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Available from Community Works Press
—In PRINT ONLY—
 Connecting Service Learning to the Curriculum:
A Workbook for Teachers and Administrators
 A planning and evaluation manual for teachers, created by teachers for teachers. The Workbook contains a solid overview of service learning, planning guides (at both the classroom and site level), extensive resource listings and examples of service learning drawn from the field. Now in use by teachers in more than 30 states!
[$29.95 + $4.75 s/h] more info
“This publication conveys so clearly the voices of teachers talking to other teachers; that’s a real pleasure. It not only offers the products of shared work and reflection among teachers, it models it. The Workbook’s message in the medium is: You can do this too.”
Martha Rich, Principal –Thetford Academy
For schools that have never attempted service learning, or thought about integration into the curriculum, the Workbook provides a philosophy and a plan of action. The Workbook is also appropriate for veterans of service learning in prompting a review of best practice.”
Jennifer Hein, Coordinator for Instructional Services –Highland Park, Illinois
“A very valuable resource to use in professional development workshops!”
Robert Bhaerman, Coordinator of K-12 Programs – Corporation for National Service
What Educators Are Saying About the Workbook
 Community Works Journal
is published as a resource for teachers.Community Works Journal actively supports reflective documentation from the field with the intention of making the work of educators available in a shared public forum.The Journal is distributed digitally, regionally and nationally, to individual educators, networks and affiliated organizations. Available for download in PDF format.
“I’m so glad Community Works Journal has managed to survive so many years, especially in these difficult times for small publications...key reasons for its survival are the consistently high quality of the articles and their immediate usefulness to teachers.
This is a resource that truly speaks to teachers with excellent, provocative ideas. I’ve been using articles from it in my own teaching of teachers on the graduate level for some time now and students always find those readings especially helpful. This is an important contribution to those of us who see the classroom and the school as inextricably linked to the life of the community.
Thanks for keeping it going!”
Steve Seidel, Ed.D, Bauman and Bryant Chair in Arts in Education
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Director of Project Zero and Director of the Arts in Education Program
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
 “In recent seminars for education and environment funders on community and place based education, I have highlighted Community Works Journal as one of the best articulations of the work in this new field.
The synthesis of arts, environment, literature and cultural heritage work in the Journal reaches out to all segments of rural and urban communities.”
David Sobel, Director of Teacher Certification
Antioch New England Graduate School
Author of Children's Special Places
Now available on-line at no cost, in PDF format, as a service to the educational community.
[48 pages, 1.6 mgs., low res.] • use our Downloadable Order Form or, call 802-999-9052 or email us
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Written by teachers and accompanied by student work and photos, Community Works Journal, features essays and reflections accompanied by curriculum overviews that highlight the importance of place, service, and sustainability to a relevant and meaningful education.
Patchwork: Stories of Gardens and Community
 Patchwork, a new release from Community Works Press, offers an inspired collection of vignettes that explore the reasons why people choose to garden together in community. The book includes first person oral histories from ten Burlington, Vermont community gardeners representing a diversity of cultural perspectives. Gathered by Beret Halverson, the gardeners' stories are accompanied by photographs taken by Jim Flint. Editor's journal entries and several pages of resources provide a helpful guide for those interested in learning how to start and sustain a community or youth garden.
"Beautiful and moving, these inspiring stories with rich details make one want to run out and start planting!"
Larissa Vigue Picard, Vermont Humanities Council
"The stories in Patchwork illustrate the rich diversity of people who community garden and show the common thread that brings together love of the land, fresh food, and neighbors."
Charlie Nardozzi, National Gardening Association
As people in our world search for community and connections to the land, the stories of Patchwork reflect on the ways in which culture is created and passed down through the medium of gardening. In the words of garden educator Joseph Kiefer, "We all carry our stories but rarely have a chance to share them with anyone who really cares to listen. This book was impossible to put down; it pulled me in like a spring rain on newly planted seeds. Patchwork provides a mirror for the diversity of this garden planet."
more info on Patchwork
 Vital Results Through Service-Learning
A compendium of reasearch based on Vermont schools deeply involved in service-learning, includes research done by The John Dewey Project at UVM and Vermont Community Works. The publication provides hands on examples of service-learning along with a summary valuable to anyone concerned with deepening the role and impact of service-learning.
[$16.95 + $4.75 s/h]
more info on Vital Results
A Learning Experience: The Guilford Gazette – DVD or VIDEO 27 min.
An excellent way to introduce your faculty or community to the possibilities inherent in service-learning.
  This documentary contains a series of poignant interviews describe how a student-published community newspaper has affected the adolescent students and the faculty advisors who create it and the townspeople who look forward to each issue. The film makes a powerful case for the academic and social benefits of service learning experiences. [$24.95 + $4.75 s/h per copy]
more info on A Learning Experience
Community Works can provide support for Publishing with Students
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Produced in partnership with Free Lunch Media
—FREE ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS—
• Site Level Best Practices for Service-Learning [1 page summary*]
• Instructional Best Practices for Service-Learning [1 page summary*]
• Service-Learning & Assessment Guide: A Field Guide for Teachers
A comprehensive guide for assessing service-learning activities. [multi-part format allows selective chapters to be accessed]
• The Brain: Implications for Teaching and Learning
Aristotle was right when he said, “There is nothing in the intellect that has not been in the senses before.” A classroom teacher explores what recent brain research tells us about learning and teaching.
* Included in Connecting Service Learning to the Curriculum:
A Workbook for Teachers and Administrators [see listing above]
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