New Mexico Centers for Community Service Learning

What is Community Service-Learning?

Community service-learning involves individuals in organized community service that addresses local issues, while developing academic skills, sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community.

 

Service-learning works! Research shows that high-quality service-learning programs benefit students, schools, and communities.

By making community service-learning a core pedagogy within the curriculum and by linking classrooms and community in service-learning projects, community service learning helps create and support environments where “everyone is learning, everyone is serving. Service-learning helps create people who are smarter, more caring and more engaged in civic life – characteristics that are essential to meet tomorrow’s challenges.

 

We can help you connect with experienced service-learning practitioners and resources. Our statewide network of service-learning centers can provide direction and support for educators, students, parents, and community organizations interested in developing or enhancing service-learning programs and projects in your community.

Ask us about training opportunities, project ideas and sample curricula (aligned to New Mexico State Educational Standards and Benchmarks), peer support, and news about events and funding opportunities.

 

 

Are you involved in community-service learning partnerships and programs? Would you like to be? Are you interested in learning more about community service-learning?

Join our ever-growing NM Network of Community Service-Learning Practitioners.

 

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Network members share information about: New and on-going community service-learning programs in New Mexico, in the nation and around the world; Service-Learning events, gatherings, training, and conferences; Funding opportunities; Latest research on effective service-learning practices and outcomes.

What is Community Service-Learning? Community service-learning involves individuals in organized community service that addresses local issues, while developing academic skills, sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community.

Service-learning works! Research shows that high-quality service-learning programs benefit students, schools, and communities.

For more information on how to become part of Community Service-Learning in New Mexico, please contact Wendy Wintermute, Training and Organizational Development Director at:  wendy@nmforumforyouth.org

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