American YouthWorks Charter High School, Campus 002, operates a Service Learning Academy.  Service Learning is a teaching and learning strategy through which students participate in meaningful community service projects. In the Service Learning Academy, students attend core academic classroom-based classes and participate in one of our green jobs training programs, such as Casa Verde Builders, Environmental Corps, or Computer Corps.

“Service-Learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the perennial question: Why do I need to learn this stuff?”

—General Colin Powell, Founding Chairman of America’s Promise

See what’s going on over at the Service Learning Academy from the mouth of its members. Check out the Service Learning Academy Blog.