Successful YES Projects

Follow links to read summaries of successful YES projects.
Elementary Schools
  • Beardsley School’s Diversity Day Project [PDF]
  • Beardsley School's "Steeniors" Project [PDF]
  • Cardinal Sheehan 21st Century After-School Literacy Project (2nd & 3rd grade) [PDF]
  • Doolittle Exploratorium  [PDF]
  • Doolittle Elementary CureChief Project (5th grade) [PDF]
  • Hockanum Elementary Special Needs Mentors (5th grade)[PDF]
  • Hockanum Organic Garden (4th & 5th grade) [PDF]
  • Roosevelt Responsible Rockers' Garden Project [PDF]
  • Wapping Elementary School Food Drive (4th grade)[PDF]​
Elementary student interviewing local senior for biography writing project and intergenerational community connection.
Books of Hope writing project collaboration between middle school and primary students
Middle Schools
  • Bridgeport Public Schools Books of Hope [PDF]
  • Multicultural Magnet School Literacy Project (5th-8th grade)[PDF]
  • West Side Middle School Senior Biographies[PDF]
  • Wintergreen Magnet Creates Care for Cats [PDF]
  • Wolcott Middle School’s Character Counts Club [PDF]
​High School
  • Common Ground High School Spanish Class Bios of Caribbean Immigrants [PDF]
  • Common Ground's Mobile Museum [PDF]
  • Cooperative Arts & Humanities No "N" in High School [PDF]
  • Eli Whitney Technical Care Blankets for Hospitalized Adolescents [PDF]
  • Harding High Outreach to Homeless [PDF]
  • High School in the Community (two projects) Elementary Tutoring and Support of Homeless Shelter [PDF]
  • Lauralton Hall Environmental Awareness [PDF]
  • James Hillhouse High Convenience Store [PDF]
  • Milford Alternative Program Environmental Restoration [PDF]​
  • New Haven’s Off-Campus-Classroom Civics Project [PDF]​
Pottery art display display of bowls that were sold and proceeds donated to local food kitchen.
  • Riverside Academy’s “Majestic Minds” Art Gallery [PDF]
  • SASL (Student Activists for Service Learning) Youth Philanthropy Board  [PDF]
  • Shelton High School’s Technical School Fair [PDF]
  • Student Activists for Service Learning [PDF]
  • Trumbull Alternative Hunger Project [PDF]
  • West Haven High School’s Academic Integrity Committee [PDF]
  • Wilbur Cross High School's Gear-Up Project [PDF]
Stories from other Service-Learning Programs
Mixed Grades
  • Seckman High School's Books of Hope [PDF]
  • Moral Action through Story Telling, from Project Wisdom, Syracuse, NY [PDF]
Elementary School Projects from Character.org Promising Practices
  • Filling the Pantry, PreK project from Don Earl Early Childhood Center, Arnold, MO [PDF]
  • Starting Service with Lit, PreK-3 from Lawrenceville Elementary, Lawrenceville, NJ [PDF]
  • Peacemakers, K-5 from North Boulevard School, Pompton Plains, NJ [PDF]
  • Bus Buddies, Upper Elem from Hebron-Harman Elementary, Hanover, MD [PDF]
  • Student Council for Service, 4-6 from Mill Pond School, Westborough, MA [PDF]
  • Friending Foster Students, K-6 from George Guffey Elemetary, Fenton, MO [PDF]
Middle School Projects from Character.org Promising Practices
  • Character Council, from Ridgewood MS, Arnold, MO [PDF]
  • WEB Mentoring, from Ankeney MS, Beavercreek, OH [PDF]
  • Environmental Service Learning, from Lake Riviera MS, Brick, NJ [PDF]
  • Project T.E.A.M. Tech, Teens teaching seniors technology, from Seckman MS, Imperial, MO [PDF]
  • Peer Leadership Corps, from Franklin Avenue MS, Franklin Lakes, NJ [PDF]
High School Projects some projects from Character.org Promising Practices
  • Capstone Project, Pine Point School, Stonington, CT [PDF]
  • Service-Learning at Seckman High (Spring 2009). Arnold, MO. Jeff Krutzsch, Sponsor. Key Words: Books of Hope, Clean Streams [video]
  • Student Research Supporting PLCs, from Colonia HS, Colonia, NJ [PDF]
  • Alliance for Service, from Muskogee HS, Muskogee, OK [PDF]
  • Drama in Senior Bios, Students write and perform from bios of local senior citizens, from South Brunswick HS, Monmouth Junction, NJ [PDF]
  • Pathways to Inclusion, Student outreach to students with special needs, from Cranford HS, Cranford, NJ [PDF]
  • Service Learning Fair, from DuPont Manual HS, Louisville, KY [PDF]
  • Government Class Senior Year Project, from West Potomac HS, Alexandria, VA [PDF]
  • Senior Capstone Project, from West Springfield HS, Springfield, VA [PDF]

Contact SEE to learn more about how your school or after-school program can implement a service-learning program.
​"Ethics in action creates character."