“Anytime we can make a learning experience come alive for students in an authentic way, we give students the message that the things they learn in school are relevant, important and transferable. This opportunity for our students to lead an initiative and get floor time from high level stakeholders is a life changing event. Through the Service Learning Project, students are empowered to take an active role in being the change they wish to see. It doesn’t get any better than this!”

Melanie Savio, 4th Grade Teacher

“It felt amazing for someone to think that we were mature enough to solve a problem in our community. At the end, we were very bold and very independent. And I think service learning really changed us.”

SLP Student, 3rd grade

“SLP students learned, in the most real-world terms, that active learning can make change in their schools, their communities, in their own lives. What an exciting realization, one that I firmly believe will inform their world-view well beyond the fifth grade.”

Rachel Cohen, Parent