2016 Service-Learning Leadership Seminar: Level 1

Partnerships Make A Difference has once again received a grant from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation to help expand the base of trained service-learning practitioners in interested schools in central Ohio. As a result, we are offering the 2016 “Growing Together” Service-Learning Leadership Seminar: Level 1, which is designed to strategically promote excellent teaching.

2016 Service-Learning Leadership Seminar: Level 1 Details/Registration 

OVERVIEW
Click here for complete course details. The seminar will meet 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on July 25, 26, and 27, 2016 (coffee, etc. available at 8:30 a.m.). Four required follow-up sessions will be held September 7, October 12, November 9, and December 7(4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.). Participants will have an option of 2 or 3 semester hours of graduate credit through Ashland University or CEU credit.

REGISTRATION NOW!
Click here for the registration form. Registration is limited to 40 participants. If interested, please complete and submit the online registration form as soon as possible. Please contact Kathy Meyer or Ellen Erlanger, info@partnershipsmakeadifference.org, 614.323.3741 (Kathy), or 614.226.2115 (Ellen), with any questions.

Course Handouts

Video Resources

Click here to find descriptions and links for the following videos:
  • The Memory Project
  • Learning in Deed: Mural Project
  • Learning in Deed: Kindergarten Project
  • Stand Up 2 Cancer
  • Ryan Rings His Bell
  • Cells Gone Wild
  • Blankets Tell the Story
  • Hastings et Haïti . . . La Joie de Jouer /The Power of Play
  • The Restaurant Project
  • Media Saves the Beach
  • Paper Clips

Teachers Talk About Service-Learning and Participation in the Level 1 Course (2014)

Calendar

2015
July 27, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm (coffee beginning at 8:30 am): Class session (Upper Arlington High School, 1650 Ridgeview Road, Upper Arlington, 43221, in the cafeteria)
July 28, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm: Class session (Upper Arlington High School, 1650 Ridgeview Road, Upper Arlington, 43221, in the cafeteria)
July 29, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm: Class session (Upper Arlington High School, 1650 Ridgeview Road, Upper Arlington, 43221, in the cafeteria) 
September 9, 4:30 to 7:30 pm: Class session (All remaining class sessions will be The Graf Center, 2020 Builders Place, Columbus, OH, 43204.)
October 14, 4:30 to 7:30 pm: Class session 
November 11, 4:30 to 7:30 pm: Class session 
December 9, 4:30 to 7:30 pm: Class session 
December 16, 4:30 to 7:30 pm: Make-up session in case of snow day 

To Do List

Service-Learning/PBL Project Planning Notes (required)
"Life Portrait" Reflection Activity (required)
Reading Reflection (required for 3 semester hours credit. You may reflect upon either pp. 81-93 (service-learning research findings) or pp. 107-118 (reflection resources) in your notebook.)
​Padlet Reflection re. "Paper Clips" movie. Go to website: http://padlet.com/kathy9524/service, and use password: Service. (not required)
July 27, 28, and 29 class sessions will be held at Upper Arlington High School, 1650 Ridgeview Road, Upper Arlington, 43221
September 9, October 14, November 11, and December 9 class sessions will be held at The Graf Center (Upper Arlington Schools), 2020 Builders Place, Columbus, OH, 43204