Lift: Raising the Bar for Service-Learning Practice
Check out the GSN’s new multimedia tool, Lift: Raising the Bar for Service-Learning Practice! Just launched this month, the first module focuses on the meaningful service standard through a self-navigable series of video clips and PDF documents.
Hear about how teachers, students, and community partners find or make meaning in their service-learning learning experiences. Travel from New Orleans, to Philadelphia, to St. Paul to learn from K-12 students and their adult allies about how they are impacting their communities.
Short video clips in the “Think About It; Talk About It” section are followed by questions to prompt discussion either within the GSN or onsite, among your teaching colleagues or students. Slightly longer video vignettes collected under the “Explore Meaningful Service” heading allow you to delve deeper into each of the indicators for meaningful service.
Each module also offers a summary of the related research, documented project examples, and teacher tools to help with implementation.
We hope you’ll find utility in this new approach to encouraging high quality practice, and will help the Lift grow through your online discussion of the questions it poses.
