Learn & Serve Texas
The Learn and Serve Texas grant is designed to support sustained implementation of service-learning in public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools in Texas. In 35 communities across the state, subgrantees are using the LEADERS model of service-learning and the K-12 Standards of High Quality Service-Learning to:
- Develop and maintain community partnerships that provide opportunities for student service-learning activities and student civic and academic engagement;
- Engage young people in service-learning activities that directly address community needs in order to build healthier communities;
- Increase civic and academic engagement of participating students as measured by pre- and post-surveys, attendance rates, discipline referrals, and promotion rates;
- Expand high-quality service-learning into more K-12 schools, particularly those with large numbers of youth in disadvantaged circumstances, as a strategy to improve retention and graduation through increased civic and academic engagement;
- Increase the number and percentage of teachers who use service-learning to meet educational goals;
- Engage young people in service-learning activities related to the Martin Luther King, Jr., national Day of Service (www.mlkday.gov) on the third Monday in January; and
- Sustain and institutionalize service-learning in participating districts through administrative leadership, supportive policies and practices, and integration with other educational programs and school reform initiatives.
Operated on a three-year cycle (2009-2012) through the Learn and Serve America program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve Texas is managed by Service Learning Texas, a statewide initiative of Region 14 Education Service Center and the Texas Education Agency.
For 2009-2010, 43,174 students and 2,492 staff are participating in service-learning on 195 campuses and in 37 districts through grants to the following organizations:
- Alpine ISD
- American YouthWorks Charter School
- Austin ISD
- Canutillo ISD
- Childress ISD
- Colorado ISD
- Coppell ISD
- Eden ISD
- Friona ISD
- Georgetown ISD
- Haskell ISD
- Hitchcock ISD
- Holland ISD
- Humble ISD
- Irving ISD
- Luling ISD
- Region 10 ESC
- Region 14 ESC
- Round Rock ISD
- Schleicher County ISD
- Shallowater ISD
- Sulphur Springs ISD
Region 10 ESC subgrantees include:
- Bells ISD
- Bonham ISD
- Community ISD
- Leonard ISD
- Lovejoy ISD
- Melissa ISD
- Pottsboro ISD
- Savoy ISD
- Trenton ISD
Region 14 ESC subgrantees include:
- Albany ISD
- Cisco ISD
- Colorado ISD
- Haskell ISD
- Hawley ISD
- Sweetwater ISD
- Trent ISD
- Wylie ISD