New NSLC-Produced Resources

General/Cross-Sector

SLICE (Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples)
If you are looking for resources and ideas for your program then come by and check out SLICE (Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples), the newest tool from Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse that helps make service-learning easier and better.
It's a one-stop-shop, easy-to-search database full of hundreds of high quality service-learning lesson plans, syllabi, and project ideas. Get teaching ideas for your program, and also helps us grow the new database by submitting your own materials at: www.servicelearning.org/slice .

SLICE is turning out to be a really rich database, a great resource for the community, and an exciting new way to call extra attention to the great work already being done in service-learning. We whole-heartedly encourage you to contribute your own lesson plans, syllabi, and project ideas today!

CBO

Character Education and Service-Learning
Learn more about the integral relationship of character education and service-learning.
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/cb_facts/char_ed/index.php

Higher Ed
Developing Service-Learning Scholarship: Actions & Issues to Consider
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of contemporary issues regarding scholarship in higher education, actions to consider in developing a scholarly agenda in SL, and resources for faculty review, promotion and tenure.
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/he_facts/he_ops/index.php

K-12

Citizenship and Service-Learning in K-12 Schools
The research on service-learning and citizenship in K-12 schools is growing rapidly as the issue of citizenship takes center stage on the national level. This fact sheet provides a very brief discussion of several of the emergent issues discovered in the research and provides extended abstracts of a few key studies.
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/k-12_facts/citizenship/index.php

Impacts of Service-Learning on Participating K-12 Students
Service-learning approaches used in K-12 schools have been found in many studies to have positive impacts on students' academic achievement, civic engagement, career aspirations, and social/personal development. This fact sheet provides an update and summary of research on K-12 service-learning impacts published since 1999.
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/k-12_facts/impacts/index.php

Policy: K-12 Service-Learning
The development of state policies legitimizes the practice of service-learning. It also provides mechanisms for stable funding and development of guidelines for service-learning programs at the local school levels. This fact sheet will help you understand K-12 service-learning policy.
http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/k-12_facts/policy/index.php