POLICY & PRACTICE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT (PPDP)

Five states, California, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon and South Carolina, participate in the Learning In Deed PPDP. While each state is unique, they will all strive to:

• integrate quality service-learning practice more fully into K-12 academic curriculum
• reduce barriers to integrating service-learning into the classroom
• implement policies that support and encourage service-learning at the state/territory, district and school levels

To meet Learning In Deed’s long-term goal of institutionalization of service-learning, these demonstration states are:

• supporting high-quality practice
• developing supportive policies
• creating supportive infrastructures and processes

Education Commission of the States (ECS) manages the PPDP and provides technical assistance to the five states by:

• identifying the conditions necessary to meet LID goals
• providing technical assistance
• offering state, regional and national workshops on policy and practice
• helping states “scale up” service-learning in schools
• developing appropriate models for states, districts and schools that effectively incorporate service-learning with the curriculum

ECS also is encouraging other states to learn from the work of the five demonstration states by increasing the scope of service-learning policy and practice in their schools. These states will be invited to participate in the Initiative as “Network States.”

For more information about the Learning In Deed Policy & Practice Demonstration Project, contact Terry Pickeral at 303-299-3636 or e-mail tpickeral@ecs.org.