Publications
The Partnership is pleased to produce, edit, and promote the following publications. To subscribe to our publications, join the National Service-Learning Partnership.
| Information for Action: A Journal for Research on Service-Learning for Children and Youth |
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| The Journal is a peer-reviewed publication that features relevant, methodologically sound studies of service-learning impacts and examples of innovative instruction written by experts, scholars, practitioners, and youth. | |
| IFA Journal |
| Information for Action | |
| The Partnership’s new Information for Action series provides simple summaries of research data that you can use to strengthen and spread service-learning. | |
| Service-Learning Summer Institutes Serving Together: Higher Education Partnerships Supporting K-12 Service-Learning |
| Service-Learning Investment Prospectus | |
| The Service-Learning Investment Prospectus was created to generate sustained interest and investment in the field of service-learning, particularly in the areas of policy, practice, research, constituency building, and communications;. |
| Service-Learning Advances | |
| The Partnership’s electronic newsletter, published monthly, offers comprehensive and timely information about K-12 service-learning. | |
| Current SLA SLA Archives |
| District Lessons | |
| District Lessons aims to strengthen member-to-member dialogue about promoting and strengthening service-learning at the school district level. The series provides important stories, tools, models, resource summaries, policy analyses, and other kinds of information requested by members, showcasing members’ work and services. | |
| Current District Lessons District Lessons Archives |
| Talk It Up | |
| Through the Talk It Up series, Partnership members share tips with one another about advocating effectively for service-learning. | |
| Current Talk It Up Talk It Up Archives |
| Cathy’s Corner | |
| An advice column on high quality service-learning practice by Cathryn Berger Kaye. | |
| Cathy’s Corner Archives |
| Inform and Influence | |
| A step-by-step guide, which includes tips, resources, and links, to advocate effectively for service-learning. |
| Service-Learning Professional Development Modules | |
| Created by Dr. James Toole of Compass Institute and the University of Minnesota, the CD offers three professional development modules of varying lengths, which provide off-the-shelf materials that are easy to use by teachers and teacher educators. |
| Service-Learning Videos | |
| The W.K. Kellogg Foundation created a video series on service-learning. The videos are available for free. |
| We Make the Road by Walking | |
| The Partnership’s first annual report and strategic plan, We Make the Road by Walking, analyzes how service-learning can become a core part of the educational experience of every K-12 student in the United States. |
| Advocacy Action Briefs | |
| The briefs provided legislative news and advocacy information to help service-learning supporters track relevant education and youth development legislation. They monitored significant state and federal legislation, and analyzes the impact on service-learning. The briefs are now incorporated into Service-Learning Advances. |