State Education Agency K-12 Service-Learning Network
The State Education Agency K-12 Service-Learning Network (SEANet) is a national member-directed network of professionals committed to advancing school-based service-learning initiatives in K-12 schools and school districts all across the country.
As a unified national voice that provides active leadership to advance academically rigorous service-learning experiences in the school setting, SEANet is uniquely positioned to guide high quality practice across the field. Its role as an organization is to leverage the collective expertise of our members across the country in advancing service-learning for all K-12 students. SEANet members are able to collaborate not only with their fellow service-learning colleagues, but with other education specialists within their respective state education agencies.
These collaborative opportunities place SEANet members in the unique position of being able to ensure that the resources developed will resonate with educators at all levels, reflect current education initiatives at the state and national level, and are able to be meaningfully integrated within the academic curriculum. Through this collective work, SEANet engages national leaders in developing infrastructure that supports and nurtures high quality, sustainable service-learning practice.
SEANet members have increased their capacity to design high quality programs at the state level, advocate for effective policies that will advance service-learning throughout the educational process, and collaborate on mutually beneficial projects that enhance our work nationally, such as collaborative research and evaluation efforts.
- Provide support to state education agencies in providing leadership and resources that lead to the intentional use of service-learning as a sound pedagogy in the instructional setting and institutionalization at the district and state level.
- Advocate policy interests of SEANet with service-learning practitioner groups, organizations, and other related organizations who are involved in the development, guidance, and funding of service-learning at national and state levels.
- Identify and leverage resources to support and sustain the work of member states.
- Establish SEANet as a key partner in national leadership in the support, development, and institutionalization of K-12 school-based service-learning.
SEANet is housed at Innovations in Civic Participation. As SEANet's host agency, ICP partners with the Network in advancing academic service-learning in K-12 schools.
To learn more about SEANet, click here.