• SERVICE-LEARNING
     

    Vision and Mission

    Queen Anne’s County Public Schools promotes high-quality service-learning experiences for all students to help them become active
    participants in making a difference in their community on a local and global level. Service-Learning 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. Successfully completing 75 hours of
    service-learning is a Maryland State Department of Education graduation requirement.

    Our service-learning in QACPS is tracked through the completion of five total projects, which adds up to the minimum requirement of 75
    hours. Service-learning experiences are introduced to students beginning in 4th grade. Our 4th and 5th grade elementary service-learning
    experiences total a minimum of 15 hours and count as one completed service-learning project. During 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, students
    work to complete 3 additional service-learning projects (one each year) within at least one of their content classes to provide service that
    is beneficial to their local community. These 3 middle school projects satisfy a minimum of 45 additional hours (15 hours each year).
    Students who begin service-learning in 4th grade can enter high school with four completed projects that equates to a minimum of 60
    service-learning hours.

    In high school, students complete at least one more project (a minimum of 15 more hours), in order to complete at least 5 service-learning projects within Queen Anne's County Public Schools (for a total of 75 hours minimum) that incorporate academic preparation and
    structured reflection to satisfy the Maryland State Department of Education graduation requirement. For more information about the high-quality service-learning in Queen Anne's County Public Schools, contact your local school's Service-Learning Coordinator. All students
    who transfer into our system from another Maryland public school are required to either show proof of satisfactory service-learning from
    their previous school, or complete school-based Service-Learning Coordinator. Students who transfer into QACPS from either a private school or from out of state need to contact the Service-Learning Coordinator at their school.

    All students who transfer into our system from another Maryland public school are required to either show proof of satisfactory service-learning from their previous school or complete our five required service-learning projects that can be planned jointly by the student with their school-based Service-Learning Coordinator. Students who transfer into QACPS from either a private school or from out of state need to contact the Service-Learning Coordinator at their school.
     
    All service-learning experiences should meet all of Maryland's Seven Best Practices of Service-Learning. These best practices expand on the fundamental preparation, action, and reflection stages of service-learning and should be used to assess high-quality projects and can be found here: View the complete Maryland Service-Learning Guidelines 
     
    Service-Learning Progression
     

    Please contact your local school for more information, or to find your Service-Learning Coordinator on a school's website.

    Queen Anne's County Public Schools
    202 Chesterfield Ave. Centreville, Maryland 21617      

    Karla Altamirano
    Administrative Secretary
    Office: 410.758.2403 #175
     
    01/25/2022
      
     
Last Modified on January 26, 2022