2015-2016 Service Learning Criteria
CPS students are required to earn 40 service learning hours in order to graduate. Hirsch students will be required to have at least 25 individual service learning hours and at least one 15-hour project that will be completed in the classroom.
Individual hour requirements:
Service-learning actively engages participants in meaningful and personally relevant service activities that contribute to the common good. If students put their full mind and effort into projects, they can expect to:
Some examples of organizations to earn individual service learning hours with are:
Students may not earn service-learning credit through the following restricted activities:
The CPS Service Learning website can be found at www.cps.edu/servicelearning.
Service learning forms are available in the main office and from Ms. Robin. BOTH SIDES OF THE FORM MUST BE FILLED OUT ENTIRELY!! Hour can only be entered in full hour increments (i.e. the system will not allow entry of 2 ½ hours, and it will be entered as 2 hours).
Please contact Ms. Robin at (773) 535-3670 or [email protected] if you have any questions!
Individual hour requirements:
- Must have a Pre-Service planning sheet filled out and approved by Ms. Robin.
- Must follow individual hour criteria below.
- Must have an approved Service Learning Hours sheet filled out.
- Most have a Post-Reflection worksheet filled out.
Service-learning actively engages participants in meaningful and personally relevant service activities that contribute to the common good. If students put their full mind and effort into projects, they can expect to:
- Engage in exciting hands on learning
- Understand the relevance of academics to the real world
- Impact local issues and local needs
- Learn how to get things done
- Explore potential career interests
- Enjoy cross-cultural or intergenerational experiences
- Increase civic and citizenships skills
- Enter into a caring relationship with others and give of themselves
- Develop responsibility for their own learning
Some examples of organizations to earn individual service learning hours with are:
- American Red Cross
- Anti-Cruelty Society
- Chicago Cares
- Chicago Park District
- Enlace
- Erie House
- Greater Chicago Food Depository
- YMCA
- Soup kitchens/food pantries
- Nursing homes
- Tutoring and mentoring programs
Students may not earn service-learning credit through the following restricted activities:
- Work with for-profit businesses and corporations
- Work with religious organizations if the service involves promoting a particular faith
- Volunteer work where no academic objective is addressed
- Work that is financially reimbursed
- Marching in parades
- Donating clothes, food, blood, ect. (credit can only be earned if the student actually organizes the drive)
- Participation in a sports team or other extra-curricular activity unless that group designs a service-learning project that does not contain other restricted activities
- Assisting a teacher (i.e. correcting papers, cleaning the classroom)
- Artistic performances unless students are involved in creating a project that includes a performance as an outcome of the project
- Attending a workshop, conference or other educational event unless that training leads directly to a service project
The CPS Service Learning website can be found at www.cps.edu/servicelearning.
Service learning forms are available in the main office and from Ms. Robin. BOTH SIDES OF THE FORM MUST BE FILLED OUT ENTIRELY!! Hour can only be entered in full hour increments (i.e. the system will not allow entry of 2 ½ hours, and it will be entered as 2 hours).
Please contact Ms. Robin at (773) 535-3670 or [email protected] if you have any questions!
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