Community Service-Learning Council Agenda 11/8/10 Ice Breaker Training element: Duration and Intensity District Themes MLK Day Communicating to Each School Wiki

Ice Breaker Processing “Keep Your Balance” What strategies did you use to stay balanced? – Focus on a stable point= goal What happens if your point of reference shifts or becomes unstable? Struggling to keep your balance can be exhausting. – How do you achieve balance in your life?

Duration & Intensity Goal: Real and Lasting Impact Sufficient duration and intensity need during each core components – investigate, prepare, act, reflect, demonstrate and celebrate, and sustain. – All the elements in place for service and learning outcomes. Typically takes concentrated blocks of time across several weeks or months.

Questions to Consider During Each Stage of CSL 1. Investigation Have you focused enough time on investigating priorities so that you have confidence that the service you provide will be meaningful and have the desired impact? 2. Preparation Is adequate time set aside to accomplish the service goals and to complete the other components of the service-learning process? Is the project significant enough in duration and intensity to have a real impact in the community and in the lives of participants?

Questions to Consider During Each Stage of CSL 3. Action Are participants spending enough time engaged in service that they are able to make a meaningful contribution? Does the service activity continue across a period of several weeks or months in order to achieve service and learning outcomes? 4. Reflection How much time is needed to fully reflect on the service experiences?

Questions to Consider During Each Stage of CSL 5. Demonstration/Celebration How are celebration and recognition activities planned to be proportionate to the project’s level of duration and intensity? 6. Sustain How will you build greater and greater duration and intensity into short-term service-learning efforts? How will you work to ensure that programs are of adequate duration and intensity for impact while also avoiding burnout or drops in participation?

District Themes/MLK Day Environment/Green Initiatives The Elderly Hunger & Homelessness Tolerance/Anti-Bullying – MLK Day – Planning across district

Wiki Spaces

Communicating About CSL at Schools Thoughts/Concerns about CSL at the site-level What Information is needed for teachers? Planning a PowerPoint that can be used at each school Tie-in/Hook for MLK Day?

Upcoming Meeting 12/13/10 Homework 1.LOOK at the WIKI 2.Talk to Principal about Having CSL Staff Discussion – Faculty Meeting – CSL Info/101 Optional Meeting

Thank You! “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?” -Martin Luther King