Are you ready to enhance the academic power of your service-learning instruction? Seeking to increase students’ academic engagement through a project-based learning approach? Interested in helping students become better citizens by involving them in solving critical problems? Take your service-learning practice to the next level with Dr. Sue Root, NYLC Senior Academic Fellow and Service-Learning by Design author in this 14-week asynchronous online course offered in partnership with Augsburg University’s Education Department. Backward design is an approach to service-learning which yields more powerful student learning. It’s what we use in schools — because we know it works. Now we want you to know what we know.  Participants will: Develop a standards-based service-learning unit plan including inquiry, problem-solving, and citizenship skills; Design authentic formative and summative assessments for service-learning; Build strategies for strengthening academic and civic learning throughout a service-learning unit, including literacy learning; and  Understand how to incorporate students into the development and implementation of service-learning unit. K-12 teachers, both...

Join NCAN as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary at our first ever virtual conference, Marching Toward Equity! We hope you’ll attend this event to learn from your peers, network in one-on-one and small group virtual environments, and hear from plenary speakers such as: Trabian Shorters, author, social entrepreneur, and leading authority on Asset-Framing Kim Hunter Reed, Ph. D., Commissioner of Higher Education in Louisiana Ava Dejoie, Secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission Presentation of the Evergreen National Education Prize Now more than ever, you need to be able to meet the needs of your students. Register today to build the skills you need to help your students achieve their dreams of attaining a postsecondary degree.