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Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more. Community & Service small medium large Community and Service Ideas---2011/2012 On-going year long projects for all students, collected by Advisories: Box Tops and Pull Tabs (Ronald McDonald House) Inside School Community and Service Sample Activities Clip and count Box Tops (School earns 10 cents per Box Top, last year’s proceeds helped pay for WEB Summer program) Recycling (expand beyond paper to include alum, glass, plastic) Decorating Hall Bulletin boards and Display cases Trash clean-up—inside and outside School beautification—weeding and watering flower beds Daily Flag raising Student Open House guides Academic peer tutoring---help with Homework Help students Set-up and clean-up for school events (theater/music performances) Dispute resolution—peer mediation New Student Buddies---talk with Suzy Lundquist ESL peer mentors---talk with Mrs. Lundquist or Mrs. Gulyasar Student committee representatives (Site-based, PTA) Canned Food drives Help with Parent Resource Center Adopt an elementary class Adopt a nursing home—birthday cards holiday cards, etc. Cards and letters to service men and women RRISD Clothes Closet—clothes/sock donations Spotlight a teacher/student (announcements, congratulatory notes, etc.) Linus Project (quilts---7th grade project) Transition Advice—create power pt, skit, play, illustrated book of advice for 5th graders from 6th graders Public Service Announcements about school events/community opport Service Learning Web-sites: Integration of academics and service projects Learn and Serve America www.learnandserve.org KIDS Consortium www.kidsconsortium.org National Center for Learning and Citizenship www.ecs.org/nclc National Service-Learning Clearinghouse www.servicelearning.org Service Learning Texas www.servicelearningtexas.org What Kids Can Do www.whatkidscando.org Youth HandsOn Network www.childrenforchildren.org Youth Service America www.ysa.org National Service-Learning Partnership www.service- learningpartnership.org The Service-Learning Providers’ Network www.slprovidersnetwork.org www.servicelearningtexas.org --- operates in collaboration with TEA and is the statewide initiative of Education Service Center Region 14- --explains "What is Service Learning", "Why do it", and "How Do I do It". Has a good Teacher Resources list. www.servicelearning.org/slice --- Data base of service learning lesson plans and ideas by grade level. There is a specific Middle School category. Record of Community Service Each student will keep a log of community service. These logs will be kept by the Advisory teacher. Each student is encouraged to have 30 hours each school year of community service. Advisory Responsibility: Each advisory will chose their own community and service projects. Community Service logs will be kept in Advisory. Each student is responsible for recording their own hours. Automatically clean input to optimize for the web. Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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