Implementing Service Learning
​SEE provides teachers and students resources and consulting support to implement classroom or school wide service-learning projects.   Many free resources are available on this program website to implement to use (1) planning and implementation skills to help students create meaningful service-learning projects, (2) cooperative work skills to support group collaboration, and (3) reflection skills to promote positive character and project improvements.  Follow the links in the right column to identify resources that support successful service-learning implementation.

Benefits of YES Service Learning
  • Provides students the opportunity to recognize and take responsibility to address needs in their community
  • ​Empowers students with skills such as project planning, cooperative work strategies and reflection
  • Motivates students to engage in learning as it is applied to project work
  • Integrates service and learning​
  • Encourages reflection on personal and team character
  • Provides schools a positive opportunity to recognize student accomplishment
  • Promotes a sense of positive community within the classroom
  • Prepares students for real world work
  • Fits into many academic content subjects (Language Arts/English, History, Social Studies, Health)
  • Encourages students of all abilities
  • Provides opportunity to seek improvement in specific academic needs
  • Improves student engagement and school attendance

Getting Started
To implement a YES project, classes/clubs identify a community need, plan and implement a service-learning project and reflect on their work during and after the project. SEE can be contracted to provide the following:
  • A training workshop to introduce you and your students to service-learning and other concepts and skills that help to plan projects and develop effective and ethical working groups
  • Individual copies of Service-Learning, Planning and Reflection: A Step-by-Step Guide, a resource guide authored by SEE staff. The guide contains planning materials, reflection activities, project tracking forms as well as materials on character development, team-building and decision making.
  • ​Technical assistance and guidance throughout the project
Support
SEE has received funding in the past for the YES program from: The Corporation for National and Community Service through Connecticut’s State Department of Education, Wright Investors’ Service, State Farm Insurance, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, The Greater Area Bridgeport Foundation, The Carolyn Foundation, Webster Bank, The W.T. Grant Foundation, Liberty Bank, Bridgeport Rotary, Bridgeport InnerCity Foundation, Connecticut Assets Network, Community Foundation for Southeast Connecticut and private donors.

​​"Ethics in action creates character."