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Step 4: Prep Your Equipment

The Interview Route

Step 5: Create a Storyboard

Step 6: Digitize Your Media

Step 7: Record a Voice-Over

Step 8: Add Music

Step 9: Edit Your Story

Step 10: Share Your Story

clear connections to academic curriculum

a great deal of time and learning takes place before the service even happens

National Youth Leadership Council

Essential Elements of Service Learning

Practitioners that utilize service-learning understand that the process of identifying community needs, giving students an active role in designing, implementing, and evaluating the project and encouraging students to reflect on their learning allows young people to develop new understandings and applications beyond what they would gain from typical classroom instruction.

Finnish authorities haven’t outsourced school management to for-profit or non-profit organizations, implemented merit pay, or ranked teachers and schools according to test results, they’ve made excellent use of business strategies. They’ve won the war for talent by making teaching so appealing. In choosing principals, superintendents, and policymakers from inside the education world rather than looking outside it, Finnish authorities have likewise taken a page from the corporate playbook: Great organizations, as the business historian Alfred Chandler documented, cultivate talent from within. Of the many officials I interviewed at the Finnish Ministry of Education, the National Board of Education, the Education Evaluation Council, and the Helsinki Department of Education, all had been teachers for at least four years.

Finland’s school system unique is that the country has deliberately rejected the prevailing standardization movement

Since 1985, students have not been tracked (or grouped by ability) until the tenth grade

The Finnish approach to pedagogy is also distinct