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[|Boise State Service Learning Webpage]

[|Service Learning in Support of Boise Schools] A website for grants available to Boise School teachers as they implement service learning in their classrooms.

Serve Idaho: projects and projects in need of volunteers in Idaho! [|Campus Compact] http://www.compact.org/...A comprehensive site that includes resources for service-learning practitioners, including faculty, presidents, and administrators. Includes a calendar of events, extensive links to web resources, job listings, news, model programs and sample syllabi, a section dedicated to "building the Service-Learning Pyramid," and much more.

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples (SLICE) [] ... This site contains a searchable database of K-12 and higher education service-learning literature, information about events, listservs, and Learn & Serve America efforts and links to a variety of service-learning information resources. **Lots of great lesson plans, ideas and examples for K-12 teachers! ** = __ [|A Formula for Creating Successful Student-Run Service Learning Projects] __ =

The Whole Child: "Each child, in each school, in each of our communities deserves to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. That’s what a whole child approach to learning, teaching, and community engagement really is." [|The Big Dummy's Guide to Service-Learning] http://www2.fiu.edu/~time4chg/Library/bigdummy.html This site is organized around frequently asked questions and divided into faculty and programmatic issues. Includes "101 ideas for Combining Service & learning" in various disciplines. [|Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning] http://www.umich.edu/~mjcsl/ The MJCSL is a peer-reviewed academic journal containing papers written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community. The site contains abstracts of MJCSL articles and information on subscribing and submitting manuscripts.

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Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Jeffrey Howard, Editor. Ann Arbor: OSCL Press.
 * Journals and Periodicals**

Each issue has a variety of peer-reviewed articles related to research, pedagogy, and theory relevant to service-learning. View the journal's 2000 special issue : "Strategic Directions for Service-Learning Research." This issue not only summarizes what is known about service-learning in higher education, it also identifies gaps in our knowledge for which further research is needed. The table of contents and abstracts can be viewed online. National Society for Experiential Education Quarterly

Articles from the field of experiential education, including research related to the effectiveness of experiential education techniques, are featured in this quarterly journal. Service-learning is one of the many experiential education methods featured in this journal. Compact Current

The Compact Current is a resource for service-learning faculty in all disciplines. The Reader is published in the Fall, Winter, and Spring. Articles address democratic citizenship, education reform, civic renewal and the transformation of higher education. Book reviews and notices of upcoming publications are a great way to keep up to date on new research related to service-learning and higher education. Partnership Matters Newsletter

Partnership Matters is published twice a month by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and provides an excellent resource for learning about new publications related to service-learning in the health professions. There are numerous websites related to service-learning in higher education. Many of these websites are profiled in the Higher Education links category of the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. The links presented below related specifically to the research and evidence base for service-learning in higher education. You may wish to bookmark these links for future reference. American Association of Community Colleges Horizons Service Learning Project
 * Websites**

A variety of publications are available by following the link above, providing evidence related to the institutionalization of service-learning at the community college level. Campus Compact

Campus Compact frequently publishes and disseminates new research related to service-learning. Find links to service-learning conferences where the latest research on the effectiveness of service-learning is shared and discussed. Click here to view the annual survey of the Campus Compact membership, measuring growth in community service and service-learning, and identifying issue areas and trends. UC Berkeley Service-Learning Research and Development Center

The Service-Learning Research and Development Center website provides a number of resources related to service-learning research and evaluation. The goal of the research activities of the Center is to better understand the implications of service activities on teaching, learning, and schooling. UCLA Higher Education Service-Learning Clearinghouse Evaluation and Research

The University of California-Los Angeles Higher Education Service-Learning Clearinghouse was a part of the Higher Education Research Institute. These archives of the now defunct site are a resource for research on the effectiveness of service-learning as a methodology.

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