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Administrator's Guide to Service-Learning

A former principal provides you with a wealth of suggestions for meeting the nuts and bolts challenges of service-learning. (1997)

Athletes Off the Field: A Model for Team Building and Leadership Development Through Service-Learning

Many school sports teams do community service. Turn this into service-learning and develop your students' leadership skills. (1999)

Best Practices to Help At-Risk Learners

Schargel presents 46 research-based tools, worksheets, and resources which have been field-tested in schools and dropout prevention programs across the country. For teachers, administrators, counselors, and special educators who work with at-risk learners, it provides assistance in applying the Fifteen Effective Strategies dentified by the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network.
Also available from Eye on Education. (2005)

Bouncing Back: Strengthening Resilience Through Service-Learning

Service-learning has the potential to strengthen the protective factors that make young people resilient. This guidebook shows how to maximize the service-learning experience to promote positive youth development. (2008)

Building Authentic Relationships With Youth At Risk

Building Authentic Relationships With Youth At Risk provides all members of a school staff with an approach to connecting with students that has proven successful with all students, especially those hardest to reach. All the tools needed for providing ten sessions of professional development, or combined sessions, are contained on the DVD.

  (2011)

Comprehensive School Reform: Common Issues and Lessons Learned for Improving Low-Performing Schools

An overview of the Program Assessment and Review (PAR) process, a model for school improvement, is presented. The New York State Education Department chose this model as part of their dropout prevention initiative for low-performing middle schools. The commonalities of the 12 school districts participating in the project are offered as a perspective on what other districts can do to improve instruction and achievement in their schools. (2003)

Converging Streams: The Power of Collaboration Among Service Groups

Collaborating with other streams of service, such as AmeriCorps and SeniorCorps, can enhance the development of your service-learning efforts. This guidebook teaches you the steps for effective collaboration. (2000)

Creating a Community of Learners: Using the Teacher as Facilitator Model

For successful service-learning, teachers need to learn how to be facilitative teachers. Teachers of all ages will benefit from the wisdom and experience of these exceptional teachers as they share the techniques and strategies that support facilitation. An excellent book for both pre-service and in-service staff education. (2000)

Curriculum Connections

A game which provides a simulated experience to assist educators in developing their skills for integrating service-learning into the curriculum.

Developing Leadership in Faculty and Students: The Power of Service-Learning in Teacher Education

Teacher educators have a wonderful opportunity to develop their students' and their own leadership skills through service-learning. (1999)

Do You Really Want to Drop Out? You Ought To Know the Facts!

This small booklet lays out the facts for young people who might be considering dropping out.
Sold only in quantities of 50. (2004)

Evaluation Guide for Tutoring Programs

Evaluation procedures specially designed for those who manage tutoring programs. (1992)

Fantastic Facilitator: Engaging Activities for Leading Groups

A "how to" book for developing and leading effective groups. Reusable masters include team building, personality measures, decision making processes, and activities for handling controversy. (1996)

Giving Youth the Power and the Money: A Guide to Establishing Youth Service-Learning Councils

Involving young people in grant-making councils is an exciting way to spread service-learning. Learn how to get such a program started. (1997)

Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach To Dropout Prevention

This book describes the 15 strategies identified by NDPC/N nationwide research. The research evidence is presented by many national experts and contains programmatic ideas for all high-risk students, including students with disabilities. The strategies provide school and community leaders with a framework to develop a comprehensive school improvement and dropout prevention program.
Also available from Eye on Education. (2004)

How's Your ESP?

A self-analysis tool for at-risk students to see how they feel about school, their families, and themselves; a useful tool for individual and group counseling. Sold only in quantities of 50. (1991)

Improving Reading for Academic Success: Strategies for Enhancing Adolescent Literacy

If your students can't read, they cannot learn science, math, or history and are more likely to become dropouts. With this latest publication, educators at the middle and high school levels will learn techniques to assist their struggling readers in learning important reading skills, no matter what these educators teach. (2009)

Journal of At-Risk Issues (subscription)

The Journal of At-Risk Issues (JARI), published by the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, is a nationally refereed journal that contains articles on research and practice in the areas of dropout prevention and youth in at-risk situations. It is published in the summer and winter and abstracted in ERIC.

Learning That Matters: Service-Learning at Clemson University

Service-learning in higher education presents new challenges. Experienced faculty from Clemson University share their solutions in this video. (1999)

Middle College High Schools: A Meaningful Option for Disconnected High School Students

Middle college is an alternative approach to re-engaging high school youth that has shown great success. Learn how these small high schools on college campuses provide a second chance to many students. (2006)

Neighborhood Squares

This board game can play a role in preparing students in grades 4-12 for service-learning through simulated experiences.

Off Their Rockers Into Service: Connecting Generations Through Service-Learning

Together youth and older adults can work together to solve community problems. Learn how to implement intergenerational service-learning. (1999)

Oral History: Let Their Voices Be Heard

Connecting the generations through oral history projects is an exciting service-leaning project. Learn how from this experienced educator. (2000)

Partners in Prevention: Involving College Students in Dropout Prevention

College students can play a significant role in meeting the needs of youth at risk. Learn how they can be most effective. (1997)

Pocket Guide to Multiple Intelligences

This booklet is a "quick read" introducing Dr. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and its application in working with all students. (Revised 1998). (1998)

Pondering Learning: Connecting Multiple Intelligences and Service-Learning

Research shows that children learn in a variety of ways, and the Multiple Intelligences Theory describes eight kinds of learning. Find out how to enhance student learning by connecting multiple intelligences and service-learning in this guidebook. (2001)

Powerful Allies: Afterschool Programs, Service-Learning, and Community Education

Powerful and practical suggestions are provided for how America's schools and communities can take advantage of all of the available people power and time to elevate our children's and communities' learning assets. (2004)

Research-Based Remedial Reading Strategies for Teens

Research-Based Remedial Reading Strategies for Teens provides the basis for an understanding of the core components or remedial reading instruction, methods for evaluating adolescents¹ reading skills and abilities, and reading resources that can be used by a teacher. (2011)

School to Work to Life: Linking Service-Learning and School-To-Work

By blending service-learning with school-to-work, your students will maximize the benefits of both educational initiatives. (1998)

Service-Learning and Character Education: Walking the Talk

Creating a comprehensive, youth-driven character education program is an outstanding way to encourage character development. Learn how to integrate character development into all your service-learning experiences. (2000)

Service-Learning in Higher Education: A Portrait of Five Institutions

This video tells the story of service-learning at five very different types of higher education institutions: a land-grant university, a state university, a community college, and a historically black college. (2000)

Service-Learning: Meeting the Needs of Youth At Risk

How to engage at-risk youth through service. (1992)

Straight Talk About Discipline

A comprehensive, holistic approach to achieving responsible, well-behaved young people. (1995)

Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem

This monograph examines and explains the 15 strategies identified by the NDPC/N based on its national database of model programs. Practical suggestions and model programs are offered for each strategy, which can be applied in local school and community settings.
Also available from Eye on Education. (2001)

Take a Class Outdoors: Environmental Service-Learning

A nationally recognized middle school shares its expertise in environmental service-learning. This is an excellent introduction to a very important kind of service-learning. (1998)

Teachable Moments: Ethics and Reflection in Service-Learning

Learn how to guide your students' reflections to incorporate ethical decision making, whether it's related to everyday problems or global issues. (2011)

The High-Performance Workforce and the At-Risk Student

A growing phenomenon is the changing needs of the workplace, with employers throughout the country calling for employees to be better prepared. The author of this monograph recognizes that the dropout situation impacts our economic challenges and provides examples of successful approaches to meeting the educational needs of at-risk students so they can become part of the high-performance workforce. (2006)

The Positive Effects of Mentoring

The Positive Effects of Mentoring provides staff with a comprehensive introduction to mentoring, as well as an in-depth look at the essential components to an effective mentoring program. All the tools you need to conduct ten sessions of professional development, or combined sessions, are contained on the DVD. (2010)

Tips for Use in Teacher Education

The suggestions in this guidebook will assist teacher educators in using the Linking Learning With Life series to enhance their service-learning instruction for both pre-service and active teachers. (2001)

Upcountry Stories: Students Serve Through Writing

This guidebook presents a multidisciplinary focus, grounded in writing, where students and teachers both preserve and create their communities through service to it. A variety of writing forms which are supported by state and national standards are included. (2001)

Youth Consultants: Putting It All Together

This video, presented by youth for youth, provides an accompanying piece to the guidebook by the same name. It shows students how they can become ambassadors for service-learning. (1997)