Parents, caregivers, and community members have a variety of opportunities to make meaningful contributions to school programming and student citizenship development. Services are available to students and staff who may be facing such issues in their own lives. Students feel personally known and cared for by at least one adult in the school. Students and community members are viewed as resources for supporting one another. Schools use many strategies and approaches to make learning relevant for students.
Classrooms are interactive places that often take learning beyond the schoolhouse door.
Students are expected to do their best and experience success. All students and staff are expected to model positive behaviors that embody good citizenship. In discussing the absence of civic duty in young people, Terry Pickeral , project director for the Compact for Learning and Citizenship, Education Commission of the States , focused on the connection between civics, citizenship, and service-learning. Students need to be shown that service is just one facet of citizenship. According to Pickeral, when teaching students about civics and citizenship, it is important to distinguish from civic education and education for citizenship.