Meaningful Service: Community service engages students in meaningful and personally relevant activities.
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Self-Reflection: Community service incorporates reflections that prompt students' deep thinking and analysis of themselves and their relationship to society.
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Intercultural Competency: Community service promotes mutual respect among all participants and develops students' ability to communicate and collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds and contexts, and who have diverse perspectives.
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Student Empowerment: Community service promotes acquisition of knowledge and skills to enhance students' leadership and decision-making abilities.
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- Community service activities are appropriate for gifted and talented high school students.
- Community service connects with civic or social issues personally relevant to students.
- Community service provides students with interesting and engaging activities.
- Community service encourages students to understand their service experiences in the context of related civic or social issues.
- Community service leads to attainable and visible outcomes that are valued by those being served.
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- Community service activities have clearly articulated learning goals aligned with the school's mission statement.
- Community service helps students learn how to transfer knowledge and skills from one setting to another.
- Community service is formally recognized in student records.
Self-Reflection: Community service incorporates reflections that prompt students' deep thinking and analysis of themselves and their relationship to society.
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- Reflections occur at multiple points throughout the service experience.
- Reflections foster students' self-examination of preconceptions and assumptions in order to better understand their roles and responsibilities as citizens.
- Reflections encourage students to examine civic and social issues related to their community service in order to understand connections between public policy and civic life, and to analyze complex community problems and possible solutions.
- Reflections are conveyed through various modes of creative expression, including written, artistic, and digital activities.
Intercultural Competency: Community service promotes mutual respect among all participants and develops students' ability to communicate and collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds and contexts, and who have diverse perspectives.
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- Community service helps participants identify and analyze different points of view to gain understanding of multiple perspectives.
- Community service fosters students' development of interpersonal skills in conflict resolution and group decision-making.
- Community service helps students actively seek to understand and value the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of those offering and receiving service.
- Community service encourages students to recognize and overcome stereotypes.
Student Empowerment: Community service promotes acquisition of knowledge and skills to enhance students' leadership and decision-making abilities.
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- Community service engages students in generating ideas during the planning, implementation, or evaluation processes related to service activities.
- Community service involves students in evaluating the quality and/or effectiveness of the service activities.
- Long-term community service experiences involve students in the identification and collection of evidence to evaluate progress or quality in relation to service activities.
- Long-term community service experiences engage students in evidence-based decision-making related to service activities, and/or opportunities to communicate evidence of progress with the broader community.