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SCHOOL
DISTRICT
STATE
The school leverages
donations from local
businesses. The school
features a service-learning
resource library.
The district provides free
transportation to teachers for
service-learning activities. The
district features a servicelearning
library.
The state donates equipment, a
resource library, facilities, and
part-time staff to support
service-learning.
The school hosts parents, senior
citizens, and college students as
regular volunteers who facilitate
project planning and logistics. The
school provides a service-learning
office.
The district organizes volunteer
involvement strategies and seeks out
donations from local businesses. The
district provides a service-learning
office.
The state provides conference
coordination and publishing services
and full-time staff to support servicelearning.
CREATING THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION SYSTEM
Design Process
Parents and other volunteers create a
service-learning advisory board to
organize outreach activities that
leverage continual support for servicelearning.
The district coordinates business and
community partnerships which
sponsor service-learning projects on a
long-term basis.
The state organizes task forces and
committees to connect servicelearning
to all aspects of the
educational system, and publishes
reports on the findings and guides that
show how service-learning is
integrated into the system.
The general way to design an institutionalization process for service-learning is to develop a time line:
(1) Assemble Stakeholders: Who needs to be at the table? It will vary depending on whether it’s a school, district, or state
department of education, but it is important to include “believers” from diverse segments of the community, particularly
decision-makers, practitioners, and students .
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