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NON-PROFIT
PERSONNEL:
SCHOOL
DISTRICT
STATE
FUNCTION 3: LEADERSHIP
PHILOSOPHY/
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A non-profit organization uses
its staff to encourage the
district to develop a servicelearning
infrastructure, and
provides training and technical
assistance in the meantime.
The superintendent is
supportive of service-learning.
Non-profit organization staff
provide training, technical
assistance, and materials to
districts and/or links to
existing regional infrastructure
in the state
The superintendent works with the
school board to fund district and/or
cluster coordinators, or integrates such
responsibilities into an existing
position. Curriculum specialists are
involved in technical assistance, and
are trained by the non-profit experts as
trainers in the pedagogy.
The state establishes a servicelearning
steering committee or task
force, uses VISTA members to help
coordinate service-learning, supports
its own professional development staff
in conducting training. The
superintendent supports the Learn and
Serve coordinator.
STAGES OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION
The district and/or cluster coordinators
provide all training and technical
assistance, mini-grants, and
transportation, and leverage in-kind
and other forms of public support for
service-learning. Experience using
the approach is part of the faculty
hiring criteria. District leadership
consistently emphasizes the
importance of service-learning in
achieving academic and community
goals.
The state funds regional or district
coordinators, pays for its own
supervisory personnel, and trains other
state-level staff to integrate servicelearning
into all areas of teaching and
learning. The state provides all
training and facilitates meetings of
district superintendents to expand
service-learning in those districts.
CAPACITY- WIDESPREAD USE SYSTEMIC
BUILDING & SUPPORT INTEGRATION
87