The National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) is a national
nonprofit
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organization located in
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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, that promotes
service-learning
Service-learning is an educational approach that combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs.
Service-learning involves students in service proje ...
in schools and communities across the United States. Founded in 1983 by Dr.
James Kielsmeier
James "Jim" Kielsmeier is founder and President/CEO of the National Youth Leadership Council, based in St. Paul, Minnesota. He also founded the Center for Experiential Education and Service-Learning at the University of Minnesota, where he is als ...
, NYLC is the host of the annual
National Service-Learning Conference. The organization is a proponent of service-learning and
national service
National service is the system of voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term ''national service'' comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939.
The l ...
in the United States.
History
Founded in 1983, to "create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world with young people, their schools, and their communities through service-learning". The National Youth Leadership Council began hosting the National Service-Learning Conference in 1989. In 1993 the organization became the main training and technical assistance for the
Corporation for National Service focused on service learning.
Programs
NYLC publishes an annual research publication, ''
Growing to Greatness'', that seeks to document the scope, scale, and impacts of service-learning. An edition has been published each year since 2004. Each edition features a series of topical research articles from leading scholars in the field as well as qualitative profiles of several U.S. states and territories and, increasingly, state-by-state data on service-learning and positive youth contributions.
In 2008, NYLC released the ''K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice'' that detail the eight standards of quality service-learning, with three to five accompanying indicators for each standard. The standards are the result of a national review process that began with research from the field and vetted the previously-published ''Essential Elements of Service-Learning'' through a series of reactor panels to arrive at the final document.
[National Youth Leadership Council. (2008) ''K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice.'' Saint Paul: Author.]
See also
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Youth service
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Service-learning
Service-learning is an educational approach that combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic, progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs.
Service-learning involves students in service proje ...
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National Service-Learning Conference
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Youth voice
Youth voice refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitudes, knowledge, and actions of young people as a collective body. The term youth voice often groups together a diversity of perspectives and experiences, regardless of backgrounds, identit ...
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Youth organizations based in Minnesota
Educational organizations based in the United States