Workshop for Educators & Youth Development Leaders
Engaged Learning in Your Classroom: Incorporate Service-Learning and Social-Emotional Learning into Your Curriculum
Growing Social-Emotional Skills Through Service-Learning
Service-learning is a great way for students to build social-emotional skills while giving back to their communities. With everything students have faced lately—from the pandemic to mental health challenges—teachers are looking for meaningful ways to support them. Service-learning helps by encouraging students to ask big questions like: What does my community need? Why do these problems exist? How can I help?
By getting involved, students develop a real sense of passion and purpose. Research shows that students learn empathy, improve how they communicate, and get better at working as a team. It also boosts their confidence and helps them engage more in school. Plus, it brings together students, teachers, and the community to work toward common goals and support each other.
With the benefits of service-learning in mind, teachers, educators, and workers in the youth development space are invited to participate in this workshop designed to increase your understanding of service-learning and social-emotional learning and demonstrate the benefits of integrating these methods into you classroom. Together with your fellow educators, we’ll explore the best ways to incorporate service and social-emotional learning into your curriculum. Please click here to view the workshop agenda.
Thanks to the generosity of The Mayerson Foundation, this workshop is free of charge for educators, aspiring educators, or youth development leaders in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
We are please to collaborate with Partnerships for Authentic Learning & Leadership, whose co-founders, Ellen Erlanger and Kathy Meyer, will facilitate this workshop.
Ellen Erlanger — Co-Founder and Co-Director of Professional Learning, Partnerships for Authentic Learning and Leadership
Ellen brings over four decades of experience as an Ohio teacher and administrator—having worked in Canton and Upper Arlington. She has long been a leader in service-learning, career development, community education, staff development and more. Though she retired in 2002, the University of Michigan alumna (B.A., M.A.) keeps her passion for education close through her role with Partnerships for Authentic Learning and Leadership. Her work has been widespread and includes the creation of instructional materials, education-related articles, and books.
Kathy Meyer — Co-Founder and Co-Director of Professional Learning, Partnerships for Authentic Learning and Leadership
Kathy was a teacher, school counselor and administrator in Ohio for more than 30 years—which included her role as an administrator for Worthington City Schools that lasted from 1985 until her retirement in 2000. As part of that role, Kathy was responsible for the integration of service-learning in the K-12 program with a heavy emphasis on professional development. Today she serves as Co-Director of Professional Learning with Partnerships for Authentic Learning & Leadership. An alumna of Wittenberg University (B.A.) and Wright State University (M.A.), she has authored and published a variety of instructional materials focused on service-learning and other authentic instructional strategies and provided related training programs to numerous public and private schools throughout Ohio as well as a number of other states.
This workshop is hosted by Magnified Giving. At Magnified Giving, our mission is to educate, inspire, and engage youth in philanthropy. We accomplish this through 3 program pillars: our Youth Philanthropy Program, Camp Give, and by providing service-learning resources to our community. This workshop falls under our last pillar. To learn more about Magnified Giving’s programs, please click here.