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

Innovative Features: Published on links to school-to-work; youth peer consultants; receive prevention and arts funding;
linked to dropout prevention.
MT: Ophir School Big Sky Joan Traylor
Institutionalization Categories Used: 4
Innovative Features: School-wide environmental and history projects selected by students; school is divided into intergrade
families.
Canyon Creek School Billings Laura Schillinger
Institutionalization Categories Used: 7
Innovative Features: Service-learning advisory council; principal provides leadership; part-time coordinator funded from
different grants.
Plenywood Plenywood Dan Martin
Institutionalization Categories Used: 9
Innovative Features: Acts as regional service learning center; students
created community action plan; students are trainers; is discussed at
principal meetings; linked to vocational education.
NM: Taos Pueblo Day School Taos Pueblo Andy Haimowitz
Institutionalization Categories Used: 14
Innovative Features: School acts as a community center; school maintains 8 long-term service-learning sites; students are
trained in effective service-learning design and implementation; school has done international projects; inter-tribal agency
funding supports the effort.
El Dorado Elementary School Santa Fe Karey Thorne
Institutionalization Categories Used: 9
Innovative Features: School counselor funds used to support coordinator; model/training site of Coalition of Essential
Schools, so service-learning is promoted as part of CES; parents have facilitated some projects.
OK: Purcell High School Purcell Cheryl Pantalone
Institutionalization Categories Used: 3
Innovative Features: Teachers report evidence of impact on performance; block scheduling; financial support from local
banks.
PA:
Simon Gratz High School Philadelphia Janice Steinberg
Institutionalization Categories Used: 10
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