Bonner 101: An Introduction to the Bonner Program Model
Youth Development Training
1. The Youth Leadership / Service-Learning
Initiative of the Minneapolis Public
School's Community Education
Department.
Everyday Leaders
2. “Service Learning can be defined as a teaching method
where guided or classroom learning is deepened through
service to others in a process that provides structured
time for reflection on service experience and
demonstration of the skills and knowledge acquired.”
Cathryn Berger Kaye
“Service Learning is a teaching and learning approach that
integrates community service with academic standards to
enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strength
communities”
National Commission on Service Learning
“Service learning is a method of teaching through which
students apply newly acquired academic skills and
knowledge to address real-life needs in their
communities.”
Alliance of Service-Learning Education Reform, 1993
3. As an after-school program option:
• Allows freedom in the service-learning process
• Encourages students to make connections within their
communities
• Gives students opportunities to serve
• Promotes individual and group problem-solving skills
• Empowers students to become activators instead of victims
4. How it has evolved:
•Exclusively Service-Learning Focused
•Pointed recruitment of facilitators
• Development of a job description
•Pointed two-part training for facilitators
•Diverse array of facilitator supports:
• Curriculum
• Website
• E-mail Updates
• Consistent communication
• Extra trainings and meeting opportunities
