Chapter 5: The Sustaining Factors of Service-Learning at a National Leader School: A Case Study

This chapter examines the factors related to sustaining a fully implemented and nationally recognized high school service-learning program. It reveals why community service-learning has been sustained for the past nine years at a suburban high school recognized as a National Service-Learning Leader School by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The study exposed the broad narrative of the case from the perspective of four data sources: observations, documents and artifacts, interviews, and a faculty survey. The findings indicate that a variety of constituencies became vested in the innovation because of the shared value of “community development” that the project added to the academic curriculum.