Community Service Learning Centers Network

What is Community Service-Learning?  Community service-learning involves individuals in organized community service that addresses local issues, while developing academic skills, sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community.

Service-learning works!  Research shows that high-quality service-learning programs benefit students, schools, and communities.

By making community service-learning a core pedagogy within the curriculum and by linking classrooms and community in service-learning projects, community service learning helps create and support environments where “everyone is learning, everyone is serving. Service-learning helps create people who are smarter, more caring and more engaged in civic life – characteristics that are essential to meet tomorrow’s challenges.

We can help you connect with experienced service-learning practitioners and resources. Our statewide network of service-learning centers can provide direction and support for educators, students, parents, and community organizations interested in developing or enhancing service-learning programs and projects in your community.

Ask us about training opportunities, project ideas and sample curricula (aligned to New Mexico State Educational Standards and Benchmarks), peer support, and news about events and funding opportunities.

Are you involved in community-service learning partnerships and programs? Would you like to be? Are you interested in learning more about community service-learning?

Join our ever-growing NM Network of Community Service-Learning Practitioners.

Network members share information about: New and on-going community service-learning programs in New Mexico, in the nation and around the world; Service-Learning events, gatherings, training, and conferences; Funding opportunities; Latest research on effective service-learning practices and outcomes.

What is Community Service-Learning? Community service-learning involves individuals in organized community service that addresses local issues, while developing academic skills, sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community.

Service-learning works! Research shows that high-quality service-learning programs benefit students, schools, and communities.

Resources:

Centers for Service Learning 2-pager (84kb)

 

Resources Added December, 2010 (Products from Annual Summit Meeting):

Youth Summit Presentation, 12/02/2010 (221 kb)

Service Learning Network Meeting Attendees (53 kb)

Service Learning Blueprint (95 kb)

Service Learning Action Sheet (42 kb)

Service Learning Assets-Barriers (33 kb)

Toolkit: Elements of Service Learning (176 kb)

Toolkit: Service Learning Project Ideas (107 kb)

Toolkit: Service Learning Programs in NM Schools (73 kb)

Toolkit:  Service Learning Rubric (207 kb)

Toolkit:  Service Learning Resources (61 kb)

PED Redesign of NM High School Education System (1 Mb)

Senate Bill 460 (3 Mb)

Senate Bill 561 (5 Mb)

 

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Want to know more about our networks?  Click on the links here to find out descriptive information about our networks, including infrastructure, capacity-building and advocacy efforts.

For more information on the Community Service Learning Centers, please contact:

Debra Saine, Director of Service Learning
dsaine@nmforumforyouth.org
(505) 821-3574, ext. 114
(505) 242-2776 (FAX)