Sequence of events

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Lake County Service-Learning
YC Internal accounts Community partners
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Lake County Service-Learning Program Development
Community collaborations

• Train a cadre of students (youth councils) to
• identify the needs of their community
• design service-learning projects to address these
  needs
• recruit teachers from classes that coordinate
  with possible projects (offer mini-grants)
  
• Working with community organizations and feeder
  schools, facilitate all aspects of all projects
  in that community

HS
FS
UHS
SLHS
ERHS
THS
OPMS
CMS
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SI Components

• Cascade of Training
• District Training for 4 high school YC- SLHS
• Each YC will train respective YC class (1 day)
• Each YC will conduct SL workshops for classes
  outside of the YC that are participating in a
  project
• Peer Mediation By December all 6 Youth Councils
  will be trained
• 9 workshops per school that includes history,
  philosophy, nature of conflict, causes, referral
  process, set up of mediation room, 6 step
  process, writing scenarios, forms, marketing,
  etc.)

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SI Components

• District-wide evaluation based on 21st Century
  Skills
• About 70 of the service-learning in Lake County
  involves older students tutoring younger
  students.
• The core curriculum used in Lake County for
  middle and high school Youth Council schools are
  the 21st Century skills (See 21st Century Skills
  table)
• When comparing Pre Post test results for 21st
  Century Skill competency, we found that the
  percentage of competency increased by an average
  of 30 points (if interested, a full report is
  available)
• In general, 80 of Youth Council members
  believed they were capable of performing each of
  the 21st Century skills at a good or excellent
  level

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SI Components 06-07 Project Replication
Expansion

• ERHS Operation V-8 This Little Light of Mine
• SLHS Challenge Day Break Silence/Stop Violence
• THS CRIME PACT Multicultural Awareness
• UHS After school Anti-bullying park Sticks and
  Stones
• All High School YC Teacher mini-grants dealing
  with safety issues
• All YC schools
• Continuation expansion of Peer Mediation
• Character Education Project
• Estimated total 31 Projects

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Service-Learning Special Initiatives Character
Education Project

• Each of 6 Service-Learning Youth Council
  Schools will create high quality literacy
  products to be used as part of the Youth Council
  tutoring library. The following are learning
  objectives
• Increase reading, writing and communication
  skills
• Develop character traits
• Develop 21st Century Skills

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Academic Integration, Collaborations Roles

• 6 Elementary Feeder Schools- Recipient of service
  
• 6 Service-Learning Youth Councils- Monthly
  elementary feeder school visits to teach
  character education activities. Facilitate all
  administrative aspects of project to learn 21st
  Century Skills and develop positive character
  traits
• Intensive Reading or English Write a storybook
  based on character. Increase reading, writing and
  communication skills
• Art and/or Digital/Commercial Design Illustrate
  the storybook. Increase communication and
  illustration skills

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Story Book Criteria

• Positive character trait demonstrated
• Situations that deal with school or community
  safety, stranger danger, bullying, tolerance,
  violence prevention, senior safety disaster
  preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery
  or other type of homeland security/safety issue

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Lake County SI Project Status

• Sept. 11 Site Coordinators planned overall
  program timelines budgets
• Sept. 26-28 District Training- Team-building
  SI Project Planning
• Participation in district-wide character
• education project
• Replication Expansion of 06-07 projects
• Development of new projects via YC teacher
• mini-grants

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SI Project-4 high schools

• Oct. 11 SI Project teacher workshop
• Site Coordinators
• Intensive Reading teachers
• Art teachers
• Elementary Feeder school contact

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Oct. 12 Workshop Objectives

• Gain an operational knowledge of the
  service-learning teaching method
• Gain an operational knowledge of the Lake County
  Service-Learning Youth Council responsibilities
  and how those responsibilities relate to your
  role as a service-learning teacher
• Understand how to apply the service-learning
  stages to the Lake County Service-Learning
  Character Education project.

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Middle School StatusClermont Middle School

• Oct. 3rd CMS presented a PP and skit on their
  projects including the SI project and distributed
  a survey to CRES teachers
• Surveys are currently under review for project
  consideration scheduling

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Middle SchoolsOak Park Middle School

• YC class was scheduled 7th period which is after
  Leesburg Elementary School students are
  dismissed.
• YC members are rotating 3 times before, and
  after school on Wednesday and Fridays at their
  Extended Day Program as part of a Lake County
  Literacy grant involving an advanced reading
  project. Plans to start the character education
  project hopefully will begin by the end of
  October.

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Estimated Participants/Hours

• Servers 876
• 220 10 YC classes _at_ 70 hours each (15,400 hrs.)
• 350 (4 classes of art _at_ 25 100) reading (6
  classes of 25 150) 20 hrs. each 7,000 hrs.
• 306 (12 mini-grants _at_ 25 students each) 20 hrs.
  each 6120
• Estimated service hours 22,400 (does not count
  mini-grants hours)
• Recipients 4,470
• 1400 P-K Elementary (25 to 30 of teachers)
• 1350 middle schools
• 1550 high school
• 170 other adults

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Upcoming events

• Oct. 27th Training of Trainers
• Nov. 5th Follow-up to CBK workshop for Executive
  Teacher Council
• Nov. 8th Executive YC
• Project Portfolio updates based on grant
  requirements
• Student director role updates based on grant
  requirements
• Program process review using the character
  education project as sample
• Mini-grant application requirement updates
• Project outcomes
• LASSIE Tracking tool
• Nov. 12-14th Florida SL Institute 3 day Youth
  Empowerment training
• Dec. 4th Site Coordinators Spring Program
  Planning
• Dec. 7-9 Orange County High School High Tech
  Program Youth Empowerment Training (SLHS)