Department of Finance & Administration
Mark Emkes, Commissioner
Volunteer Tennessee
Jim Snell, Executive Director
Service-Learning Training
Certified Volunteer Tennessee Expert Service-Learning Trainers!
Our 25 expert State Farm service-learning trainers can deliver quality service-learning trainings across Tennessee. This diverse group of trainers has experience in K-12 Schools, community-based agencies and higher education institutions.
Click here for our service-learning trainers' contact information.
Tennessee Service-Learning Veterans
Attached is a small list of service-learning veterans who have offered to be a resource to individuals across the state who need support for their programs.
Click here for the list of service-learning veterans' contact information
Success Skills through Service-Learning
Workshop and Curriculum Materials for only $35!
For Course Code 9395
Click here to download the registration form for Skills for Action (9-12)
Click here to download the registration form for Skills for Adolescence/Growing (K-8)
The Tennessee Lions in partnership with Volunteer Tennessee and the Tennessee Department of Education are providing free teacher trainings in the service-learning methodology.
Service-learning is an innovative teaching strategy that combines volunteer service and classroom instruction. According to a recent study, service-learning is currently in use in one-third of all US schools, and one-half of all US high schools! This workshop will equip high school educators with the skills and materials necessary to meet the state's standards and curriculum frameworks for course code 9395, "Success Skills through Service-Learning". Designed to provide a comprehensive experiential approach focusing on ethical, social and intellectual skill development of students, service-learning develops positive values like trustworthiness and responsibility, commitment to a task and to those who are involved in it, collaboration and team-building, punctuality, and respect for the quality of work done while serving the community. Lions-Quest International will train and provide materials valued at $500 at a cost of $35 to Tennessee educators through a grant from the Lions Clubs International Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service.
For more information, please contact Del Ray Zimmerman at 615-253-2990 or Delray.Zimmerman@tn.gov
