Compassionate Leadership Through Service Learning

Join us for an action-oriented online teacher professional development course! This course will teach participants how to identify and implement a local service-learning campaign using the Roots & Shoots program model. The service learning curriculum equips participants with teacher resources to discover the differences between service-learning and community service, and apply the Roots & Shoots model to help youth have a voice in identifying and addressing needs in their community. At Roots &

• Identify differences between traditional, project-based, community service, and service learning
• Interpret integration of Roots & Shoots into lessons and curricular goals
• Demonstrate use of Roots & Shoots four-step process to address community needs
• Summarize characteristics of compassionate leadership