Living Classroom

Would you like your students to become community leaders and activists? This book will help you empower your students to change their attitudes and behaviors to do more good. This book’s theme is the necessity of creativity as well as community service in classrooms everyday. Poplau includes numerous ideas and examples as well as opportunities to create a meaningful living classroom. 

Many young people are making an important difference through community service. We should recognize their outstanding contributions and challenge others to give back by volunteering in their communities. This book explains how., Ron Poplau has done more than theorize about the benefits of community service, he has truly lived the experience. We can all benefit from his wisdom on the topic., The profound value of this program is that EVERYONE benefits! Ron Poplau has developed a concept that changes the lives of students who participate as well as the people they serve. If every school would adopt this program the world would be a much kinder, safer place., A well-rounded education includes developing a sense of civic responsibility in the students for whom we are responsible. A community service program as described in this book is an effective approach to achieving this goal., The community service program developed by Ron Poplau, if emulated by juvenile justice systems, would reduce juvenile offender recidivism.

Ronald W. Poplau is a member of National Teachers Hall of Fame; Mid-America Teachers Hall of Fame; Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame; 2006 Kansas Teacher of the Year and is a national consultant on education.