Service Learning
Welcome to the Heritage Academy of Science & Technology Service-Learning Webpage! Here you will find information on service-learning resources and programming. Heritage Academy of Science & Technology is committed to making service-learning a fundamental part of its instruction and learning community where,
• Students are active in communities as partners, leaders, and advocates,
• Learning is experiential, student-centered, academically sound, meaningful, and lifelong.
What is Service-Learning?
Service-Learning is a method of teaching that enriches learning by engaging students in meaningful service to their schools and communities, and integrating that service with established curricula or learning objectives.
• Picking up trash on a riverbank is service.
• Studying water samples under a microscope is learning.
• When science students collect and analyze water samples, document their results, and present findings to a local pollution control agency – that is service-learning.
Community
Heritage Academy of Science and Technology continually forms meaningful partnerships with schools and organizations locally and nationwide, to rebuild community through service-learning activities.
Professional Development
Heritage Academy of Science and Technology is a proud member of NYLC’s Generator School Network. The Generator School Network is a community of schools committed to best practices in service-learning — and to the vision that high-quality service-learning should be a part of the school experience for every student.
Membership in the GSN helps educators assess and strengthen their service-learning practice, access curricular tools from NYLC, share their experiences and projects, and improve student and community outcomes. Through an easy-to-use online community, the GSN connects K-12 teachers and administrators, giving them voice outside their classrooms and schools while providing them with the materials they need.
Service-Learning Activities
Staff and students will participate in the following service-learning activities with local and national partners.
Service-Learning Energy Audit
Students will learn how to use the energy auditing tools; to find out how much energy and money
things in the school use; come up with data-based suggestions for saving energy to share with
students, teachers, the principal, their families, and others; and to figure out how to move forward.
Students can use their skills to audit local homes; teach younger students the basics of energy efficiency; share their knowledge with local businesses; and change policy in their schools and districts.
National Service-Learning Conference
www.nylc.org/conference
The National Service-Learning Conference is the largest gathering of youths and practitioners from the service-learning field, drawing 2500-3000 attendees from across the United States and 30 countries.
Service-Learning Student Leadership Group
A team of students from each grade level trained in quality service-learning, to serve as peer mentors for the entire school community in service-learning projects.
Service-Learning Resources
Links to service-learning resources.
The Service-Learning Cycle
The process in a service-learning project that helps participants determine what they've accomplished, learned, and need to do next.
K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice
The K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice are a guide for service-learning practitioners to improve the quality of service-learning within the classroom.
Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples (SLICE)
A database of quality service-learning lesson plans, syllabi, and project ideas.
Service-Learning Partners
National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC)
www.nylc.org
A pioneer non profit service-learning organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that offers trainings of youths and practitioners, online and print publications, research, and program development.
Barack and Michelle Obama Service-Learning Elementary
obama.spps.org
A K-6 service-learning elementary in the Saint Paul Public School District.
Irvington High School
www.irvington.org
A high school in the Fremont Unified School District.
To learn more about Heritage Academy of Technology and Science please [ email us ].
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