Find out about a variety of workshops, seminars and presentations offered by Cathryn Berger Kaye, International Service Learning Consultant.  Click here for upcoming workshop schedule!

New Second Edition
The Complete Guide to Service Learning BOOK with CD-ROM Included!
By Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A., International Service Learning Consultant
An essential, time-saving tool, fully revised and updated at a time when service is in the spotlight The Complete Guide to Service Learning Second Edition is the NEW go-to resource in the fast-growing field of service learning. This award-winning treasury of activities, ideas, quotes, reflections, and resources provides hundreds of annotated book recommendations, author interviews, and expert essays—all presented within a curricular context and organized by theme. This new edition maintains the easy-to-use format of the original and is enhanced to reflect the most up-to-date service learning pedagogy. Benefits of the book include:
• A blueprint for service learning, from getting started to assessing the experience
• Integration of the K–12 Standards for Service Learning
• Thirteen thematic chapters (including two new themes)
• Ideas for incorporating global literacy into service learning,
• Suggestions for creating a culture of service
• Hundreds of real-life field-tested service learning experiences, including dozens of new examples
• Interviews and advice from the field
Included with this book: a CD-ROM containing all of the planning and tracking forms from the book, plus bonus material

Visit the preview of EarthEcho International’s Water Planet Challenge website, an on-line destination that will give youth tools and resources to take action that protects and restores our water planet. Click on Action Tool Kit, and then download CleanUP, a Service-Learning Guide for youth written by Cathryn Berger Kaye. More to come this fall!

Our Healthy Planet 2010-2011 Download this Free Environmental Calendar, a collaboration by students affiliated with the Los Angeles-based Educators Consortium for Service Learning. Make Earth Day EVERY DAY! For information about the calendar, email abcdbooks@aol.com

An Invitation to join In Our Global Village. Click here for more information.

New Web Site with Examples of Service Learning! Click here

Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands by Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A., with Philippe Cousteau and EarthEcho International The latest resource to engage youth in saving our most precious resource water! Get involved, go Blue! More info here.

NEW! By author Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A. The Free Spirit Service Learning for Kids Series Put service learning into students' hands with these exciting, inspiring, get involved workbooks. All are highly interactive kids’ guides to learning and taking action. Easy to use and highly engaging. Titles include: • Climate Change and Global Warming (new!) Details • Protecting and Caring for Animals • Hunger and Homelessness • Helping Others to Read and Succeed Click Here to find out more.

STRATEGIES for SUCCESS with LITERACY a Learning Curriculum that Serves  
By Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A.

Click here to find out more about this innovative research-based approach to engaging students in literacy, character education, and civic engagement through service learning.

For a summary of a study on this program conducted by RMC Research, click here.

For a study conducted by the Los Angeles School District, 2008 implementation, click here.

Free curriculum materials are available to download and use in your programs or classrooms. New Features: Download literature Election Connections. And enjoy many Quotable Quotes. More will be added on a regular basis, so visit often!

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NEW PUBLICATION What is Service Learning? A Guide for Parents available through the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, as part of the Bringing Learning to Life Series. Written by Cathryn Berger Kaye, this 6-page guide provides information on the definition and benefits of service-learning as well as practical steps that parents can take to ensure service-learning is a part of their child’s education. Copies may be ordered or downloaded through the Clearinghouse website. Other resources also available, including the Service Learning In Action Guide, also authored by Cathryn Kaye.

ARTICLES! You can access the following articles written by Cathryn Berger Kaye by clicking below.
Service-Learning: The Time is Now in the National Middle School Association's Middle Ground -- the Magazine of Middle Level Education October 2009.  Many thanks to the National Middle School Association for inviting me to write the article.
Service Learning: An Ideal Strategy to Reach, Teach, and Engage Adolescents on the National Association of Secondary School Principals website, September 2007.
 Spotlight on Service Learning: Service Learning and Literature–Creating a Dynamic, Engaging School Culture, printed in Middle Ground Magazine, October 2006. Many thanks to the National Middle School Association for making this available.
 At MindOh.com read the article Service Learning: Strategies for Developing Character by Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A., featured in the September 2005 e-zine.

Be sure to contact us with your curriculum ideas and comments about how you have used ABCD Books.

Visit the National Service Learning Partnership and read "Cathy's Corner" - an advice column on high quality service-learning practice by Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A.