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Community Service-Learning Council Agenda 11/8/10

Community Service-Learning Council Agenda 11/8/10. Ice Breaker Training element: Duration and Intensity District Themes MLK Day Communicating to Each School Wiki. Ice Breaker Processing. “Keep Your Balance” What strategies did you use to stay balanced? Focus on a stable point= goal

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Community Service-Learning Council Agenda 11/8/10

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  1. Community Service-Learning Council Agenda 11/8/10 Ice Breaker Training element: Duration and Intensity District Themes MLK Day Communicating to Each School Wiki

  2. Ice Breaker Processing “Keep Your Balance” • What strategies did you use to stay balanced? • Focus on a stable point= goal • What happens if your point of reference shifts or becomes unstable? • Struggling to keep your balance can be exhausting. • How do you achieve balance in your life?

  3. Duration & Intensity Goal: Real and Lasting Impact • Sufficient duration and intensity need during each core components • investigate, prepare, act, reflect, demonstrate and celebrate, and sustain. • All the elements in place for service and learning outcomes. • Typically takes concentrated blocks of time across several weeks or months.

  4. Questions to Consider During Each Stage of CSL 1. Investigation • Have you focused enough time on investigating priorities so that you have confidence that the service you provide will be meaningful and have the desired impact? 2. Preparation • Is adequate time set aside to accomplish the service goals and to complete the other components of the service-learning process? • Is the project significant enough in duration and intensity to have a real impact in the community and in the lives of participants?

  5. Questions to Consider During Each Stage of CSL 3. Action • Are participants spending enough time engaged in service that they are able to make a meaningful contribution? • Does the service activity continue across a period of several weeks or months in order to achieve service and learning outcomes? 4. Reflection • How much time is needed to fully reflect on the service experiences?

  6. Questions to Consider During Each Stage of CSL 5. Demonstration/Celebration • How are celebration and recognition activities planned to be proportionate to the project’s level of duration and intensity? 6. Sustain • How will you build greater and greater duration and intensity into short-term service-learning efforts? • How will you work to ensure that programs are of adequate duration and intensity for impact while also avoiding burnout or drops in participation?

  7. District Themes/MLK Day • Environment/Green Initiatives • The Elderly • Hunger & Homelessness • Tolerance/Anti-Bullying • MLK Day • Planning across district

  8. Wiki Spaces

  9. Communicating About CSL at Schools • Thoughts/Concerns about CSL at the site-level • What Information is needed for teachers? • Planning a PowerPoint that can be used at each school • Tie-in/Hook for MLK Day?

  10. Upcoming Meeting 12/13/10 Homework • LOOK at the WIKI • Talk to Principal about Having CSL Staff Discussion • Faculty Meeting • CSL Info/101 Optional Meeting

  11. Thank You! “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?” -Martin Luther King

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