Did You Know

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Service-Learning in Ohio Schools
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Did You Know?
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• Almost one-third of all public high school
  students fail to graduate.

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• Nearly 50 of minority students fail to graduate?

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• One student drops out of high school
• every 26 seconds.

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• Thats 7,000
• students per day.

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Did You Know?
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• Dropouts from the class of 2007 alone will cost
  the nation more than
• 329 billion in lost wages, taxes and
  productivity over their lifetimes.

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Did You Know?
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• If the number of dropouts in a single year were
  cut in half, the federal government would reap
  45 billion in extra tax revenue and reduced
  costs in public health, crime and welfare
  payments.

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Did You Know?
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• More than 80 of students say that if schools
  provided chances for
• real-world learning it would improve their
  chances of graduating from high school.

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Did You Know?
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• Service-learning is a powerful educational
  strategy that provides an opportunity for
• real-world learning.

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• SERVICE-LEARNING
• is not volunteerism
• is not community service

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• SERVICE-LEARNING
• applies classroom learning through the
  investigation of a community problem
• planning ways to solve it
• action through service
• reflection on the experience and what was
  learned
• and demonstration of results.

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K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality
Practice

• 1) Meaningful service
• 2) Link to Curriculum
• 3) Reflection
• 4) Diversity
• 5) Youth Voice
• 6) Partnerships
• 7) Progress Monitoring
• 8) Duration and Intensity

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Why is quality important?

• Quality service-learning enriches, enhances and
  reinforces what teachers teach and what students
  learn
• Research shows that students engaged in quality
  service-learning learn more and do better on
  standardized performance tests than students who
  dont participate in service-learning

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• SERVICE-LEARNING
• has the potential to increase
• Attendance and Engagement

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• SERVICE-LEARNING
• can foster
• Motivation and Achievement

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• SERVICE-LEARNING
• Boosts self-confidence.
• Builds leadership skills.
• Gives a sense of empowerment.
• Improves academic performance.
• Improves student behavior.

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• SERVICE-LEARNING
• Helps discouraged learners feel connected to
  their school and to their community.
• It connects students to caring adult role models.
• By using classroom knowledge in the real world,
  it helps answer the question Why do I need to
  know this?
• Helps students develop problem-solving and
  critical thinking skills.

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• Everyone can be great. because everyone
• can serve.
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Connecting Ohios Professional Development
Standards with Service-Learning

• Dr. L. Richard Bradley, Ph.D.
• 6670 Hayhurst Street
• Worthington, OH 43085
• 614/570-5514
• creativityrb_at_yahoo.com

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Background

• 2004 Senate Bill 2 creates Educator Standards
  Board
• 2005 ESB Standards adopted these focus on
  goals and objectives of professional development
  for teachers as they seek to improve their
  teaching

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Why Standards-Based Education?

• Standards
• Make shared expectations for success clear for
  everyone
• Delineate what matters in teaching and learning
• Show best practices in instruction and leadership
• Facilitate communication through common language
• Meet state and federal guidelines

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How are service-learning and a standards-based
education connected?

• SBE helps focus service-learning opportunities
• Service-learning promotes transfer of abstract
  concepts to the real-world
• Connecting service-learning with SBE helps
  document student learning
• Service-learning in the context of SBE fosters
  student independence and motivation

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Standard 1 Students

• Teachers understand student learning and
  development and respect student diversity.

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Standard 2 Content

• Teachers know and understand the content area for
  which they have instructional responsibility.

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Standard 3 Assessment

• Teachers understand and use varied assessments to
  inform instruction, evaluate and ensure student
  learning.

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Standard 4 Assessment

• Teachers plan and deliver effective instruction
  that advances the learning of each individual
  student.

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Standard 5 Learning Environment

• Teachers create learning environments that
  promote high levels of learning achievement for
  all students.

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Standard 6 Collaboration and Communication

• Teachers collaborate and communicate with
  students, parents, other educators,
  administrators and the community to support
  student learning.

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Standard 7 Professional Responsibility and
Growth

• Teachers assume responsibility for professional
  growth, performance and involvement as an
  individual and as a member of a learning
  community.

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Learn and Serve Ohio

• Learn Serve Ohio operates within the Ohio
  Department of Education (ODE) and makes funds
  from the Corporation for National and Community
  Service (CNCS) available for school-based
  service-learning to local education agency (LEA)
  partnerships. Funding supports the
  implementation, operation or expansion of
  programs that advance service- learning as a
  teaching, learning, and youth development
  strategy.

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Learn and Serve Ohio

• Program DirectorCharlotte Jones-Ward25
  South Front St., 403 Columbus, Ohio
  43215(Phone) 614-466-8920(Fax) 614-387-0963
  charlotte.jones-ward_at_ode.state.oh.us
• http//www.learnandserveohio.org/index.htm

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• "Service-learning provides students with the
  opportunity to practice how to make a difference
  in their schools and communities. When students
  engage in high quality service-learning we are
  preparing them to be the next generation of
  leaders."
• Learn and Serve Ohio Program Director,
  Charlotte Jones-Ward

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Learn and Serve Model Grants

• Elida Local Schools
• Contact Jo Ellen Miller
• 419-331-4155 joellen_at_elida.k12.oh.us
• Hancock County Educational Service Center
• Contact Kimberly Bash
• 419-425-1100 kbash_at_community-foundation.c
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• Hudson City Schools
• Contact Lani Banner
• 330-653-1416 bannerl_at_hudson.edu
• North Olmstead City Schools
• Contact Jeffrey Zullo
• 440-779-8794 jzullo_at_leeca.org

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Learn and Serve Model Grants

• Ripley-Union-Lewis-Huntington Local Schools
• Contact Kristi Scott
• 937-392-4224 kristiscott_at_sbcglobal.net
• Tri-Village Local Schools
• Contact Kimberly Puckett
• 937-996-1511 kim_puckett_at_darke.k12.oh.us
  
• Upper Arlington City Schools
• Contact Jeanne Gogolski
• 614-487-5000 jgogolski_at_uaschools.org

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• "I firmly believe that service-learning is a
  vital classroom instructional method. It
  enriches your education and helps you be more
  engaged and informed about your world. There is
  no doubt that service-learning will continue to
  expand in Ohio¹s schools."
• State Superintendent of Public Instruction
  Deborah Delisle.

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• Hancock County ESC
• ECLIPSe
• (Emerging Community Leaders Investing in
  Philanthropic Service)

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ECLIPSe Partners
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• Hancock County ESC
• ECLIPSe is a K-16 Partnership that promotes
• Youth Philanthropy
• Service-learning
• Civic Engagement

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• Hancock County ESC
• ECLIPSe has helped more than 275 teachers,
• 3,700 students and
• 325 adult volunteers implement service-learning
  projects over the last 7 years.

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• Hancock County ESC
• ECLIPSe Youth Grantmaking Council

• Raise funds.
• Review grant applications.
• Interview potential grantees.
• Award grants and make check presentations.

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• Hancock Countys Promise.
• Growing Great Kids
• Search Institute 40 Developmental Assets
• Americas Promise- Five Promises
• Caring Adults
• Safe Places
• A Healthy Start
• Effective Education
• Opportunities to Help Others
• http//www.gotoservicelearning.org/

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• Hancock County ESC
• Alternative Opportunity Center
• Students participate in a year-long course
  that incorporates life skills training,
  development of the 40 Assets and service-learning.

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• Findlay Digital Academy
• Standards based on-line curriculum for grades
  9-12
• Service-learning elective credit
• Work study elective credit
• Parent support
• Technology support

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• Hancock County ESC
• Liberty Benton STRIDES
• Students
• Taking
• Roles
• In
• Developing
• Educational
• Success

Relevance Rigor Relationships
Excellence
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• Hancock County ESC
• Liberty Benton STRIDES
• . in STRIDES we are forced out of our comfort
  zones sometimes. When you're forced out of your
  comfort zone, instead of rejecting it, embrace
  it!  I am proud to be a STRIDES leader!"
• Kelley, senior STRIDES leader

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• Findlay High School

• Save Johnsons Island
• Junior Statesmen of America Bed nets, water
  wells, secondary school, farm implements and
  orphanages for Africa
• Smokers Corner
• Pay it Forward

Junior Statesman of America Project
Save Johnsons Island Project
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Hancock County ESC

• Van Buren Medieval Garden

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Success Stories

• Cleveland Municipal School District
• Alternative School Students involved in
  service-learning
• Since Vernishas participation in the
  Service-Learning Program, she has truly began to
  blossom. Here daily attendance has improved and
  she has been recognized as one of our Rising
  Stars. When asked about her success, she
  attributed to her participation in
  Service-learning.
• Richaun N. Lane, LSW, MSW
• Service Learning Coordinator
• Service-learning was good for me. It made me
  want to help the Pre-K students more. It made me
  feel really good to help someone, like others had
  helped me before. I cant wait to go back.
• Jazmine A.

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Success Stories

• College students who participated in
• service-learning in high school
• Working in a special education resource room
  lead to my passion of working with students with
  disabilities. Growing up with a learning
  disability, I knew I wanted to give back. But,
  after my time at Hudson Middle School, I knew it
  was my passion and purpose in life.
• Blair Davis- Miami of Ohio (2003)

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• Service-learning
• in Ohio Schools
• Working together, we can
• reduce the high school dropout rate
• engage our students, teachers and parents
• improve school climate
• strengthen school-community partnerships
• reduce behavioral problems
• increase student achievement

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• Kimberly Bash
• Program Officer
• The Findlay-Hancock County
• Community Foundation
• 101 W. Sandusky Street, Suite 207
• Findlay, Ohio 45840
• 419-425-1100
• kbash_at_community-foundation.com
• http//www.community-foundation.com/ECLIPSe_whatis
  .htm