Learn and Serve America is a national grants program that supports K-16 educators and community members in implementing Service-Learning:
• Service-Learning is a method whereby students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that is conducted in and meets the needs of communities.
• Service-Learning examples include: preserving native plants, designing neighborhood playgrounds, teaching younger children to read, testing the local water quality, creating wheelchair ramps, preparing food for the homeless, developing urban community gardens, starting school recycling programs, and much more.
• Service-Learning helps foster civic responsibility.
• Service-Learning programs improve academic grades, increase attendance in school, and develop personal and social responsibility.
a teaching and learning method in which classroom curriculum is tied to meaningful community service.
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has received federal dollars from the Corporation for National service in order to administer the Missouri Service-Learning Grants Program. Approximately $270,000 will be awarded to Missouri's public schools each year for local service-learning programs.Across the state, 25,000 students and over 1,000 teachers participate in the Missouri Service-Learning grants program, improving their communities while increasing academic achievement.
More information on Missouri Service-Learning, including grant applications may be obtained from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education by contacting:
Missouri Learn and Serve America
Erika Brandl, Supervisor
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
5th Floor, Jefferson Building Building
P.O. Box 480, Jefferson City, MO 65102
Phone: 573 526-5395
erika.brandl@dese.mo.gov
• Service-Learning is a method whereby students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that is conducted in and meets the needs of communities.
• Service-Learning examples include: preserving native plants, designing neighborhood playgrounds, teaching younger children to read, testing the local water quality, creating wheelchair ramps, preparing food for the homeless, developing urban community gardens, starting school recycling programs, and much more.
• Service-Learning helps foster civic responsibility.
• Service-Learning programs improve academic grades, increase attendance in school, and develop personal and social responsibility.