1. Note: This PowerPoint is meant for youth audiences.
[YOUR NAME(S)] [YOUR SCHOOL, ORGANIZATION, OR GROUP] [THE DATE OF YOUR PRESENTATION]

2. What is Service-Learning?
Core Components of
Service-Learning
Benefits of Service-Learning
Statistics About Service-Learning
Project Examples
More Information

3. Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities
An easy way to communicate service-learning to others is to use the following: 
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities.
Through its federal regulation (42 U.S.C ), the government defines the term "service-learning" as: a method under which students or participants learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that:
Is conducted in and meets the needs of a community;
Is coordinated with an elementary school, secondary school, institution of higher education, or community service program, and with the community;
Helps foster civic responsibility;
Is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students, or the educational components of the community service program in which the participants are enrolled; and
Provides structured time for the students or participants to reflect on the service experience.

4. Demonstration/Celebration
Investigation 
Planning
Action
Reflection
Demonstration/Celebration
Investigation 
Research the community problems of interest (i.e. needs assessment).
Conduct research to determine the extent and nature of the problem to establish a baseline and monitor progress.
Identify possible community partners.
Planning
Start by finding a place to speak (schools, nonprofit organizations, civic groups and government bodies).
Determine who will be in your audience and how to engage them.
Secure any necessary materials and equipment.
Prepare by establishing a step-by-step plan on how to move through your presentation.
Practice with friends and family first and ask for feedback.
Promote your presentation with community calendars, bulletin boards, newspapers, the internet, etc.
Action
Implement the plan by engaging in the activities that meet the community need.
Introduce yourself and tell the audience what you’re going to say.
Tell your own story and the service-learning story.
Respond to all questions.
Make yourself available to anyone who would like to talk after the formal presentation.
Leave handouts and other information with your host and the audience.
Reflection
Reflect at each stage of the service-learning process. Some ways to reflect include analyzing actions taken and the project’s impact, what worked and what didn’t, and how the work contributed to the common good.
Reflect on your work using a variety of techniques like journaling, art projects and public discussion.
Demonstration/Celebration
Show others what was accomplished, learned, and the impact of the work.
Celebrate the work!
Shelley Billig, RMC Research, 2009

5. Service-learning helps you:
Develop job skills
Meet other young people
Strengthen your college and scholarship applications
Obtain an internship or job in an exciting field
Have more fun and get more meaning from your classes

6. How it helps your community:
Real needs are addressed by feeding the homeless, tutoring students who are struggling, developing wetlands, and more
Changes occur because of students’ ideas, energy and commitment
Other people are inspired to get and stay involved in their community
The community gains a great resource – you!

7. Learn and Serve America:
More than 1.1 MILLION young people engage in service through the Learn and Serve America program
According to Learn and Serve America: More than 1.1 million young people engage in service through the Learn and Serve America program, the single largest funder of service-learning programs.

8. Service in America’s schools:
The percentage of K-12 public schools offering service programs grew to 68% in 2008
High schools are especially likely to recognize community service
96% of schools with service programs report that the percentage of students participating has remained the same or increased
According to a Corporation for National and Community Service 2008 issue brief, Community Service and Service-Learning in America’s Schools:
The percentage of K-12 public school principals reporting that their school offers recognized opportunities for students to serve has grown from 64 percent in 1999 to 68 percent in 2008.
High schools are especially likely to recognize community service, with 86 percent of schools doing so, up from 83 percent in A smaller group of schools offer service-learning, which ties community service to academic instruction and reflection.
Of the schools that have service-learning activities today, 96 percent of their principals report that the percentage of students participating has remained the same or has grown over recent years.

9. Campus Compact Survey:
2,226,682 students participated in some form of service
An average of 37 faculty members per campus taught service-learning courses
Member campuses offered an average of 36 service-learning courses each
12% of campuses required service- learning courses for graduation
A 2007 Campus Compact survey of 1,144 institutions of higher education that are members of Campus Compact found:
2,226,682 students participated in some form of service.
An average of 37 faculty members per campus teach service-learning courses.
Member campuses offer an average of 36 service-learning courses each.
12 percent of campuses required service-learning courses for graduation.
(2007 Service Statistics: Highlights and Trends of Campus Compact’s Annual Membership Survey, Campus Compact)

10. [Insert your service-learning program]
K-12 schools – Carroll County, Md.
Tribal – Fort McDermitt Paiute/Shoshone Tribe in McDermitt, Nev.
Higher education – Otterbein College’s Creative Literacy Alliance
Community-based – Children for Children, a New York City-based service-learning nonprofit organization
K-12 schools
Throughout Carroll County, Maryland, as part of their microbiology classes students:
Addressed the plight of the American chestnut tree;
Grew chestnut seedlings in mini-orchards on school grounds;
Tracked tree growth, tested trees for blight resistance; and
Learned about the growth and transplanting of trees and worked in microbiology labs to isolate the DNA of the fungus that kills chestnuts through a partnership with MdBioLab.
The American Chestnut Foundation has used the students’ research in their efforts to preserve the tree in Maryland.
Tribal
High school students from the Fort McDermitt Paiute/Shoshone Tribe in McDermitt, Nevada, located in a rural and remote section of the state:
Partnered with the McDermitt Combined School to involve students in service-learning projects focused on mentoring, community and economic development, and preservation of tribal culture;
Mentored elementary school students and presented lessons to elementary classrooms on good citizenship;
Collaborated with two other tribal communities—Owyhee and Pyramid Lake—to implement Project Ignition, a program to teach safe driving techniques;
Established the McDermitt Fire and Emergency Exploring Post;
Offered stargazing events where students shared what they had learned in astronomy class with community members and visiting tourists; and
Taught traditional dances, songs, chants and stories, and gave performances at local events and powwows.
Higher education
Otterbein College’s Creative Literacy Alliance is a service-learning partnership between Otterbein College and Genoa Middle School in Westerville, Ohio. The college students that were enrolled in a course on teaching creative writing in the community: 
Served as poets-in-residence at the middle school, teaching over 300 diverse and economically disadvantaged urban youths literacy habits and strategies;
Connected children with nationally recognized artists-in-residence, poet Helen Frost and playwright Michael London;
Collaborated with middle school students to write, direct and act in social justice plays to raise awareness in their community about violence, bullying and identity issues. The plays were performed throughout the city as a teen community awareness program; and
Improved student proficiency scores in reading to the Creative Literacy Alliance.
Community-based
Children for Children, a New York City-based service-learning nonprofit organization, partnered with the After-School Corporation to engage youths from 15 different after-school programs across New York City under the “Building Healthy Communities” initiative. Through service-learning activities designed to combat childhood obesity, the program engaged fourth-grade students from The Poe Cottage School (PS 246) in the Bronx to:
Participate in a “Healthy Smoothie and Cookbook Sale;”
Develop ways to introduce their peers, families and community members to healthy foods and recipes;
Educate community members on diabetes and raise money to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International;
Develop critical thinking skills through research on children’s health issues, and created a cookbook that was based on benefits of different foods and nutritional guides;
Engage their peers, families, and members of the school and greater community; and
Raise awareness about health and provided resources to support healthy behavior.

11. Learn and Serve America
Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Service-Learning Youth Speaker’s Bureau
Learn & Serve Challenge
Learn and Serve America: Higher Ed
Bring Learning To Life
Corporation for National and Community Service

12. NationalService.gov
The Learn and Serve America program is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency whose mission is to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering. The Corporation provides opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to serve their communities through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America.