• Mini Grants
• Trainings
  
• Referrals
  
• Creating effective service-learning partnerships with the community
  
• Guide staff and students to identify service-learning activities that address real community needs
  
• Bring the community into the classroom and the classroom into the community to enhance and support academic service-learning

Community Education Service-Learning Program Specialists help
teachers and staff coordinate academic service-learning projects. 

What is Academic Service-Learning? 

Service to others takes many forms and has many names and
connotations. In a school context, examining different types of service
helps to clarify and define service-learning as a teaching method.

• Volunteer: One who contributes time without pay.
  
  
  
• Community service: Helping the community by
  choice or through court requirement; may or may not be associated with
  academics, curriculum, or reflection.
  
  
  
• Service-learning: A teaching method that:
  
  
  
  • Enables students to learn and apply academic, social, and personal
    skills to improve the community, continue individual growth, and
    develop a lifelong ethic of service
  • Focuses on both the service and the learning
    
  • Is appropriate for all students and all curricular areas
    
  • Encourages cross-curricular integration
    
  • Helps foster civic responsibility
    
  • Provides students with structured time to reflect on the service experience

Location

Saint Paul Public Schools Rondo Education Center (enter through the red doors)

Community Education Service-Learning Program

560 Concordia Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55103
(651) 325-2672