Information About Commission Meetings

The National Commission on Service-Learning held three meetings, as well as a Forum on the Future of Service-Learning and a series of Site Visits to schools. Through these sessions, the Commissioners engaged in an ongoing dialogue on the future of service-learning in K-12 public education. The Commission's final report and recommendations were released in January 2002, but these summaries of the Commission meetings offer important background to the report. The John Glenn Institute was pleased to host the Commission's third meeting in Columbus, Ohio, in July 2001.

Proceedings from Commission Meetings

Meeting One, December 2000
Our purpose is to bring a new level of public commitment to service-learning by developing recommendations and an action plan to make service-learning available to all K-12 students.
- Senator John Glenn, Commission Chair, Meeting One

Meeting Two, April 2001
Service-learning has the potential to have great impact on children of poverty who don't believe they can read or do well in English or math class. Why? Because they go into a service-learning task believing they have the acumen to do this work. And, lo and behold, they do extraordinarily well.
-Rudy Crew, Guest Speaker at Meeting Two

Meeting Three, July 2001
Service-learning teaches old American values for a new and more diverse America.
-Anne Bryant, Commission Member at Meeting Three

Forum on the Future of Service-Learning
During the Forum on the Future of Service-Learning, eight National Commission members sat down with approximately 150 youth and adults to hear first- hand their thoughts on what needs to happen to expand service-learning.