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Office of School Safety and Learning Support
Mike Herrmann, Executive Director
710 James Robertson Parkway
5th Floor, Andrew Johnson Tower
Nashville, Tennessee 37243
Phone: (615) 741-3248
Fax: (615) 532-6638

 

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Tennessee Learn and Serve

Learn and Serve

The Tennessee Department of Education's Office of School Safety and Learning Support in collaboration with the Tennessee Commission on National and Community Service manage a competitive grant program available to all Tennessee school districts. This program supports the integration of service-learning in K-12 public schools.

Service-learning is a teaching strategy in which student address community problems. As an effective teaching strategy, it is designed to help students acquire core course content and skills. Through service learning students develop civic competencies, knowledge and dispositions that lead to a lifetime of civic engagement and service to the community.

For more information on the service-learning teaching methodology see www.servicelearning.org Exit Department of Education web site or the Tennessee Commission on National and Community Service www.volunteertennessee.net Exit Department of Education web site.

The Tennessee Learn and Serve is funded by a grant from the Corporation for National & Community Service.

www.learnandserve.gov Exit Department of Education web site

You can also download the Students in Service Exit Department of Education web site report by clicking the preceding link. 

For More Information Contact:

Nichole Cobb, Director (Guidance & School Counseling Services)
710 James Robertson Parkway
5th Floor, Andrew Johnson Tower
Nashville, Tennessee 37243
Phone: (615) 741-5113