Service Learning, Educating the Heart

Guest post by Willyn Webb


I have seen service learning turn at-risk youth into contributing, giving, happy citizens who have a solid set of values and are ready to pursue college or career success.  Service Learning is a set up for success in many ways.  
Here are a few:  

• The great feeling that just comes from doing something good for someone else (increased self-esteem)
• The perspective that just comes from seeing others that are more needy in some way than you (insight),
• The learning that just comes from creating a project and following it through (task completion, life skills, reading, writing, math, speaking, etc).  

My recent ed chat with the group Do It Yourself Learning / Homeschooling / Unschooling / Uncollege made it clear how easy service learning can be.  Regardless of the age, skills, or learning/school choice of the involved students, you can just start with just a few simple questions:  

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