Service Learning a Strategy for Improving Education GOALS 2000: Educate America Act and Service Learning

GOALS 2000: Educate America Act calls for the development of comprehensive state education strategies that result in the attainment of the national education goals and lifelong learning systems. Under GOALS 2000 programs previously viewed as separate and categorical, but which address specific phases in youth education and development, must now be viewed as part of a system with many reinforcing and essential elements. Under GOALS 2000 diverse programs dealing with early childhood, elementary, middle and secondary education as well as education for employment preparation must begin to function as part of a coordinated continuum of positive development and preparation for life

State Plan Framework for a Statewide Service Learning Peer Consultant Network

Service learning is a form of experiential education that engages students in work solving real-life problems and meeting needs in the school or greater community as part of the academic curriculum. Service-teaming as pedagogy, philosophy, and process brings together important elements necessity for educational and social reform

Service Learning and Related Activities in the Improving America\u27s Schools Act of 1994

Service learning is a strategy for teaching and learning through which students can achieve high academic standards. Service learning is included as a strategy in the Improving America\u27s Schools Act. Below is a summary of the Titles in which service learning and related strategies appear

Connecting School-to-Work and Service-Learning

Both service-learning and School-to-Work are forms of experiential education that extend student learning into the community, and the work sites become centers of learning. Service learning and school-to-work programs engage students in learning experiences that help develop organizational, team, and problem-solving skills as well as the competencies and foundation skills identified as important for employability and responsible citizenship

Community Service Learning by Doing: A Statement of the Council of Chief State School Officers

School-based community programs provide activities coordinated through the schools in which students, kindergarten through high school levels, perform needed services in their communities as part of their learning experience

Ohio Union Council Meeting Minutes: May 31, 2012

Minutes of the Ohio Union Council meeting held on May 31, 2012. Topics of discussion included Director's Reports, Subcommittee Reports, Ohio Union Activities Board (OUAB) Update, New Business, Future Meetings, and announcements

Ohio Union Council Meeting Minutes: August 29, 2013

Minutes of the Ohio Union Council meeting held on August 29, 2013. Topics of discussion included the Ohio Union Acitivites Board (OUAB) Updates, an Overview of the Ohio Union Council, Elections, Director's Reports, Subcommittee Responsibilities and Reports, Future Meetings and Topics, Subcommittee Breakouts, and announcements