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Download full textMelaville, Atelia; Berg, Amy C.; Blank, Martin J. – Coalition for Community Schools, 2006
Community schools foster a learning environment that extends far beyond the classroom walls. Students learn and problem solve in the context of their lives and communities. Community schools nurture this natural engagement. Because of the deep and purposeful connections between schools and communities, the curriculum is influenced and enhanced,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Community Schools, Citizenship Education, School Community Relationship
Corporation for National Service, Washington, DC. – 1999
This handbook provides AmeriCorps Promise Fellows with important information about their participation in this special initiative of AmeriCorps and America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth. Section 1 is an overview of AmeriCorps, including its mission, the mission of America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth, and the role of AmeriCorps Promise…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Child Welfare, Community Problems
Ball, Kevin; Goodburn, Amy M. – Composition Studies, 2000
Examines how service learning is being conceptualized by compositionists, particularly through the trope of community, to consider how it functions as a practice and topic in the discipline. Considers how educators position themselves and their students as practitioners of service-learning. Considers what the relationship of that learning to the…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Direct linkOnline Submission, 2005
This resource provides schools and jurisdictions with a sample framework and strategies for developing and/or supporting a culture of character and citizenship. The framework encourages individual schools to assess and put action plans in place to improve their cultures. It also looks at how character and citizenship education can be supported by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, School Culture, Educational Environment
Education Commission of the States, 2005
This "Learning That Lasts Field Guide" is intended to trigger discussion about ways to integrate and sustain high-quality service-learning, as well as to provide a clearer path to finding and employing the information in the Education Commission of the States' (ECS) 2002 publication "Learning That Lasts: How Service-Learning Can Become an Integral…
Descriptors: Service Learning, School Community Relationship, Educational Policy, Partnerships in Education
ACTION, Washington, DC. National Student Volunteer Program. – 1977
Designed for coordinators of student volunteer programs (experiential learning through community service), this manual provides information on some of the basic research approaches and tools which can be used to analyze a program's activities and effectiveness. The major areas discussed include the following: the reasons for and resources…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Case Studies, Community Services, Data Analysis
