Service-Learning Process and Quality Standards

All Innovation Center service-learning work follows the IPARDC model¹ of implementation.  The model organizes service-learning activities into six stages:

• Investigation: Learn about the issues that your community faces.
• Preparation: Work together to plan a project that tackles one of those issues.
• Action: Use teamwork to implement your project.
• Reflection: Ensure your work adapts to new challenges with continual reflection and learning.
• Demonstration: Share your work with the larger community.
• Celebration: Celebrate your hard work and success to sustain the change.
• Sustain: Make service-learning an integral part of your organization.

Our service-learning work values and reinforces field-recognized quality standards².  Project sites work to incorporate them into their work.

• Meaningful Service
• Link to Curriculum
• Reflection
• Diversity
• Youth Voice
• Partnerships
• Progress Monitoring
• Duration and Intensity

For more information about service-learning, visit our partner, the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.

¹Roehlkepartain, Eugene C. Minneapolis: Search Institute, 2009. National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Web. <http://http://www.servicelearning.org/library/resource/8543>.

²K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. Saint Paul: National Youth Leadership Council, 2008. National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Web. <http://http://www.servicelearning.org/library/resource/7509>.