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McMahon, Debbie – Childhood Education, 2020
For many educators, the inspiration to teach comes from a desire to make a positive difference in students' lives. As they seek to guide students toward their big goals through trying times, teachers need resources that strengthen social and emotional skills. Facing this very challenge, Allison Silverman, a teacher at Port Chester Middle School in…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Program Descriptions, Social Change, Competition
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Freeman, Charles; Kobia, Caroline – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2016
The purpose of this exploratory investigation is to examine the use of a pedagogical framework to guide the development of a successful service-learning project within a technical program (clothing construction) as determined by increased student engagement and qualitative feedback. This investigation uses student reflection comparisons to assess…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Course Descriptions, Community Involvement, Teacher Attitudes
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Mehta, Khanjan; Zappe, Sarah; Brannon, Mary Lynn; Zhao, Yu – Advances in Engineering Education, 2016
The Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE) Program engages students and faculty across Penn State in the rigorous research, design, field-testing, and launch of technology-based social enterprises that address global development challenges. HESE ventures are embedded in a series of five courses that integrate learning,…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Educational Philosophy, Outcomes of Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Garcia-Contreras, Rogelio; Faletta, Jean-Philippe; Krustchinsky, Rick – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2011
The University of St. Thomas (UST) is a private Catholic liberal arts university in Houston, Texas, whose mission includes a commitment to service. The pedagogy of service-learning aligns well with the school's mission and with the teachings and social doctrine of the Catholic Church. Designed to expand opportunities for the procurement of the…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Church Related Colleges, Catholics, Liberal Arts
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McDonnell, Claire; Ennis, Patricia; Shoemaker, Leslie – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of student learning from community engagement by critically assessing the implementation of this pedagogical approach in the context of teaching and learning chemistry and also evaluating the role of personal development in student-community engagement.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Community Needs, School Community Relationship, Chemistry
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Zusevics, Kaija L.; Lemke, Melissa A.; Harley, Amy E.; Florsheim, Paul – Health Education, 2013
Purpose: Milwaukee has very high rates of risky sexual behavior and low rates of academic achievement among adolescents. Milwaukee school representatives partnered with researchers to create and implement an innovative project-based learning (PBL) high school health curriculum to engage students in school. This health education program, Project…
Descriptors: Attendance, Sexuality, Learner Engagement, Program Effectiveness
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Blanchard, Lynn W.; Strauss, Ronald P.; Webb, Lucille – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill undertook faculty development activities to increase awareness of community-engaged scholarship through campus dialogue and by assisting faculty members in acquiring skills for community-engaged scholarship. This article presents a case report describing activities and their impact. The activities…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Program Implementation, Scholarship
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Goggins, J. – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on a number of initiatives in civil engineering undergraduate programmes at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) that allow students to complete engineering projects in the community, enabling them to learn by doing. Design/methodology/approach: A formal commitment to civic engagement was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study
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Roessingh, Hetty – Canadian Journal of Education, 2012
A model is proposed followed by a case study of collaborative project work between student teachers, teachers and English language learners in kindergarten and grade 1. As a model, service learning provides a framework for making explicit linkages between course-based, credit bearing academic content, the identified need of the community school,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners
Prentice, Mary; Robinson, Gail – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2010
In 2006 the Learn and Serve America program of the Corporation for National and Community Service awarded a three-year grant to the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Selected through a national competition, thirteen colleges participated in AACC's "Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning" grant project.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Majors (Students), College Faculty, Community Colleges
Barnett, Lynn; Jeandron, Carol – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2009
With support from the U.S. Department of Education and advice from an external panel of experts, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) published a book that described disability support practices and programs designed to help community college students with disabilities reach their fullest potential. The book was an outgrowth of a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Programs, Service Learning, Educational Opportunities
Slavkin, Michael; Braysmith, Hilary; Faust, Norma – School-University Partnerships, 2010
The purpose of this article is to review a partnership between a teacher education department and a dropout prevention program. The partnership developed from a variety of communities' needs, no less of which was that of reconnecting marginalized youth at a local dropout prevention school with their community through cultural and civic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Schools of Education, Dropout Programs
Caruso, Robert; Bowen, Glenn; Adams-Dunford, Jane – College Student Affairs Journal, 2006
Why should service learning be placed within student affairs? What special skills can student affairs professionals bring to service-learning program implementation? How can administrators use this program to promote strong student affairs-academic affairs collaboration? This article discusses a "best practices" model that is working…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Program Implementation, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
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Yancy, Dorothy Cowser; Sutton-Haywood, Marilyn; Hermitte, Eugene; Dawkins, Phyllis Worthy; Rainey, Kelli; Parker, Frank E. – Journal of Negro Education, 2008
Learning communities continue to be at the heart of teaching and learning today. The purpose of this study is to examine the extent of the impact of the Freshman Academy/Learning Community program on student progress at a historically Black university. The authors also looked at the extent to which students engaged in their learning as a result of…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Academic Achievement, Service Learning, Active Learning
Porter, Maureen – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2003
This article is based on the author's own strategies to foster community among educators. As a new, young, female junior faculty member in the School of Education at a major research university, the author has struggled to build a strong sense of community in her school. She has also encountered ambivalence about openly expressing…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Service Learning, Communities of Practice, International Programs