Service-learning engages students in the educational process by encouraging them to apply their learning to solve real-life problems. From individual efforts to school-wide projects, they are learning inside and outside of the classroom, creating mentoring programs, improving the environment, and tackling other community issues. And, by seeing the work they do benefit those around them, they become actively contributing citizens and community members.

Whether the goal is academic improvement, leadership development or both, students acquire valuable skills:

• Critical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Civic responsibility
• Public speaking
• Vocational and computer skills
• Scientific method
• Research and analysis

Learn and Serve America can help you develop a service-learning program in your school.

• What is Service-Learning
• How Learn and Serve America Can Help Your Organization

Additional Educator Resources

Learn and Serve America has developed and collected thousands of tools and resources to help you incorporate service-learning into your lesson plans and activities. 

• K-12 How to Get Started Kit
• More K-12 resources from The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse 
• Higher Education Resources From The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• Tribal service-learning resources from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• Additional Tools, Training, and Information