The Complete Guide to Service Learning is the go-to resource in the fast-growing field of service learning. It is an award-winning treasury of service activities, community service project ideas, quotes, reflections, and resources that can help teachers and youth workers engage young hearts and minds in reaching out and giving back. Author, and internationally known service learning expert, Cathryn Berger Kaye presents service learning—its importance, steps, essential elements, and challenges—within a curricular context and organized by theme. This new revised and updated second edition maintains the easy-to-use format of the original and is enhanced to reflect the most up-to-date information on service learning programs and pedagogy.

Benefits include:

• A blueprint for service learning, from getting started to assessing the experience
• Integration of K–12 service learning standards new!
• Inspiring quotations, background information and resources, preparation activities, real-life examples and community service project ideas that have worked for other teachers
• 13 thematic chapters (including 2 new themes) covering topics commonly selected for service learning projects:
  • AIDS Education and Awareness
  • Animal Protection and Care
  • Elders
  • Emergency Readiness new!
  • The Environment
  • Gardening
  • Healthy Lives, Healthy Choices new!
  • Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty
  • Immigrants
  • Literacy
  • Safe and Strong Communities
  • Social Change: Issues and Action
  • Special Needs and Disabilities
• Hundreds of real-life field-tested service learning projects, including dozens of new projects
• Ideas for fortifying service learning programs by incorporating global literacy and creating a culture of service new!

• All of the planning and tracking forms from the book, many customizable 
• 39 sample planning templates for all service learning themes at each grade level
• 10 original essays written by experts in the field
• More than 300 additional book recommendations
• 22 author interviews, including new interviews with authors Laurie David, Allan Stratton, Cynthia Lord, Jordan Sonnenblick, Tony Johnston, Kathe Koja, Danica Novgorodoff, Dana Reinhardt, Janet Tashjian, Deborah Ellis, Sonia Levitin, Ellen Senisi, and more!

“Bookshelf” sections describe hundreds of books that offer teachable moments about community service, responsibility, caring, and helping, as well as ways to encourage discussion and make the lesson last. Each of the more than 300 annotated book listings helps combine literature and service learning.

Drawing on her years as a classroom teacher and international service learning consultant, trainer, speaker, and program developer, Cathryn Berger Kaye tells you everything you want and need to know about service learning.

Recommended for K–12 teachers and administrators, college and university faculty, youth group leaders, government agencies and nonprofits, and after-school programs.

Teachers, parents, and group leaders: Use this valuable resource in a classroom or youth-serving organization, after-school program, or as a family. It can be used on its own or in conjunction with A Kids’ Guide to Hunger & Homelessness, A Kids’ Guide to Helping Others Read & Succeed, A Kids’ Guide to Protecting & Caring for Animals, and A Kids’ Guide to Climate Change & Global Warming.

	Downloads from The Complete Guide to Service Learning  Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: What is Service Learning? Five Stages of Service Learning K–12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice

Articles by Cathryn Berger Kaye

“Service-Learning: The Time Is Now,” from Middle Ground magazine, the magazine of middle level education.

“Get Involved! 20 Great Ways Your Family—Even the Littlest Members—Can Volunteer Together,” from Nick Jr. Family Magazine. 

 

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	Common Core The Complete Guide to Service Learning is used globally to assist in developing engaging teaching methods where students again and again meet and exceed the Common Core State Standards. The process of service learning provides a reliable and practical framework for inquiry, analysis, planning, interdisciplinary thinking, international mindedness, and application of knowledge and skills to meet authentic and verifiable needs. Click here for more information.

“I just had to tell you what a gift your Complete Guide to Service Learning is to any professional in the field of Service Learning. I use it in a variety of ways, and am never disappointed. It has all the elements needed to help someone lay the foundational blocks for a well-constructed program. The lesson plans are handy, concise and manageable.” —Jini Loos, Director, Service Learning Resource and Volunteer Center, The Haverford School

"Cathy Berger Kaye’s The Complete Guide to Service Learning addresses civic and character education and service learning all in one work, at a time when renewing the civic mission of schools is becoming more urgent." —John Minkler, Ph.D., author of Active Citizenship, Empowering America’s Youth, and Teacher Tools for Civic Education and Service-Learning, with Don Hill

“We use The Complete Guide to Service Learning throughout our school district. It’s not just sitting on a shelf. A beginner can read this book and start tomorrow. An experienced practitioner can read it and get something new. And an expert can read it and say, ‘Wow, I hadn't thought about that.’ Now that is a comprehensive book!” —Kim Huseman, Service Learning Coordinator, Quest High School, Humble, Texas, National Service-Learning Partnership Board Member