Service Learning 101 from IBNA Annual Conference San Francisco

Thank you so much for attending my session at the IBNA Annual Conference in San Francisco. In Service Learning 101 you all collaborated to brainstorm service learning project ideas.

Hopefully you'll be inspired to use the PARC method to create a complete unit or lesson plan. If you do, please e-mail me so I can share your plan, reflection and/or photos and we can collectively celebrate your hard work.

Ideas for Future Service Learning Projects:

1) Dirty beaches: beach clean-up, video, reporting

2) Water usage (water unit): commitment (use Taking it Global?), use money saved on bill to buy a well

3) Adopt a child (Language Arts connection): donate $1 to Foster Parents' Plan, write and correspond using Language A or B

4) Shelter Project (Home Ec. Sewing, Technology, Industrial Arts: design and donate clothing to shelters, can also create a donation campaign collecting hotel/toiletries at airports

5) Adopt a school: student voice on what is needed, diaries, tsunami relief, natural disasters6) Interfaith Support/Understanding Group (world history/religion theme)

I hope you're inspired to take service to a new level by connecting it to your curriculum, including student voice and giving students a way to evaluate, reflect and celebrate their efforts.

The big question now belongs to all of us IB educators:

How can we inspire our teachers and students with The Power to Think and the Will to Act?

Maybe some of these projects can be posted on the Sharing Our Humanity site. Take lots of pics ok. I can post them here. Send me your Good Stuff!