Service Learning Alive and Well at WLMS

Service Learning is a teaching method that combines meaningful service to the community with curriculum-based learning.

Students improve their academic skills by applying what they learn in school to the real world; they then reflect on their experience to reinforce the link between their service and their learning.

Source: Learning in Deed by Edward B. Fiske

Service Learning is alive and well at WLMS! Here is just one example...This year our 8th graders have adopted a local animal shelter to help. Earlier in the year students conducted a fundraiser for the shelter and this past week made dog toys that will be given to dogs who end up in the shelter.

Below is a lesson that Ms. Warner created to help our students solve a real problem in our community by infusing it into the regular reading curriculum! This is when "magic" happens in a middle school classroom...students engaged in solving real problems and applying their academic skills and processes! Way to go Ms. Warner and all of her students!