What is the difference between community service and service-learning? How do I give each of my students an opportunity to experience authentic, integrated, content-driven projects that meet real community needs?
If these are questions you and your colleagues are grappling with then come along as we explore the ways two teachers, in two very different settings, breathe life into their practice and ignite their students' potential in service of others.
We'll visit a humanities class as they interview recent immigrants and attempt to answer the question, "What is the American dream?" Then we'll see how the same teacher requires that her students' senior projects have a clear and direct focus on social action, and how students are stepping up to the challenge.
Travel with us to the Olympic Peninsula where we discover one teacher's effort to make science a community-connected experience using the wetlands, streams, and forests along the inland waters of Washington State as the classroom. See how students collect sophisticated data to help their community partners restore wetlands, monitor water quality, and raise public awareness regarding the rich and fragile environment in their backyard.
See Community-based Learning in Action!
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