Blog entries tagged service learning experts

All in for Atlanta

Jaymes Pyne — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:11:02 +0100

The National Youth Service Learning Conference is this week (April 6-9) in Atlanta, Georgia and I will be here soaking up as much as I possibly can over the next few days. There are so many great things about being here already, besides the obvious - it's about 20 degrees warmer than Michigan. So far, the Welcome Celebration last night featured good old southern cuisine (succotash, grits, fried chicken, BBQ sandwiches, fried okra) and brought together literally thousands of service learning aRead More...

Service Learning Tips from KIDS Consortium

Jaymes Pyne — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:08:46 +0100

Last week I attended a Learn & Serve - Michigan Service Learning Sustainability Symposium with some colleagues. The symposium was intended for K-12 educators and service learning coordinators, but I was ecstatic to go as a representative from higher education because there was so much great information getting spread around!

Besides, my colleagues and I thought collaborating with teachers in the trenches would also help inform our work with teachers on environmental service learniRead More...

More than Community Service

Jaymes Pyne — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:42:13 +0100

There is some confusion about the definitions of community service and service learning. The term service learning gets thrown around quite a bit, an educational buzz word at times used to describe virtually anything that involves some type of service to the community. But what are the actual differences?

Of course, we should hesitate from looking down our noses at terms other than service learning. Charity and philanthropy for altruistic purposes is a part of American civil society, Read More...

A Day with Cathryn Berger Kaye

Jaymes Pyne — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:32:18 +0100

The Dean of the College of Education at Grand Valley State University holds a Professional Advisory Council (PAC) meeting every two years, inviting superintendants and principals from the tri-county area to help the College of Education with feedback about pre-service teachers. This year’s focus was on service-learning, and as an added bonus, all who participated were able to be a part of a workshop/presentation by international service-learning consultant Cathryn Berger Kaye.

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