Are you in the Zone?

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Are you in the Zone?
Academic Service Learning Day 1 Teacher Training
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What is all about?

• Our grant will address issue of urban decay
  and the need to support green infrastructure as a
  way to protect environment and support economic
  revitalization.

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Support
Kent ISD We Lead Learning
Wittenbach/Wege Agri-science Environmental
Education Center
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Whats in it for You?

• Professional Development
• Academic Service Learning (PBL)
• Sustainability
• Technical Assistance
• Academic Service Learning
• Curriculum Crafter
• Partnerships with Businesses and Organizations
• College Access Network (students and parents)
• Media Messages
• National Recognition
• Funding

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Introduction to Service-Learning
Teaching in the ZONE!
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Citizenship Activity
What Makes aGood Citizen?
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Citizenship Activity1. Think of someone you
consider to be a good citizen2. What makes
them a good citizen?3. What are their
attributes? (behaviors, knowledge,
attitudes)4. Report out Your name Who your
citizen is why you chose them What are his/her
attributes
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Citizenship Activity
What Makes aGood Global Citizen?
Knowledge Skills Values Beliefs Behaviors
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What is Service Learning?
Service Learning is a teaching method that
combines meaningful service to the community with
classroom learning.
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What is Service Learning?

• Service learning can be defined as a teaching
  method where classroom learning is deepened
  through service to others in a process that
  provides structured time for reflection on the
  service experience and demonstration of the
  skills and knowledge acquired.
• Cathryn Berger Kaye

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• How is Service Learning
• Different from
• Community Service
• Volunteerism

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Community Service

• School curriculum not emphasized
• No reflection
• Outside the school day
• Off school campus
• Quantified number of required hours
• Negative connotation

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Volunteerism

• School curriculum not emphasized
• People choose
• Perform a service
• Without pay

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Service Learning

• Instructional strategy
• Integrated with curriculum
• Provides service that meets a genuine need
• Interprets experiences
• Takes place on/off school campus

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Service Learning

• Beyond the academics, service learning is a way
  to help our students grow socially and as
  individuals.

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Service Learning

• Benefits to Students
• Increases academic and cognitive development
• Enriches curriculum
• Reinforces learning through practical and
  meaningful applications
• Puts character education into action

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Service Learning

• Benefits to Students
• Increases career awareness and job skills
  identification
• Improves sense of teamwork, mutual achievement
  and leadership skills
• Enhances social development
• Fosters personal growth
• Improves civic-mindedness

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Service Learning

• Benefits to Teachers
• Engages students in their learning process
• Creates a motivated, involved student
• Reduces behavioral disruptions
• Provides collaboration and research opportunities
• Can increase classroom resources

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Service Learning

• Benefits to Community
• Gives direct aid to community organizations
• Helps students become invested in their community
• Helps community members value youth as
  contributors

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Math Games/Senior Neighbors

• Elementary
• Students learned to play math games to improve
  their skills. They taught the games to Senior
  friends and met once a month to play together.

Senior Neighbors
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Veteran History Interviews

• Honors Language Arts
• Middle School
• After reading literature about wartime
  experiences, students contacted, gathered data,
  researched, interviewed and videotaped local
  veteran histories.

Lowell Area Historical Museum
Library of Congress
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Water Quality at Murray Lake

• Natural Resources
• High School
• Test water and soil around Murray Lake.
  Provide association with results and
  recommendations.

Murray Lake Association
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Activity
What Does Service Mean to You?
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What are the Different Types of Service?
Direct Indirect Advocacy
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Direct Service
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Indirect Service
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Advocacy
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Project Planning Service Learning Projects
Basic Stages
Preparation Action Reflection Demonstration of
knowledge Evaluation
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Preparation

• Identify need
• Check prior knowledge
• Plan for service
• Integrate academics

Effective Practice Duration and Intensity
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Action

• Service is provided
• Variable duration
• Ongoing reflection

Effective Practice Duration and Intensity
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Reflection

• Before, during,
• after service
• Variety of formats

Effective Practice Duration and Intensity
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Demonstration

• Students provide evidence of their learning and
  service

Effective Practice Duration and Intensity
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The Dock

• Kelloggsville Middle School
• Marcia Cisler
• and
• Brian Moore

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K12 Standards for Quality Practice (developed by
NYLC / RMC Research)

• Meaningful Service
• Curriculum Integration
• Duration
• Diversity
• Reflection
• Youth Voice
• Reciprocal Partnerships
• Process Monitoring

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Meaningful Service

• Meaningful Service exists when a real need is
  identified and met through students efforts.
• Recipients benefit in a tangible way because a
  need has been met.
• Students benefit through increased learning,
  awareness, and empathy.

Effective Practice Meaningful Service
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Activity
Community Needs Assessment
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English Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Social Studies
Issue
Fine Arts
Physical Education
Languages
Career Pathways
Character Education
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Quadrant Activity
HIGH SERVICE The project meets an important need
and is well organized
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II
UNRELATED LEARNING Project has no clear, ongoing
connection to the goals of the classroom
INTEGRATED LEARNING Project is clearly integrated
with the goals of the classroom
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LOW SERVICE The project does not meet a real need
and/or is not well planned
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Reciprocal Partnerships

• A reciprocal partnership occurs when one seeks
  the needs of their community and then finds the
  resources necessary to meet that need
• In turn the community resource agency might also
  call upon its community to act as a partner

Effective Practice Reciprocal Partnerships
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What Exactly Does This Mean?

• Having reciprocal partnerships with the
• Community means that service learning
• students have a relationship with community
• organizations or members, which enable both
• to benefit.
• The use of reciprocal partners in service
  learning
• brings participants together toward a mutual
• goal.

Effective Practice Reciprocal Partnerships
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What is Diversity?
Diversity is a form of individualism, unique
characteristics, beliefs and values. Diversit
y the art of thinking independently
together. - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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Types of Diversity

• Cultures
• Ethnic groups
• Languages
• Generational diversity
• Physical features
• Socio-economic backgrounds
• Opinions
• Religious Beliefs
• Sexuality
• Gender Identity
• Neurology

Effective Practice Diversity
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How Does SL Promote Diversity?

• Reflecting Common Cultural Values
• Emphasizing Each Students Capacities
• Building Capacity for Action
• Enlarging Perspectives
• Reinforcing Positive Identity
• Promoting Humane Values
• Engaging Learners
• Performing Valuable Service

Effective Practice Diversity
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What is Youth Voice?

• Youth voice refers to the ideas, opinions,
  involvement, and initiatives of people considered
  to be young.
• In the context of service learning, youth voice
  refers to the input young people provide in
  developing and implementing projects, plans, and
  policies to guide service learning efforts.

Effective Practice Youth Voice
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Why Youth Voice?

• When youth are engaged in communities, schools,
  and organizations, young people grow more
  capable, effective, and powerful than we have
  ever imagined
• Adults grow more energized, creative, and
  insightful
• Sharing responsibility of community building
  lifts the weight of working alone
• When young people help make decisions, programs
  are more likely to meet their needs
• When young people are part of the process they
  feel ownership, mobilize others and become
  powerful role models

Effective Practice Youth Voice
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Digging Deeper

• Activity The Five Whys

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Reflection Defined
The use of creative and critical thinking skills
to help prepare for, succeed in, and to learn
from the service experience, and to examine the
larger picture and context in which the service
occurs. Toole, J. Toole, P.
Effective Practice Reflection
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Reflection Defined
Reflection is a vital and ongoing
process in service learning that
integrates learning and experience
with personal growth and awareness. Using
reflection, students consider how the experience,
knowledge, and skills they are acquiring relate
to their own lives and their communities.

- Cathy Berger Kaye
Effective Practice Reflection
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Purposes for Reflection in Service Learning
Personal growth self-awareness
Understand relevant community issues, problems,
and solutions
Connect curriculum to service experience
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Easy Reflection Methods

• Reflection Journals
• Writing Prompts
• Parking Lot on the wall
• Yarn Toss
• Drawing
• Two Minute Survey
• Question Jar
• Picture Card Reflection

Effective Practice Reflection
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Process Monitoring
Process Monitoring refers to a process for
gathering information to determine the quality of
the programming being used and the extent to
which there is growth toward goal attainment.
Effective Practice Process Monitoring
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Why Process Monitoring?

• Accountability
• Worthwhile academic/social outcomes
• Capacity building
• High quality
• Guide improvement process

Effective Practice Process Monitoring
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What Should You Be Monitoring?

• Student progress

Effective Practice Process Monitoring
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What Should You Be Monitoring?

• Student progress
• Academic understanding
• Social development

Effective Practice Process Monitoring
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What Should You Be Monitoring?

• Student progress
• Individual Projects

Effective Practice Process Monitoring
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What Should You Be Monitoring?

• Student progress
• Individual Projects
• Community Partnerships

Effective Practice Process Monitoring
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What Should You Be Monitoring?

• Student progress
• Individual Projects
• Community Partnerships
• Were the partners needs met
• Did they add to the learning
• Did both work well together

Effective Practice Process Monitoring
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What Should You Be Monitoring?

• Student progress
• Individual Projects
• Community Partnerships
• Overall Service-Learning Program

Effective Practice Process Monitoring
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Activity

• Putting It All Together
• Developing a Service Learning Project

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Sustainability

• Meggan Johnson
• Director
• Wittenbach/Wege Agriscience and Environmental
  Education Center

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What is Sustainability?

• Sustainability is based on a simple principle
  Everything that we need for our survival and
  well-being depends, either directly or
  indirectly, on our natural environment. 
• Sustainability creates and maintains the
  conditions under which humans and nature can
  exist in productive harmony, that permit
  fulfilling the social, economic and other
  requirements of present and future generations.
• Sustainability is important in making sure that
  we have, and will continue to have,  the water,
  materials and resources to protect human health
  and our environment.
• United States Environmental Protection Agency

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Three Arms of Sustainability
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Nested Sustainability
Suggests that both our economy and society are
constrained by environmental limits. Is this
true?
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Sustainable Development
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Sustainable Development
The environment is where we live and
development is what we all do in attempting to
improve our lot within that abode. The two are
inseparable. - World Commission on Environment
and Development Diverse local to global efforts
to imagine and enact a positive vision of a world
in which basic human needs are met without
destroying or irrevocably degrading the natural
systems on which we all depend. - Robert W.
Kates, Brown University
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Sustainability is a Cultural Value of our Region

• In 2007, the United Nations recognized the City
  of Grand Rapids as a Center of Expertise in
  Sustainability
• In 2008, Fast Company called the City of Grand
  Rapids, Americas Greenest City.
• In 2010, Grand Rapids has been named the most
  sustainable midsize city in the U.S. by the U.S.
  Chamber of Commerce Civic Leadership Center and
  Siemens Corp.
• The U.S. Green Building Council estimates that
  metro Grand Rapids now has more square footage
  per capita under LEED certification than any
  other city in the United States. (LEED
  Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
• Sustainable Grand Rapids Website
• http//mygrcity.us/departments/enterpriseservices/
  serviceareas/es/public/Pages/default.aspx

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Sustainable Development
The environment is where we live and
development is what we all do in attempting to
improve our lot within that abode. The two are
inseparable. - World Commission on Environment
and Development Diverse local to global efforts
to imagine and enact a positive vision of a world
in which basic human needs are met without
destroying or irrevocably degrading the natural
systems on which we all depend. - Robert W.
Kates, Brown University
We do not inherit the earth from our fathers we
borrow it from our children. -David Brower,
founder of the Earth Island Institute
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What Does This Mean?
It means that we must think differently about
what we value. How do our actions, or lack of
action, affect ourselves, our community, our
region and our world.
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Quotable
You can never have an impact on society if you
have not changed yourself. - Nelson
Mandela It's not too late at all. You just
don't yet know what you are capable of.  -
Mahatma Gandhi Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I
may remember. But involve me and I'll
understand.  - Chinese Proverb Do not try
to...teach a great many things. Awaken people's
curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not
overload them. Put there just a spark. If there
is some good inflammable stuff, it will surely
set fire.  - Anatole France
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Quotable
Through interpretation, understanding through
understanding, appreciation through
appreciation, protection. - Freeman Tilden
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Snowball Activity

• On a blank white sheet of paper, write
• 3 Things you learned today
• 2 Questions you have
• 1 Idea you can use immediately
• Crumple the paper to create a snowball
• Throw snowball into the center of circle
• Pick up a snowball and read aloud

Effective Practice Reflection
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Questions Evaluation
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