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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We wanted to make you aware of a Call for Proposals for a service-learning conference that will be held at Ohio State this October. The Service-Learning Initiative
plans to be involved, and we hope to see you there as well! If you need more information, please contact
</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red"> </span></b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:slconferenceosu@gmail.com" target="_blank">slconferenceosu@gmail.com</a>.</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Harmony<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Call for Proposals for a Small Working Conference:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">“To Learn and to Serve: Critical Service-Learning
Initiatives and Community Engagements”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The Ohio State University</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">October 18, 2012 (Evening: Tentatively Scheduled Opening/Community Gathering)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">October 19, 2012 (All-Day: Presentations/Workshops)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">October 20, 2012 (Half-Day: Poster Sessions, Presentations, Closing Session)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Submission Deadline: May 7, 2012</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Overview & Invitation</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">This conference will bring together students, teachers, teacher educators, researchers, school and university administrators, and community members and organizations to explore
intersections of service-learning initiatives and community engagements across K-16 settings. Service-learning—traditionally defined as a multifaceted approach to integrating classroom instruction and academic research with meaningful community service—has
the potential to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, impact educational policy, and strengthen partnerships within schools, universities, and communities. Long recognized as an effective strategy for inspiring student learning, engagement, and activism
as well as increasing civic participation, service-learning has been credited with raising high school graduation rates, motivating students to go to and complete college, and encouraging civic participation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">However, some continue to view service-learning as volunteer work or community service that does not impact teaching, learning, research, and policy decisions within schools and
universities, and across local, national, and global communities. Thus, the unfair disassociation of service-learning from real world experiences involving a variety of activities such as critical reading, writing, questioning, thinking, problem posing, and
collaborating for social, political, and educational change. This conference, “To Learn and to Serve: Critical Service-Learning Initiatives and Community Engagements,” will highlight innovative approaches to engaging SL across contexts in ways that support
students’ academic experiences. Although not a requirement, we encourage proposals that include K-16 students, teachers, and community reps. The organizing committee is interested in reviewing proposals that address a variety of questions including, but not
limited to, the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">What might a critical service-learning project entail? What does current research in service-learning say?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">What are teaching ideas/practices that facilitate student engagement and support academic achievement?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">What are examples of high-quality service-learning projects across grade levels and content areas?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">What do students have to say about service-learning initiatives and community engagement?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">How can service-learning initiatives foster community engagement grounded in social justice?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">How can service-learning respond to 21<sup>st</sup> century literacy and technological demands?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">How can educational and community-based partnerships support service-learning projects?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">In what ways can spaces of engagement foster social change, activism, and civic participation for students, teachers, researchers, and community members and groups? How might
these spaces look?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Do service-learning projects have academic, social, and/or psychological influences on people across K-16 and community settings?</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Program Formats</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Workshop:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> (1 hour to 1 hour & 15 minutes). Workshops allow participants to consider
an idea and try out practical strategies by which to design, implement, participate in, and/or sustain service-learning projects.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Roundtable:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> (1 hour plus). This is an opportunity to talk with others about your
current work, emerging ideas, classroom data, and/or innovative practices. A variety of topics related to the conference theme can be explored.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Paper/Panel Session:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> (1 hour plus). This format enables presenters (3-4) to discuss
a topic in-depth.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Poster Session:</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> (ongoing) Poster sessions offer teaching/research/community ideas
displayed on a mounted poster for presenters to engage participants in conversation about their service-learning work.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">“To Learn and to Serve: Critical Service-Learning
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> <b>The Ohio State University</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">October 18-20, 2012 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF5007">Send Submissions To:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red"> </span></b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:slconferenceosu@gmail.com" target="_blank">slconferenceosu@gmail.com</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF5007">Submission Deadline: May 7, 2012</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">(</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF5007">Contact Person</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">:
Valerie Kinloch, OSU)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Session Title:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">__________________________________________________________________________________________ </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Presentation Format:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#222222">q</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Workshop </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#222222">q</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Paper/Panel
Session</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#222222">q</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Roundtable </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#222222">q</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Poster
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<p style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#222222">q</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> If accepted, are willing to have this proposed session videotaped?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:#222222">q</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> If accepted, will you agree to a change in format, if necessary?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Presentation Description:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">On a cover page, provide the complete name, address, email, and affiliation <b>for each presenter</b>. Then, on subsequent pages, attach a brief description (maximum 2 pages) of the presentation
that includes the following: (1) A condensed session description of up to 50 words that will be included in the conference program; (2) Title of each presentation included in the session, if applicable; (3) Presentation rationale; (4) Presentation questions,
goals, objectives; and (5) Educational significance and any other relevant information.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Intended Audience (check as many that apply): </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> __Primary/Elementary __Administrators __Community Organizations</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">__Middle School __Parents __Others</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> __High School __Curriculum Specialists </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> __College __Media/Tech Specialists </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> __Teacher Educators __Librarians <b> </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Important Notes: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">For planning purposes, all invited participants are required to register for the conference when they
accept their invitation (or by the registration deadline). Conference planners are<b> </b>unable to reimburse participants for expenses associated with attending this conference (e.g., travel; accommodations; etc.).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Proposal Submitted By </span></b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">(use a mailing address where you will receive information in the summer)</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Name & Title: _____________________________________________________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Complete Mailing Address: ___________________________________________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Email: _____________________________________ Phone ___________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Institution Affiliation & Position: ______________________________________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Registration Fee: Free for Columbus City Students/Teachers/Admin/Community Groups; All others, small donation TBD</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF5007">Send Cover Page & Proposal Form To:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red"> </span></b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:slconferenceosu@gmail.com" target="_blank">slconferenceosu@gmail.com</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#FF5007">Submission Deadline: May 7, 2012</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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