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ABOUT YOUTH SERVICE
K-12 Service Learning Standards for Quality Practice
- Meaningful Service: Service learning actively engages participants in meaningful and personally relevant service activities.
- Link to Curriculum: Service learning is intentionally used as an instructional strategy to meet learning goals and/or content standards.
- Reflection: 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.
- Diversity: Service learning promotes understanding of diversity and mutual respect among all participants.
- Youth Voice: Service learning provides youth with a strong voice in planning, implementing, and evaluating Service learning experiences with guidance from adults.
- Partnerships: Service learning partnerships are collaborative, mutually beneficial, and address community needs.
- Progress Monitoring: 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.
- Duration and Intensity: Service learning has sufficient duration and intensity to address community needs and meet specified outcomes.
For more information, visit the National Youth Leadership Council.
What is Service Learning?
Benefits of Service Learning
Principles of Effective Practice for K-12 Service Learning
Creating a Service Learning Project
Additional Resources