"Students Teaching Students Mathematics" has been developed collaboratively through a university-county-district-school partnership. Students in the video series come from mathematics intervention classes at Winton Middle School in the Hayward Unified School District. The video production project promotes peer-to-peer mathematics teaching and learning and provides access to an online video library of mathematics lessons taught by students in English (example at left), Spanish, and Tagalog.
The Bay Area Video Coalition's service-learning project documenting Oakland Technical High School's involvement in the establishment of the Martin Luther King Holiday in Calilfornia.
Students from Tennyson High School in Hayward produced a video entitled, "How My School Garden helps Me Grow" describing service-learning in the school's one acre garden.
Science teacher Jeannette Frechou explains her students' involvement in an Earth Day beach clean up through the Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project.
Irvington High School produced a charity fashion show to raise money for One Child. Led by students working on their senior project, the Avidity Fashion Show included Government/Econ, Visual and Performing Arts, and Career/Technical classes.
Featured National Videos
This 8 minute public service announcement from Learn and Serve America explains what service-learning is and how it works by sharing a number of examples from a variety of schools.
Videos from the National Service-Learning Partnership YouTube Channel feature service-learning strories from across the nation.
CATALYST
Statewide Youth Service-Learning Leadership Program
For the past ten years, Youth Service California (YSCal) has sponsored statewide networks of high school leaders to promote youth service at the local, regional, and state level. Funded by the California Department of Education's CalServe Initiative (through a grant from Learn and Serve America), the Shinnyo-en Foundation, and the State Farm Foundation, CATALYST (CAlifornia Taking Action for Learning through Youth Service Teams) pulls together a select team of high school youth from each of California's 12 service-learning regions, provides service-learning and leadership training, and develops youth leadership in the promotion of youth service and service-learning.
During their ambassadorship, CATALYST ambassadors serve as the youth voice for youth service and service-learning in the state of California—locally, regionally, and statewide.
Interested in joining the Youth Advisory Board? Click here.
The State Farm Youth Advisory Board provides grants to support youth led service-learning projects. Grants range from $25,000 to $100,000 and are evaluated by the youth advisory board for how well they utilize service-learning to address:
Are you interested in continuing to participate in service-leanring while in college? The Califonia Campus Compact has produced a map of California universities, colleges and community colleges that engage in high quality service-learning programs. The map and list of participating schools can be viewed here.
Ripple KidsTM was founded on the principle that children can be an amazing resource to help resolve issues in their communities. They have a fresh perspective and unlimited ideas about their world and how to make it better. All they need are the tools and support to make amazing things happen.
Project Heart, Head, Hands (H3) aims to shape capable, caring, socially responsible youth through character education and service-learning.
At the center of H3 is a comprehensive curriculum aligned with California state-adopted language arts texts. Based on the reading selections in the district’s language arts curriculum, H3 integrates a range of classroom learning activities (discussions, role-plays, writing, small-group tasks, etc.) that provide students with opportunities to learn about positive character and prosocial behavior.
Featured elements of the curriculum include social-emotional skill-building lessons to support positive interactions among students and a service-learning component that offers students the opportunity to engage in standards-based community service projects.
The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance engages students, teachers, parents and community menbers in the redesign and rebuilding of traditional school playgrounds into urban green spaces, outdoor classrooms, school gardens, and natural play areas through mulit-year site-based service-learning projects supported by school district and community resources.
The Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project
For more information contact:
Nate Ivy- nivy@acoe.org
Students at Tennyson High School in Hayward created Public Service Announcements that encouraged students to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot. Learn more about Tennyson High School's work at a student produced blog.
The Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project, or SLWRP, is a partnership between StopWaste.Org’s irecycle@school program, the Alameda County Office of Education, and local secondary schools. SLWRP seeks to empower students by increasing their waste reduction knowledge through engaging active learning experiences. Students examine the role they play in generating waste, learn where their waste goes and discover how to respond through practical 4R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle, rot) strategies.
For the past ten years, Youth Service California (YSCal) has sponsored statewide networks of high school leaders to promote youth service at the local, regional, and state level. Funded by the California Department of Education's CalServe Initiative (through a grant from Learn and Serve America), the Shinnyo-en Foundation, and the State Farm Foundation, CATALYST (CAlifornia Taking Action for Learning through Youth Service Teams) pulls together a select team of high school youth from each of California's 12 service-learning regions, provides service-learning and leadership training, and develops youth leadership in the promotion of youth service and service-learning.
Project Heart, Head, Hands (H3) aims to shape capable, caring, socially responsible youth through character education and service-learning. 
Students at Tennyson High School in Hayward created Public Service Announcements that encouraged students to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot. Learn more about Tennyson High School's work at a 