Service Learning, Educating the Heart

I have seen service learning turn at-risk youth into contributing, giving, happy citizens who have a solid set of values and are ready to pursue college or career success. Service Learning is a set up for success in many ways.
Here are a few:

The great feeling that just comes from doing something good for someone else (increased self-esteem)
The perspective that just comes from seeing others that are more needy in some way than you (insight),
The learning that just comes from creating a project and following it through (task completion, life skills, reading, writing, math, speaking, etc). Read more