College students and their community partners, Hmong and Latino immigrants, work together on the principle that “everyone is a teacher, everyone is a learner.” Community residents co-create with their student partners learning activities to prepare for the citizenship exam and improve English speaking skills; the students learn from their community partners the language, history, and culture of immigrant communities.
A few of the articles in this issue include:
’¢ Program Spotlight describes the history, structure, and organization of the university-community partnership and shows how the Jane Addams School embeds democratic principles and practices into service learning.
’¢ Questions & Answers offers the viewpoints of the School’s co-founders about engaging students in community service that helps them better understand and expand their classroom learning.
’¢ Student Voices describes how the Jane Addams School cultivates student leadership and starts students on a path of lifelong public work and community involvement.
’¢ Lessons From Leaders presents lessons about the ways communities and higher education institutions can work together for a common mission.
