Learn & Serve Virginia
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.

Learn and Serve America funds K-12 programs in all states through three-year formula grants to enable local schools to integrate community service with educational content areas. Learn and Serve Virginia 2006-2007 grants and continuation grants in 2007-2009 focus on the environment and watershed protection and restoration as the context for service-learning.

The purpose of the LSV competitive grant is to integrate the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) in grades 6-12 with numerous existing environmental initiatives and partnerships in an effort to increase environmental, particularly watershed, stewardship. This includes water quality studies and watershed restoration. Projects will build on the successes of current service-learning projects and follow the guidelines such as those outlined for a Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE), part of the Chesapeake Bay 2000 Agreement and A Business Plan for Environmental Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia .