Get Started with Service-Learning Workshops: Summer/Fall 2008
At New Reduced Rates!

To start a KIDS service-learning project in your school or community, join us at one of our upcoming trainings in Maine and around New England.

SPECIAL Reduced Registration Fee: $40 per person -

a $60 savings!

Includes lunch, KIDS As Planners Guidebook 2nd edition, tools and resources, and contact hours certificate. Sign up early! Limit of 20 participants per workshop. 

Objectives of the Get Started with Service-Learning Trainings:

• To understand the difference between the KIDS model of service-learning and other community-oriented educational experiences
• To understand the importance of community partners
• To learn about a variety of service-learning projects (i.e. health, environment, hunger, etc.) and see the benefits of service-learning
• To learn the steps in a KIDS service-learning project

August 19	Bangor, ME - Cole Land Transportation Museum
September 9	Presque Isle, ME - University of Maine at Presque Isle
September 23	Springfield, MA - Technical Community College
September 24	Portland, ME - University of Southern Maine
September 25	Bangor, ME - Cole Land Transportation Museum
October 1	Montpelier, VT - Woodbury Community College
October 2	Skowhegan, ME - Skowhegan Community Center
October 7	Conway, NH - Salyards Center for the Arts
Register with Credit Card / Register with PO/Check Registration Deadline is two weeks prior to each scheduled training date.

 

About the Maine Workshops:

Maine workshops will focus on the revised Learning Results and social studies standards on civic action and service-learning. Following each workshop, we will hold a FREE one-hour information session for educators, community groups and parents interested in working with students and teachers on projects.

We gratefully acknowledge our sponsors for their support:

• The Robert and Dorothy Goldberg Charitable Foundation
• The Cole Land Transportation Museum
• Maine Community Foundation
• Maine Office of Substance Abuse
• Maine Department of Education
• Corporation for National and Community Service Learn and Serve America Program
• Simmons Foundation