SLP Support
For schools and community organizations that prefer to facilitate SLP projects independently, we offer a range of training, technical assistance, and online resources designed to give teachers and staff the tools they need to guide their students through our proven effective model of action civics. We also offer a more intensive coaching option. All SLP support is customized to meet the unique needs of our partners.
What is SLP?
The Service Learning Project (SLP) is an action civics program for elementary, middle, and high school-aged youth. Through our in-school and after-school programs, our students become leaders and agents of positive change in their schools and neighborhoods by working together to help solve social problems of their choice. The students are in charge at SLP – every step of the process is youth-driven – and every final project has a real and profound impact.
1 Training: Fundamentals of SLP
This on-site or remote workshop introduces teachers and staff to the fundamentals of youth-led action civics and to SLP’s five phase model. Topics covered include how to ensure projects are student-driven, how to help young people of all ages make collective decisions, how to build supportive partnerships in the community, and how to ensure students have a real and concrete impact. Partners can choose to extend the workshop to include small group/individual project planning.
2 Training Plus: Fundamentals + Project Strategizing
After providing the introductory workshop described above, SLP can continue to support Partner staff during the course of student projects. Support ranges from email exchanges to telephone/Zoom discussions to on-site troubleshooting and can include:
✓ One-on-one pre-project planning sessions
✓Recommendations of age-appropriate resources to support student research
✓ Connections with potential guest speakers
✓One-on-one troubleshooting sessions during the course of a student project, as needed
3 Coaching
Our most intensive option combines our introductory training and weekly one-on one strategy meetings with a robust set of customized online resources including:
✓ Session guides
✓ Custom built research padlets
✓ Interactive student resources for each phase of a project
What are the support fees?
Fees are determined by the level of support requested, the duration of the partnership, and the number of staff participating.
How to Participate
Interested in SLP Support? Click here to complete our Partner Interest Form or contact us at info@servicelearningnyc.org. We’ll be in touch very soon!