How do I get additional information on service-learning?

These sites may be helpful on how to become an advocate for service-learning or how to introduce service-learning to your community.

National Service-Learning Partnership Advocacy Brief

http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/site/PageServer
A monthly update on ways you can act as an advocate for service-learning.

The National Service-Learning Partnership

www.service-learningpartnership.org

The National Service-Learning Partnership (NSLP) was founded in 2001. It is a national network of members dedicated to advancing service-learning as a core part of every young person’s education. Service-learning is a teaching method that engages young people in solving problems within their schools and communities as part of their academic studies taking the students from passive recipients to active participants in their education and community.

NSLP has 10,000 members in all 50 states. Members are young people, teachers, parents, administrators, policymakers, education leaders, community partners, businesspeople, and researchers.

The National Commission on Service-Learning

www.servicelearningcommission.org

The Commission was established to bring a new level of public commitment to service-learning by: (1) developing recommendations and an action plan to make service-learning available to all K-12 students and (2) encouraging adoption of service-learning among education leaders and policy makers. The commission released a report entitled "Learning In Deed: The Power of Service-Learning for American Schools" that synthesizes the state-of-the-art, summarizes the Commission's recommendations and provides the basis for an intense period of outreach.

Learning In Deed (LID) is a four-year, national initiative which aims to make service-learning -- a teaching strategy that integrates service to others with classroom instruction -- part of every K-12 student's experience. The website has up-to-date news on the work of the National Commission on Service-Learning and membership information for the National Service-Learning Partnership. The site also includes service-learning tools and resources, profiles of high-quality programs, the latest research from the field, and information on current federal, state and local legislation supporting service-learning.

National Youth Leadership Council

www.NYLC.org  http://www.nylc.org/

The National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) has been a leading advocate of service-learning since 1983.  A Minnesota-based, national non-profit organization, NYLC works in partnership with young people, educators, administrators and community leaders to integrate curriculum based service-learning practices into elementary, secondary and post secondary schools.

The State Farm Companies Foundation provides funding to NYLC and is a presenting sponsor for the National Service-Learning Conference. More information is available at the NYLC Web site at nylc.org.