Serve and Learn: Implementing and Evaluating Service-learning in Middle and High Schools

This book suggests how teachers and community partners can use service-learning in ways that can systematically enhance student academic outcomes and their civic education and lead to their informed and fruitful civic participation as youth & adults.

Florence Fay Pritchard is an internationally published educational writer in the fields of test taking and curriculum development. She brings her experience as a teacher in grades 5-12, an undergraduate and graduate teacher educator, and an educational administrator to her work on service learning. Upon retiring as an associate vice president from Salisbury University of Maryland, she relocated to Florida's Gulf Coast to pursue a full-time writing career. She is active in community service and mentoring high school students, serves on the Board of Directors of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft. Myers, Florida, and writes fiction between work on educational projects. Pritchard graduated from the College of William and Mary, and earned a masters degree from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D from the University of Maryland.
George I. Whitehead, III is a social psychologist who has co-authored more than 30 articles in psychology journals and books. He is also project director for an AmeriCorps grant and was project director for a Learn and Serve grant. In addition, he serves as president of his county's Board of Education, as a member of the Governor's Commission on Service and Volunteerism, and as chair of his local Community of Promise. Whitehead graduated from Trinity College, CT and earned a Ph. D. in social psychology from University of Massachusetts-Amherst.