . 2 Iowa . 50 “[E]verybody James C. Kielsmeier, Ph.D. Maine . 52 Letter from State Farm . 3 Maryland . 54 can be great, Kathy Payne Massachusetts . 56 Michigan . 58 Foreword . 4 Mississippi . 60 because James C. Kielsmeier, Ph.D. Montana . 62 Preliminary Findings Community New Jersey . 63 everybody can Service and Service-Learning New York . 64 in Public Schools . 6 Rhode Island . 66 James C. Kielsmeier, Ph.D., Peter C. Scales, Ph.D., South Carolina . 68 serve.” Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, and Marybeth Neal, Ph.D. Texas . 70 Heads, Hearts, Hands: The Research on Washington . 72 K-12 Service-Learning . 12 Wisconsin . 74 Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D. Profiles of Community-Based Service to Others: A ‘Gateway Asset‘ Service-Learning in the United States . 76 City Year . 77 –DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S for School Success and Common Cents . 78 FEBRUARY 4, 1968, SERMON Healthy Development . 26 Communities in Schools . 79 AT THE EBENEZOR BAPTIST CHURCH Peter C. Scales, Ph.D. and Constitutional Rights Foundation . 80 IN ATLANTA. WASHINGTON Eugene C. Roehlkepartain Do Something . 81 AMES ED ESTAMENT OF OPE Learn and Serve America: Reflecting J M., . A T H : Earth Force . 82 THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS AND SPEECHES on the Past, Focusing on the Future . 33 OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. KIDS Consortium . 83 AN RANCISCO ARPER OLLINS Amy B. Cohen, Robert Bhaerman, Elson Nash, (S F : H C , 1991), 265-66. Lions-Quest . 84 and Kimberly Spring National Indian Youth Leadership Project . 85 Service-Learning Policy . 39 YMCA of the U.S.A. 86 Jennifer Piscatelli Youth Service America . 87 State Profiles . 41 Yo uth Volunteer Corps of America . 88 California . 42 Glossary . 89 Colorado . 44 Essential Elements . 90 Florida . 46 Hawaii . 48 Resources/Organizations . 92 Copyright © 2004 by the National Youth Leadership Council.All rights reserved. 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G2G™ Editorial Board 2003-2004 Larry Bailis Brandeis University Acknowledgements Shelley Billig RMC Research Nelda Brown SEANet e would like to thank all of those individuals and The national survey was a collaborative effort with our Sharon Buddin organizations that made this report possible. editorial board and carried out with the ongoing guidance Ridge View High School/NASSP W of Peter Scales and Gene Roehlkepartain of Search Columbia,W SC Amy Cohen The idea of engaged young people building better commu- Institute, and Larry Bailis and Alan Melchior of Brandeis Corporation for National & nities while learning was a great fit for Kathy Havens Payne University.We are most grateful to Gerald N.Tirozzi, Community Service at State Farm.A former teacher and school board member, Executive Director of the National Association of Kate Cumbo Colorado Department Kathy knows what works in the classroom and in the larger Secondary School Principals, and Rocco Marario, Director of Education world of young people. She and colleagues have been of Student Activities, for writing a letter of endorsement Marty Duckenfield terrific partners in the G2G Report and in the several encouraging principals to complete the survey.We’d also National Dropout other service-learning initiatives State Farm sponsors like to thank Ellen Tenenbaum of Westat for her expert Prevention Center with NYLC. shepherding of the national survey and her stalwart corps Joe Follman Florida State University of interviewers, which undoubtedly contributed to our Andy Furco The articles by Shelley Billig of RMC Research, Peter remarkable response rate of 91 percent. University of California – Scales and Gene Roehlkepartain of Search Institute,Amy Berkeley Cohen of the Corporation for National and Community Within the National Youth Leadership Council, research Tony Ganger YMCA of the USA Service, and Jennifer Piscatelli of the Education Commis- director Dr. Marybeth Neal helped design and ably imple- Silvia Golombek sion of the States provide descriptions of service-learning’s mented the project. Megan McKinnon, project coordinator, Youth Service America impacts on youths, their communities, and state and efficiently took the larger vision and translated it into the Barbara Gomez national policy. reality of deadlines, contracts, and editing final versions. AED Maddy Wegner, director of publications, also contributed Teddy Gross Common Cents New York We’d like to thank Rich Cairn of Cairn and Associates, and her editorial skills to this project, for which we are Joe Herrity Nelda Brown, executive director of SEANet, for their work very grateful. Iowa Department of Education in creating state profiles.And of course, we’d like to thank Don Hill the staff at the state educational agencies and the other Lastly, I’d like to thank our editorial board for their encour- Youth Service California Barbara Holland organizations who were interviewed for the state profiles; agement and support of this project.As we look forward in National Service-Learning their help was invaluable in reviewing the profiles for this multi-year project, we hope to build on this sense of Clearinghouse publication.These profiles help greatly to understand the community, uniting around our common concern to Michelle Kamenov “story” of service-learning’s development for each state and document the scope, scale, and quality of service-learning Minnesota Department of Education illustrate examples of service-learning programming. with care and rigor. Dick Kraft Professor Emeritus Larry Bailis,Alan Melchior and Thomas Shields of Brandeis University of Colorado – Boulder University collected data and wrote profiles for the national Alan Melchior Brandeis University community-based organizations.These profiles help remind Sarah Pearson us of service-learning in the larger picture and the varieties American Youth Policy Forum of ways that learning can take place with or without a James C. Kielsmeier, Ph.D. Stan Potts connection to formal schooling.We would like to President/CEO, NYLC University of Wisconsin – River Falls thank the representatives of the profiled organizations Project Director, G2G Rob Shumer who gave so generously of their time to provide data to St. Paul,2 MNG2G our researchers.