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Presenters: Anthony Le (National Youth Leadership Council), and Kaleb Sy and Rafiel Castillo (NYLC Youth Advisory Council Members)

Looking for a way to solve community problems that you care about? Join 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.

Introduction to Facilitating Service-Learning

Presenter: Julie Rogers Bascom (National Youth Leadership Council)

Learn 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.

Social Justice through Building Reciprocal Community Partnerships

Presenter: Tiwanna Merritt (International American School of Johannesburg)

This 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.

Take a 15 minute break between sessions.

Presenters: Rosemary Pezzutto (Camp Fire Patuxent Area), and Tiwana Merritt, Lua Kurtenbach, and Kate Hiewon Ahn (International American School of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Join the International Service-Learning Forum General Assembly to hear from educators and students on how they are using service-learning as a strategy to address the on-going challenges created by the pandemic from learning loss & education equity to mental health & trauma?

Take an hour break between sessions.

Our Motivations Matter: Self-Assessing Service-Learning Community Engagement

Presenters: Julie Rogers Bascom (National Youth Leadership Council) and Zahra Ali (Ausburg University)

Interest in strategies for working in communities – both within and outside schools – has increased. Concern remains about how and where to begin service-learning experiences, as well as how to work across cultures, towns, or countries. To 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. NOTE: Please join using a computer (not phone) in order to access the tools.

Take a 15 minute break between sessions.

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