Bill Text: HI SB220 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Service-learning.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-03-11 - The committee(s) on EDN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB220 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-SB220-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO SERVICE-LEARNING.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that learning through community service volunteering activities, known as service-learning, is a powerful instructional strategy for improving the educational performance of students. Students who participate in service‑learning experience numerous positive outcomes, including a positive development of character, values, self‑esteem, civic responsibility, and knowledge of local community issues and concerns; higher academic achievement; higher attendance rates; a greater sense of civic responsibility; greater acceptance of cultural diversity; increased awareness of cultural difference; positive attitudes toward helping others; greater social competency; lower dropout rates; lower disciplinary rates; and lower rates of engagement in behaviors that lead to arrest or pregnancy. Community leaders report that service-learning partnerships help to build positive community attitudes toward youths. In addition, schools that support service-learning are more likely to have positive relationships within their communities.
The purpose of this Act is to require public schools to implement a service-learning curriculum.
SECTION 2. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part II, subpart B, to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§302A- Service-learning curriculum. (a) No later than the 2024-2025 school year, the department shall implement a service-learning curriculum for students in grades nine through twelve. The service-learning curriculum shall be approved by the board. The purpose of the curriculum shall be to develop character, values, self-esteem, civic responsibility, and knowledge of local community issues and concerns through community service volunteer work. Completion of the service-learning curriculum shall be a requirement for graduation.
(b) The service-learning curriculum shall:
(1) Specify a minimum number
of hours of community service volunteer work that shall be completed by each student;
(2) Include
evidence-based and applied instructional practices for developing service-learning
skills;
(3) Identify the ways
that the curriculum aligns with and is supportive of common core state
standards;
(4) Require students
to learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized community
service volunteer work that shall:
(A) Be
conducted in, and meet the needs of, a community;
(B) Be
coordinated with a secondary school and the community; and
(C) Help
to foster civic responsibility;
(5) Be integrated
into and enhance the students' standards-based curriculum;
(6) Provide
structured time for each student to reflect on the student's volunteer
experience;
(7) Provide model
lessons and activities specific to each grade level; and
(8) Identify
supporting instructional materials.
(c) The service-learning curriculum shall be posted
on the department's website. The website
shall also encourage private schools and charter schools to follow the service-learning
curriculum."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
DOE; Service-learning; Curriculum; Community Service Volunteer Work
Description:
Requires the Department of Education to implement a service-learning curriculum to develop student character, values, self-esteem, civic responsibility, and knowledge of local community issues and concerns though community service volunteer work.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
