Service Learning engages students in civic responsibility, academic curriculum and social action.  It serves to connect school-based curriculum with inherent caring and concern young people have for their world.

Service learning is a teaching method where guided or classroom learning is deepened through service to others in a process that provides structured time for reflection on service experience and demonstration of the skills and knowledge acquired. The core of service learning is the education of all students regardless of ability level in a successful learning environment.

 Students participate in the process of understanding, integrating, and applying knowledge from various subject areas as they work to improve their communities. Service learning develops leaders who take initiative, problem-solve, work as a team, and demonstrate their abilities while helping others.  Students make decisions that have real results while gaining a deeper understanding of themselves, their community and society.

Types of service learning include:

• Direct service:  Students' service directly affects and involves the recipient


• Indirect Service: Indirect activities do not provide service to individuals but benefit the community or environment as a whole


• Advocacy:  The intent of advocacy is to create awareness of or promote action on an issue of public interest


• Research:  Students find, gather, and report on information in the public interest