Lamar Public Library

"Anna is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her grandmother about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's, and beyond a vague hint about an old stone wall, much about that time is a mystery. Thankfully, Martin Nolt, a handsome Mennonite, takes the young Beachy Amish woman under his wing...

This document is meant to be a "how-to guide" for high-quality service-learning. The field of service-learning has grown substantially over the past decade and many excellent resources are now available for teachers, administrators, community members and students that describe not only the "how" of service-learning but ideas for "the what."

When Lety jumps at the chance to write animal profiles for the Furry Friends Animal Shelter, she is forced to team up with a grumpy classmate named Hunter, who devises a contest to decide who gets to be the official shelter scribe.

Learn and Serve Colorado contracted with the Evaluation Center to provide external evaluation services beginning Fall 2006. The evaluation study encompassed the period from November 2006 to August 2007. Previous studies raised questions about the quality of the service learning occurring at sampled schools. In order to make connections between student outcomes and service learning, a measure of the quality of the service learning experience is necessary....