The curriculum exemplars that we showcase here have been contributed by educators in the field and make use of service-learning as a teaching strategy, while incorporating the principles and practices of place-based education, and education for suustainability

Many were originally featured in Community Works Journal, or in Connecting Service-Learning to the Curriculum.


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Featured Exemplar City Hearts: Reaching Inner City Youth through the Arts City Hearts: Kids Say Yes to the Arts is an Arts enrichment program in Los Angeles County that was founded by Sherry and Bob Jason in 1984. City Hearts hires teachers from Los Angeles’ Arts community to teach dance, acting, circus arts, musical theatre, Shakespeare, singing, crafts, and photography free to the community's most impoverished children. More
Elementary and Middle: Grades K-8	Curriculum Projects & Site Plans from CW Summer Institutes 2003-09 –COMING SOON
High School: Grades 9-12	Reflections from Educator Participants from Community Works' Reflection Writing Retreats at Shelburne Farms
Higher Education & K-16 Partnerships	Professional Development Experiences

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