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Aligning After School Programming with the

School Day through

Service-Learning

Cate Hart HyattIndiana University

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Two Kinds of Intelligence Jellaludin Rumi

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in a school memorizes facts and concepts

from books and from what the teacher says,collecting information from the traditional sciences

as well as from the new sciences.

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With such intelligence you rise in the world.you get ranked ahead or behind others

in regard to your competence in retaininginformation. You stroll with this intelligence

in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always moremarks on your preserving tablets.

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There is another kind of tablet, onealready completed and preserved inside you.

A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshnessin the center of the chest. This other kind of intelligence

does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,and it doesn’t move from outside to insidethrough the conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainheadfrom within you, moving out.

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Partner Activity:Service Activities in After School Programs

• Read the poem and

Choose a word,

Phrase, or sentence

that speaks

to you.

• Share with a partner.

Ideas to Share:

• Are students aware of this?

• How does my program nurture this in students?

• What can we do to help students embrace this?

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There is another kind of tablet, onealready completed and preserved inside you.

A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshnessin the center of the chest. This other kind of intelligence

does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,and it doesn’t move from outside to insidethrough the conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainheadfrom within you, moving out.

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Workshop Overview

What is Service Learning?

How can service learning connect after school to the school-day curriculum?

What could service learning looklike in my program?

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What is Service Learning?

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Service Learning…

IS…• Based in community;

• Usually coordinated with a school;

• Enhances the academic curriculum;

• Fosters civic responsibility;

• Provides for reflection

IS NOT…• Internships

• Field Experiences

• Episodic or add-on

• Logged service hours

• Only for high school or college students

• One-sided: benefiting only students or only the community

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Quality Service

Learning

Meaningful service

Link to curriculum

Reflection

Diversity

Youth voice

Partnerships

Progress monitoring

Duration and Intensity

National Standards for QualityServiceLearning Practice

(National Youth Leadership Council)

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Understanding Standards for Quality Service Learning

• Choose one of the eight Standards for Quality Service Learning

• Review the description presented• Develop a creative way to teach this

information to the rest of the room (you will have 2 minutes to share)

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Puddle2Park ProjectKindergarteners, 2nd, 5th and 6th GradersColumbus Signature Academy Lincoln CampusColumbus, Indiana

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• 2008 Flood

• City Planner

• Letters to local businesses

• Neighborhood meeting

• Fundraising – Healthy Snack Shack

Spring 2011…1. Continued research2. Planting trees3. Construction of raised beds4. Neighborhood celebration

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Puddle2Park Project:Links to the Curriculum

Social Studies:• Compare neighborhoods in your community and explain how physical

features of the community affect people living there.• Identify ways that recreational opportunities influence human activity

in the community.

Math• Collect and record numerical data in systematic ways.• Represent, compare, and interpret data using tables, tally, charts, and

bar graphs.

Science• Use tools to investigate, observe, measure, design, and build things.• Draw pictures and write brief descriptions that correctly portray key

features of an object.

Language Arts• Write a friendly letter complete with the date salutation, body, closing

and signature.• Write and deliver a research report that has been developed using a

systematic research process.

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Student ProducedFilm Festival12th GradersFranklin Community High SchoolFranklin, Indiana

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Select TopicConduct

research and interviews

Shoot Footage Edit Film Screen Films

8-Month Film Festival Process

2011 Film Topics…

• A 27-year old mother who fights her way out of poverty by attending nursing school.

• A local teacher who must adapt to increasing budget cuts.

• An Indianapolis-based baseball player, who after nine years in the minor leagues, gets his call-up to the big leagues.

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Student Produced Film FestivalLinks to the Curriculum

Journalism• Students write news stories, features stories and columns, in-depth

issue features, reviews, and editorials or opinions in print and media

• Students demonstrate an understanding of the research, organizational, and drafting strategies in journalistic writing processes.

• Students use principles, elements, tools, and techniques of media design to analyze, navigate, and create effective, aesthetically pleasing media formats

• Radio Technology• Explain the functions of video equipment: 1. Camera, 2. Audio, 3.

Lighting, 4. Editing (linear/non-linear), 5. Studio Control switcher, audio board, character generator, etc.

• Operate equipment in a professional manner.

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How can you integrate service learning & 21st Century Learning intoyour afterschoolprogram?

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21st Century Learning Framework

• Core Subjects & Interdisciplinary Themes– Global Awareness– Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial

Literacy– Civic Literacy

• Learning & Innovation Skills• Information, Media and Technology Skills• Life & Career Skills

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Graffiti Wall Activity:Service Activities in After School Programs

• Choose 1 or 2 21St Century Learnings.• Note what you already do to foster

these learnings.• Brainstorm new ideas for other

components.

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After School Programs and Service Learning: a Natural Fit

Service Learning

Relevant Academic Standards

Youth Voice

Partnerships

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What are my next steps?How can I transform current

programming into service learning ?

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Service Learning Points of Entry

Start with student-identified needs.

Transform an existing program activity into authentic service-learning.

Connect or extend a required curriculum standard, content, or skill, into service.

Partner with a community-based organization to identify local assets and needs.

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Graffiti Wall Activity - Revisited:Service Learning Points of Entry

Revisit your ideas to foster SL standards and 21st Century Learning and share with the group. Decide which point of entry works best for you.

Refer to Quality

Standards for Service

Learning

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Service Learning Resources

1. Service-Learning Clearinghouse http://www.servicelearning.org/

2. National Youth Leadership Council http://www.nylc.org/

3. Youth Serve America http://ysa.org/

4. Generation On http://www.generationon.org/

Aligning After School Programming with the

School Day through

Service-Learning

Cate Hart HyattIndiana University