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Volunteer San Diego's Engaging Students Events (NEW)

Engaging Students: Fall Service Event (FREE)
You’re invited to the Fall Service Event that will focus on the environment and animals. Come find inspiration to engage students in local environmental and animal related service projects. Collaborate with award-winning service learning practitioners, educators, students and organizations, hear from special guest speakers from a special guest speaker, and participate in a World Café discussion with experts who can help you bring your ideas to life. It’s all FREE, with an Awards Reception to follow.

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Volunteer San Diego's Engaging Students in Service Training Series

Engaging Students in Service: An Introduction to Service-Learning: (formerly Service-Learning Introduction) For anyone working with students or youth groups -- in the classroom or after school -- this training will teach you the essentials of integrating community service with academic learning (and California state standards) in three easy steps. In this training, we will explore the 7 elements of successful high-quality service-learning, demonstrate how to integrate service-learning into your curriculum, and provide a number of resources to support service-learning in your classroom.

Engaging Students in Service: On-Site Projects & Reflection: (formerly Service Learning In Focus) Ideal for English, Social Studies, Math AND Science teachers  In this training, we will demonstrate how to infuse environmental service and disaster preparedness projects with academic learning across ALL subjects.  You will also practice simple and fun environmental and disaster preparedness curriculum and review examples of successful projects ideal for school sites (no permission slips required).  We will end with a look at how reflection activities can enhance learning for students with varying learning styles.

Engaging Students in Service: Student Motivation and Character Education: (formerly Service Learning In Focus) Looking for tools to help your students become invested in their own education? In need of tips to create a respectful and productive classroom free of the usual interruptions? The classroom can be a place not merely for intellectual development, but for building student character and leadership too. This training will teach you how to use service-learning to make that dream a reality.

Engaging Students in Service: The Comprehensive Service-Learning Training: (formerly Service-Learning All-in-One Training) Get more bang for your buck!  We now offer an day-long service-learning discover course. While the course is open to all educators, employees of San Diego Unified School District  qualify for discover credit.  This hands-on training is an “All-in-One.” You will receive our introduction to service-learning, as well as character education, on-site projects, student motivation and reflection.

Tailored Trainings:  Interested in a specific service-learning theme or an ongoing, on-site training series for your entire school staff?  For a fee, we will design and provide a training tailored to your needs.  For more information, contact Jennifer Hamilton, 858-636-4137.

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More Courses/Conferences - (Click on links for registration information)
 

Exploring the Spiritual, Religious and Cultural Roots of Service: August 8-10, 2008 Marconi Conference Center, Marshall, CA  Join us for our tenth annual summer retreat which will bring together an intergenerational group of approximately sixty-five people to reflect and share ideas about the role of spirituality, religion and culture in lives dedicated to the service of others.  (Marshall, CA is approximately 90 minutes north of San Francisco).

8th Annual Service-Learning Summer Institute: August 11, 2008 Carpinteria High School, Carpinteria, CA  Presented by CalServe Central Coast Region 8, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, and Ventura Counties and with special guest Cathryn Berger Kaye. Workshop designed for K-12 teachers, SBCSLI, support staff, tutors, librarians, after school staff, curriculum directors, and administrators. Service-Learning community partners from the local business and nonprofit communities are also welcomed and encouraged to attend.

Welcome Cathryn Berger Kaye! Literature Links to Service Learning: Thursday, September 18, 2008 San Joaquin County Office of Education A Cooperative Effort of the San Joaquin & Stanislaus County Offices of Education, and presented by Delta Sierra Region Six Service Learning Programs - Registration fee is $60 which includes “The Complete Guide to Service Learning”, Supplemental CD and Continental breakfast and lunch. Request a registration form contact Veray Wickham.

High School BOOST-er Conference: November 5-6, 2008 Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA Join national leaders in a retreat-like setting to learn about topics affecting today's high school programs including promotions, academic achievement, risk behavior prevention, program models, career development, and more topics. Set in a retreat-like atmosphere, this extraordinary event will rejuvenate your passion and boost your direction for quality programming. We invite you to experience the most invigorating blend of networking and teambuilding opportunities, exceptional workshop presenters to learn and grow with and the latest trends and research in out-of-school time programming.
 

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Student Conferences

2008 National Youth Leadership Training: July 20-26, 2008 Voyager Environmental Center, Mound, Minnesota  High school students from Minnesota and beyond gather for The National Youth Leadership Training