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Harnessing Service Learning to Build Social, Emotional and Academic Skills


Schools seeking to develop students’ social, emotional, and academic skills should consider service learning as one way to help students apply those skills. As of the 2017–18 school year, 37 states and the District of Columbia required or encouraged school districts to offer community service education and service-learning programs. This analysis explores how state boards of education are uniquely positioned to support and model such community service initiatives.


Harnessing Service Learning to Build Social, Emotional, and Academic Skills



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