
Studying History by Studying People: What You Can't Learn in Textbooks
Washington -- Student quotes:
"It is important that people tell their stories. Older people have stories and we can learn a lot from them that we can't learn in textbooks.it opens your eyes to things you're never going to experience." -- Tina Chandler Sophomore Windward High School.
"I used to think that history was a big picture thing. But now I realize that it impacts people differently and when you study history, you are studying people." -- Ryan Greene Sophomore Windward High School. See the complete story.
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Advisors to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse provide sector-specific guidance and expertise to insure a responsive, contemporary, and vibrant NSLC.
John Guffey, Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center, is the NSLC program advisor for Tribal service-learning. Meet the Program Advisors from each sector of our service-learning community. Indian Tribes & US Territories Sector
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| AmeriCorps and Service-Learning See some examples of how AmeriCorps and service-learning interconnect as well as resources to help support AmeriCorps members involved with service-learning. View the page. NSLC’s new Service-Learning = Solutions blog is a new space to discuss the role of service and service-learning in helping our communities through the economic crisis. One contributor muses: "Through this crisis, we are learning how we are all connected and how we must fulfill our responsibilities to promote and protect the common good. Viewing the world through the lens of service will surely facilitate the moral and economic recovery." Share how you believe service and service-learning can play a role. Another contributor notes that there are increasing opportunities for students to engage in meaningful service specifically because of the downturn where "some of our most challenged schools are losing every one of the teacher aides, not to mention the P.E., art, and drama teachers, or the guidance counselors, or the after school program staff that are no longer taking their positions for granted. Our residential adolescent programs and youth shelters are increasingly understaffed. The list goes on."? Share your thoughts about how service-learning can serve such communities in need without being a threat to an already shrinking workforce. Join the conversation. EagleRock School & Professional Development Center Given Award! NSLC's Program Advisor for Indian Tribes and US Territories was named one of 5 national High Flying Schools Sponsored by The National Youth-At-Risk Conference in collaboration with The National Network for Educational Renewal! More information. View all the Tribes and US Territories Highlights | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disasters: Flood & Ice This collection of the memories and insights from the year 2007 by teenagers of Miami, Oklahoma, recalls stories of the "big flood and ice storms of 2007" through photographs, poems, drawings, and personal anecdotes… View Past Featured Library Items | NSLC Tribes & US Territories: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Embracing an Indigenous Understanding of Service-Learning This keynote address by John Guffey at the NWIC Second Summit on Indigenous Service-Learning, focuses on service-learning as a timeless indigenous approach to teaching and learning. Past Voices of Tribes & US Territories Service-Learning. | |||||||||||||||||||||||



