Making Local History Matter
nylcstaff2023-08-30T12:08:39-05:00A project completed by Tanzanian students served as the catalyst for a project that teaches students about their own village.
Digital Health: A Handbook for (Online) Service-Learning in Afterschool
nylcstaff2023-08-30T12:08:39-05:00Since 2020, virtual service experiences have become increasingly popular. This handbook teaches educators how to move service-learning to a virtual space, while still engaging with students' interests.
Intro To Facilitating Service-Learning
nylcstaff2023-06-28T10:25:04-05:00Learn how service-learning can help you meet content goals as well as address social emotional learning using a four stage framework, investigation cycle and research based standards of quality service-learning practice that ensure young people will grow as leaders and as active citizens. Be ready to take a step to weaving service-learning into your unit plans!
Introduction to Service-Learning for Young People
nylcstaff2023-06-28T10:20:59-05:00Join us for this youth-led, youth-centered introduction to Service-Learning! After this session, you will have a fully-stocked toolkit for addressing genuine community needs.
Our Motivations Matter: Self-Assessing Service-Learning Community Engagement
nylcstaff2023-06-28T10:13:02-05:00To be effective facilitators, leaders must not only be informed about community assets and needs but also be aware of their own motivations and assumptions. In this session, participants will use NYLC’s “Equity in Service-Learning: Self-Assessment Tools for Community Engagement" to reflect on their own programmatic mindsets and intentions. Who is this for? Though these resources were designed for US-based service-learning practitioners, we invite any educators and out-of-school time professionals with some prior experience in community service and/or service-learning to explore how these tools might meet their needs.
Social Justice through Building Reciprocal Community Partnerships
nylcstaff2023-06-28T10:03:07-05:00This interactive workshop will ask participants to reflect and respond to questions related to service-learning such as: How can we best work towards supporting students to create service projects that are safe, inclusive, equitable, and just models of community engagement at all levels? How do we recognize our own limitations and develop supportive networks? This workshop is for anyone who works with local communities via service, advocacy, social and/or environmental justice, or those looking to learn more about service-learning and reciprocal community partnerships.
Service-Learning in Career and Technical Education Report-Louisiana Satellite Center Profile
nylcstaff2023-05-26T08:19:32-05:00Born out of a desire to prepare young people for careers that are both local and also future-oriented, the Satellite Center was built in 2005, and opened after a six-month delay post-Hurricane Katrina. Located in Luling, Louisiana, the school embodies more than state-of-the-art technology. It is dedicated to “Building a Better You” – as its tagline reads, for high school juniors and seniors. As such, teachers are “facilitators” and students are “team members”, reflecting an ethos of collaboration and youth leadership designed to support graduates as they apply their skills and passions to community needs.
Developing Community Partners
ameuersnylcorg2023-03-31T09:53:53-05:00Use this worksheet to understand how to develop community partners.
Partnering with Low-Income Communities: Strategies for Community Organizations and Businesses
ameuersnylcorg2023-03-28T15:19:13-05:00This worksheet will help to determine if you are building beneficial relationships for both the organization and community.
Determining the Need: I’m Supposed To Do What???
ameuersnylcorg2023-03-28T15:19:09-05:00Simple and effective approaches to identifying a challenge that needs a service activity to help address it!