January 6, 2011 – 7PM (PST) EducationNow! welcomes the return of Katy Farber for a discussion on her new book: “Change the World with Service Learning”.  Katy Farber was our guest in early August 2010 talking about her book: “Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus”.

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Change the World with Service Learning – How to Organize, Lead and Assess Service-Learning Projects is Katy Farber’s new book. Katy is a fifth and sixth-grade teacher from Vermont.  She also writes a popular parenting blog about green living called Non-Toxic Kids.

A documentary film by Noodlehead Network called “Is This Going to Be on the Test? Place-Based Learning: Kids Exploring Their Own Community” was created about the service-learning projects completed by Katy Farber’s students in 2002. Katy writes that her students have located and preserved habitats, built community gardens, set up all-school composting and recycling programs, created numerous field guides, written and illustrated children’s books with science themes, and created and performed plays to teach younger students about science, history and culture.

Do you want to see improved school attendance, lessened dropout rates, increased standardized test scores and academic performance, improved attitudes, a better sense of responsibility and civic engagement in our students?  Then you won’t want to miss this discussion with Katy Farber.

Contact Information for Katy Faber:

http://katyfarber.com

http://www.whygreatteachersquit.com/

http://www.non-toxickids.net/

I hope you will be able to join me for the launch, but if not, you can download free and/or listen any time after the launch, at our website.

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Here’s an interview I did last week over at LifeTips Radio about my  book Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus.  In it, I share 10 tips for how parents can work best with schools and teachers.  It was fun to speak with Byron White, the founder of LifeTips.  I appreciated the opportunity to speak with him and share how we can better sustain teachers in our nation’s schools.

I just opened the mail this week to discover my new book, the hot off the press, called Change the World with Service Learning:  How to Organize, Lead and Assess Service Learning Projects.

Why should we care about service learning?  Because it can keep kids in school, improve their grades, attendance, attitude, civic engagment, and sense of responsibility.  In short, service learning can help close the acheivment gap that exists in American schools and connect kids to their communities.

Service learning is not community service. It is an under used teaching and learning method that solves community problems by having students research, explore, and connect to and share with their communities.

What’s the book about?

Change the World with Service Learning is clear, direct, and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating service learning into their existing curriculum. This book guides teachers from all content areas and grade levels to create outstanding service-learning projects with students like no other book does. Change the World with Service Learning is a no-fluff, step-by-step, teacher-to-teacher description of how to create, plan, teach, and celebrate service-learning projects that meet and exceed local, district, and national curricular expectations.

Know a teacher? Please send them this post. All teachers can use this book to integrate service learning into their existing curriculum, and will be inspired by the success stories and reasons to lead service learning projects with their students.

Or enter them in this giveway. Yep, I’m giving away one hot off the press copy of this new book.  Just add a comment on this post for a chance to win.  Good luck!

Don’t want to wait? You can find it at my publisher’s website, Rowman Littlefield Press, on Amazon, or ask for it at your local bookstore.