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These standards represent service-learning best practices to ensure high-quality service-learning experiences that engage and empower youth to create positive change while developing academic and civic knowledge and skills.
Service-learning actively engages participants in meaningful and personally relevant service activities.
Service-learning is intentionally used as an instructional strategy to meet learning goals and/or content standards.
Service-learning has sufficient duration and intensity to address community needs and meet specified outcomes.
Service-learning incorporates multiple challenging reflection activities that are ongoing and that prompt deep thinking and analysis about oneself and one’s relationship to society.
Service-learning provides youth with a strong voice in planning, implementing, and evaluating service-learning experiences with guidance from adults.
Service-learning engages participants in an ongoing process to assess the quality of implementation and progress toward meeting specified goals, and uses results for improvement and sustainability.
Service-learning promotes understanding of diversity and mutual respect among all participants.
Service-learning partnerships are collaborative, mutually beneficial, and address community needs.
When you understand and utilize the standards in your practice, you can create a transformative experience for your students, their communities…
They are tools to maximize the transformative potential of service-learning, by fostering personal growth, academic development, community engagement…
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