MAKE IT LAST FOREVER: THE ... - National Service Resource Center

MACHINES POPULAR APPROACH TO
SERVICE-LEARNING
NATURAL SYSTEMS IDEAL APPROACH
TO SERVICE-LEARNING
Simple Teacher introduces service Complex System endorses service
Unidirectional Teachers create projects Multidirectional Students, the community, and
teachers create projects
Linear Teachers receive training Cyclical Training is combined with funding,
mentors, research, and resources.
Waste Introductory service-learning
workshop offered
Growth Multiple sessions on diverse topics
build skills over many years
Dispersed Funding goes to teachers Collected Funding goes to districts
Singular Policy drives the practice Diversified Multiple approaches build capacity
and support for the practice
Disconnected Service is a separate “program” Connected Service is linked to all subjects,
“title” programs, restructuring
efforts, prevention, and vocational
preparation initiatives
The following four pages include diagrams of the categories and how they relate to one another in their support of each
function. Each map shows the core six issues for each function and how some of the peripheral strategies support those categories.
The charts on each page list the primary connections among the categories; while all the categories are to some extent connected, each
one supports and is supported by a few key others. Attention to any one category in isolation from the others creates a vacuum that
ultimately will not achieve the desired outcome of institutionalization. By understanding these dynamics, planners may be able to
manage several partnering strategies simultaneously to achieve the maximum positive effect.
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