Pennsylvania
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Networks of Support
The Bureau of Community and Student Services provides technical assistance across the Commonwealth in a variety of locations and ways, including workshops, conferences, networking meetings, and in-service programming. The Bureau collaborated with the Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance to operate regional service-learning centers at Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, until PSLA dissolved in 2007. The Pennsylvania Department of Education delivers a wide variety of technical assistance at no cost to local schools and community groups. Service-learning information and technical assistance resources are shared at the PSLA website.
Through the YDSLCs, the schools are also better able to leverage funds. For example, four schools have received $240,000 in federal refugee funds to work with refugee students. Other centers have received character education, special education, alternative education, and School-to-Career grants. Pennsylvania has also recently concluded a CHESP grant where college students assisted in the ongoing development of the YDSLCs. In addition, the fact that the centers are youth-driven helps centers leverage funds through Safe and Drug Free Schools sources.
The PSLA has many useful materials available through its website, including training and evaluation manuals for the YDSLC, curricula designed to meet standards, and assessment strategies. Information about the “Digital Divide Initiative,” a youth-driven initiative to coordinate technology resources and assets for communities, is available on the PSLA website. Students, teachers, schools, community members, and local organizations all contribute to and benefit from the collaboration.
Convening and Celebrating
Pennsylvania hosted the National Service-Learning Conference in 1995 and 2006, both times in Philadelphia.
Policy Support
Although there is no mention of service- learning in Pennsylvania statutes, service- learning some schools and school districts have strong policy support for service-learn- ing. In the Philadelphia school district, for example, a service-learning or multidisciplinary project is required for promotion from grades 3 and 8 as well as graduation from high school. Philadelphia has five YDSLCs in middle schools and high schools and is seeking funding for a sixth.
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Learn and Serve
Both the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Institute for Global Education and Service-Learning receive school-based Learn and Serve grants, totaling $1,347,752. In 2008, higher education grants were also awarded to Pennsylvania Campus Compact, Franklin and Marshall College, and Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. Statewide participation in LSA-funded service-learning is nearly 15,000, through 43 school-based, 3 community-based, and 18 higher education subgrants.
School-based Learn and Serve funds are managed by Dorothy Hershey in the Bureau of Community and Student Services at the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The office provides service-learning subgrants; technical assistance; and training to students, teachers, school administrators, and neighborhood agencies. In the 2005-2006 grant year, the state LSA office awarded four types of subgrants, totaling $161,000.
Four districts received $8,000 New Student Service-Learning Center grants and five received Continuing Student Service-Learning Center grants worth between $18,000 and $25,000. In addition, one district received a $1,500 Start-Up Service Learning Program Grant and three school-level programs received $2500-$3500 Civic Engagement Service Learning Grants.
Youth Contributions
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Examples of Quality Service-Learning
- Pennsylvania Digital Divide Initiative (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Building Healthy Communities in Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
References
- Cairn, Rich, Henning, Anna, and Neal, Marybeth. 2005. "State Profiles" in Growing to Greatness 2005. St. Paul: National Youth Leadership Council.
External Links
Corporation for National and Community Service
- Learn and Serve America in Pennsylvania
- National Service in Pennsylvania (Corporation for National and Community Service)
State Government
- Bureau of Community and Student Services - Learn and Serve America (Pennsylvania Department of Education)
- PennSERVE: The Governor's Office of Citizen Service
Non-Governmental Organizations
- Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance (Now dissolved)
- Institute for Global Education & Service-Learning
- Pennsylvania Campus Compact
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