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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
Choose
to Make a Difference Poster A wealth
of ways to serve.
Adapted from The Complete Guide to
Service Learning. Laminated.
18" X 24"
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!
An Invitation to
join In Our Global Village.
Click here for more information.
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New Web Site with Examples of Service Learning!
Click here
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HOT OFF THE PRESS!
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.
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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!
Click here for upcoming workshop schedule!
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.
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