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Service Learning, PBL and Boone County Schools

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Boone County School's strategic plan includes a determined investment in service learning and PBL.  Through a district-wide partnership with Children Inc. & the Mayerson Service Learning Initiative, the Boone County School District is engaging all students in service learning experiences. Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Twenty three Boone County teachers are leading service learning as liaisons with the Mayerson initiative. PBL is project/ problem/ passion based learning. Our goal is for every student to be engaged in at least one PBL experience each semester.  It is an approach in which students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire a deeper knowledge.  PBL Pioneer teachers have been trained throughout the district by the Buck Institute.  Both service learning and PBL encourage students to solve problems in meaningful ways that are connected to learning. 


Service Learning

According to leading service learning expert Cathryn Berger Kaye, the 8 standards for service learning include:

  1. Meaningful service
  2. Link to curriculum
  3. Reflection
  4. Diversity
  5. Youth voice
  6. Partnerships
  7. Progress monitoring
  8. Duration and intensity

Exemplary projects...

New Haven Elementary was awarded the prestigious Jefferson Award for a shoes for kids project that has had a profound impact in their community and in the world...
Below are photos from a Burlington Elementary Service Learning Project. They did research by going to the aquarium, zoo, and Thomas More Field Station. They chose an animal in their specific habitat and wrote a paragraph about it to post in the second grade hallway. They also created tri-folds on what the problem is and how they can solve it by educating their parents/guardians. 
Conner High School Ride With Us Project

PBL

The Buck Institute established 8 standards for PBL:

  1. Key knowledge, understanding and success skills
  2. Challenging problem or question
  3. Sustained inquiry
  4. Authenticity
  5. Student voice and choice
  6. Reflection
  7. Critique and revision
  8. Public product
Link to the 8 PBL standards: http://bie.org/about/what_pbl

Exemplary projects...

PBL at Erpenbeck Elementary!
Mann Elementary started "Mann Genius Hour".  It is phenomenal.  
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Community Resources & Experts

Joanne Mittenzwei - Local retired electrical engineer and master gardener
Cincinnati Observatory - Katie Vaughn, Outreach Educator, 513-321-5186 ext. 7, katie@cincinnatiobservatory.org
Graphic Designer Stephanie Burger is local North Pointe Elementary parent bluburgcreatives@gmail.com
NASA's Digital Learning Network is REALLY supportive of education, so you could probably contact them if you were looking to talk to someone in a specific job field.
Adam Helbig
330-414-8913 
adam.helbig@me.com
Area of expertise: computer programming, educational technology, entrepreneurship and functional consulting 
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  • Home
  • About
  • Student Interns
    • Meet our Student Interns
    • Student Internship Projects
    • Become An Intern
  • Virtual Learning
    • Additional Resources for NTI
    • PLTW
    • Activities @ Home
  • MakerExpo
  • More
    • Contact
    • Directions
    • Volunteers
    • Calendar
    • Impact, Data & Class History
    • Maker Resources & Links
    • HelpUs >
      • Volunteer
      • Donate
      • Provide A Problem For A Maker
    • Service Learning & PBL
    • Why STEAM?
  • Activities
    • 3D Paper Snowflakes
    • Glowing Ghosts