I will make no apologies, as one cannot help but be lifted up even in times like these, about the learning going on in our schools after you have visited a service-learning site. There is nothing like seeing students, no matter the age, actively involved, engaged, and engrossed with community and education. Whether you visit elementary school students solving local hunger issues through a co-op garden,

As a Commission, staff and commissioners at ServeWyoming have both a unique and precarious role in promoting service-learning. We find it easy to promote the advantages of service-learning to community-based and afterschool programs, but to schools it is harder because we are not a state education agency. One of our biggest challenges has been to convince the Department of Education that although