• Mini Grants
• Trainings
  
• Referrals
  
• Creating effective service-learning partnerships with the community
  
• Guide staff and students identify service-learning activities that address real community needs
  
• Bring the community into the classroom and the classroom into the community to enhance and support academic service-learning

Community Education Service-Learning Program Specialists help
teachers and staff coordinate academic service-learning projects. 

What is Academic Service-Learning? 

Service to others takes many forms and has many names and
connotations. In a school context, examining different types of service
helps to clarify and define service-learning as a teaching method.

• Volunteer: One who contributes time without pay.
  
  
  
• Community service: Helping the community by
  choice or through court requirement; may or may not be associated with
  academics, curriculum, or reflection.
  
  
  
• Service-learning: A teaching method that:
  
  
  
  • Enables students to learn and apply academic, social, and personal
    skills to improve the community, continue individual growth, and
    develop a lifelong ethic of service
  • Focuses on both the service and the learning
    
  • Is appropriate for all students and all curricular areas
    
  • Encourages cross-curricular integration
    
  • Helps foster civic responsibility
    
  • Provides students with structured time to reflect on the service experience

Location

Saint Paul Public Schools Rondo Education Center (enter red doors)
560 Concordia Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55103
(651) 325-2672