The National Service-Learning Partnership

is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2009

State Farm® Award for Service-Learning Excellence in Teacher Education

CONGRATULATIONS!
California State University, Chico

With support from the State Farm® Companies Foundation, the National Service-Learning Partnership (NSLP) at the Academy for Educational Development, and International Center for Service-Learning in Teacher Education, The State Farm® Award for Service-Learning Excellence in Teacher Education honors teacher education programs that make a significant commitment to improving the quality of teaching and learning in preparing teachers and schools leaders to use service-learning as an instructional strategy. This award recognizes exemplary practices, which include, but are not limited to:

• The demonstration of service-learning as a pedagogy in preparing teachers.
• The development of P-12 school/teacher education partnerships that provide student teaching experience with service-learning.
• The effective teaching and implementation of K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice.
• The use of service-learning experiences with pre-service teachers in p-12 and/or other community settings.
• The production of data that demonstrate the impact of service-learning on student outcomes.
• The relationship of service-learning to the Principles of Good Practice for Service-Learning in Preservice Teacher Education.