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

Massachusetts: has substantial state funding based on 1993 legislation; sponsors regional practitioners network; conducts conference
and topic-specific workshops annually; supports experienced sites with expansion grants; has trained service-learning trainers; many
districts have full-time coordinators; surveyed all superintendents about service-learning use.
Minnesota: is Learning In Deed pilot state; service-learning examples are matched with content standards; supports peer consultant
network; has state levy to support youth development and service; most districts have coordinators; has linked service-learning to
school-to-work legislation and funding; has five statewide networks (practitioners, youth, staff development, policy, and change
agents); has statewide advisory council (department and legislative officials); youth must help write and sign all local Learn and Serve
grant applications; local applicants must also have youth on advisory council; has major non-profit organization.
Montana: sponsors regional centers to provide technical assistance and outreach; connected service-learning to school-to-work;
leveraged State Commission funds for professional development; linked service-learning to Title I.
New Mexico: uses and funds regional centers to provide technical assistance, many of which have been coordinated by
VISTA members; has used Goals 2000 funds to train over 10% of the state’s teachers; sponsors annual youth leadership camps with
state allocation; has two major non-profit organizations; has developed and disseminated topic-specific curricula and offered trainings
on their use; has received legislative funding.
Oklahoma: has regional network; has used VISTA members regionally to provide technical assistance and facilitate cross-stream
projects; publishes monthly newsletter; grantees receive 3 trainings annually; has used Title I funding for training; has 70 local youth
leadership councils; has used State Commission’s Unified State Plan to support training and technical assistance; uses Promise
Fellows and VISTA members as state administrators.
Rhode Island: service-learning is featured in many districts’ state-mandated strategic plans; districts which mandate service-learning
are required to submit a plan to SDE; sent service-learning survey to every school; conducted training as a method of contextual and
experiential learning; has major private philanthropic support; service-learning is written into vocational education program.
South Carolina: is Learning In Deed pilot site; passed three legislative initiatives linking service-learning to school-to-work, early
childhood development, and accountability; service-learning is linked to district plans and school renewal plans; uses state funding,
and United Way donates two employees; published a book on service-learning and character education; has linked service-learning to
rural education association activities; has trained districts how to link service-learning to strategic plans; has written four publications
for pre-service programs at several colleges of education; has used service-learning ambassadors.
Texas: has major non-profit organization conducting activities on behalf of DOE; uses regional centers; uses VISTAs to provide
technical assistance; produced video series for cable television on service-learning and educational standards; training is required for
subgrantees to get grants; sponsored own ambassadors network; developed service-learning listserv; has trained state Title IV
coordinators, who have then trained their own local coordinators; service-learning is prerequisite for gifted and talented teacher
certification.
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