The session pertains to a Service-Learning project involving Retrieving Freedom. The presentation will foster an interactive exchange of information and a service dog will showcase its benefi ts. The program’s development and implementation will be highlighted. Participants will leave with ideas about how to implement a project and develop a similar venture. William J. Soesbe III Assistant Professor of Education Iowa Campus Compact Engaged Scholars Faculty Fellow Wartburg College Scott Dewey President of Retrieving Freedom Inc.

2. Integrative Teaching and Deep Learning
through Participation in a Service-Learning
Project Involving Retrieving Freedom Inc.
(RFI)
Dr. William J. Soesbe III
Mr. Scott Dewey
Menomonie, Wisconsin
Friday, June 13th
, 2014
@3:25-4:25
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3. • Assistant Professor of Education
• Leadership Fellow
• Iowa Campus Compact Engaged Scholar
Faculty Fellow
• Former Director for the Office of Student
Field Experiences and School Partnerships
Coordinator at Wartburg College
• Served as a middle school science teacher
within the Waverly-Shell Rock CSD
Dr. William J. Soesbe III
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4. • President of RFI
• Owner of Rock Run Retrievers
– Trained dogs for AKC field trials
Mr. Scott Dewey
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5.  Participants will understand and appreciate the value of
service dogs in the lives of Veterans and children with autism
 Participants will possess a better understanding of how to develop
or enhance a reciprocal service-learning initiative.
 Participants will be able to better assess and evaluate an
experiential learning initiative.
 Participants will be able to implement a variety of strategies to
strengthen existing college-community partnerships.
 Participants will have brainstormed ways to enhance a current
community engagement project or have generated ideas for a
new project.
Goals and Objectives
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6. Name, Institution, Position, Role(s)?
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7. 1. Why did you attend this particular presentation?
AND
2. What do you hope/need to gain from the
presentation?
Two Questions…
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8. What did you take away from the Ted Talk?
So Why Are We Presenting to You?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHfo17ikSpY
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9. Further
informed by:
Soesbe’s
Conceptual
Framework of
Leadership
Development
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10. Attempting to achieve deep and integrative
learning as part of a Leadership Theories and
Practices (ID 315) course that involves a
significant service-learning experience with
RFI.
Looking beyond the visible light
spectrum…
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11. What Do We Want/Need our Students
to Experience and Accomplish?
 Deep and Integrative learning
We are not doing enough for our
students and we need to. Deep and
integrative learning is not the only
answer, but is ONE of the answers.
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12. Deep Learning AAC&U LEAP/Kuh High
Impact Practices
• Work closely with faculty and staff
• Common intellectual experiences
• Learning communities
• Writing intensive courses
• Collaborative assignments
• Service-learning
• Capstone courses that integrate and apply
previous learning
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13. Deep Learning: Effective Conditions
and Practices
• Academic challenge
• Active and collaborative learning
• Student-faculty interaction
• Supportive campus environment
• Enriching educational experiences
 Civic engagement
 Co-curricular leadership
 Experiential learning
• Shared responsibility for educational quality
Kuh, G., Kinzie, J. Schuh, J. Whitt, E. (2005). Student success in college; Creating conditions
that matter. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

14. Deep vs. Surface Learning
Deep Learning Surface Learning
Focus is on “what is signified” Focus is on the “signs” (or on the learning as
a signifier of something else)
Relates previous knowledge to new
knowledge
Focus on unrelated parts of the task
Relates knowledge from different courses Information for assessment is simply
memorized
Relates theoretical ideas to everyday
experience
Facts and concepts are associated
unreflectively
Relates and distinguishes evidence and
argument
Principles are not distinguished from
examples
Organizes and structures content into
coherent whole
Task is treated as an external imposition
Emphasis is internal, from within the
student
Emphasis is external, from demands of
assessment
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/deepsurf.htm

15. How Do We Accomplish D & I Learning?
 Partly through the pedagogy and idea
of triangulated learning
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16. Triangulated Learning
Traditional
Peer
Experiential
Tabb, M. (2011). The Sacred Acre: The Ed Thomas Story. Zondervan: Michigan.
Heifetz, R. and Linsky, M. (2002). Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of
Leading. Harvard Business School Press: Massachusetts.
Discussion,reflection,
presentations
Leadership on the Line & The
Sacred Acre , worksheetsCommunityBuildersor
RetrievingFreedomInc.
Deep and
Integrative
Learning

17. Traditional Learning
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18. Peer (Collaborative) Learning
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19. Experiential Learning (Service-learning)
http://www.wartburg.edu/cb/
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20. What are Ways That D & I Learning can
be Attained?
 Reciprocal, significant, and meaningful
partnerships
 Civic engagement
 Service-learning experiences
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21. Retrieving Freedom, Inc. is an organization that
trains service dogs for veterans and children
with autism.
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“Freedom isn’t Free”

23. “Where Some See Limitations, We Bring Opportunities”
 503(c) organization
 Based out of two locations (Waverly, IA & Senatobia, MS)
Train and provide service dogs to veterans and children with
autism
Accredited with Assistance Dogs International (ADI)
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24.  Philosophy of RFI
 Organization of RFI
 Process of selecting recipients
- Application and cost share,
 Process of raising and training a dog
- Resources, donor families, training, training facility
 Process of placing a dog with a recipient
*Demand for dogs outpaces the supply
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25. ID 315’s involvement with RFI:
 Meet 12 times over the course of the semester
 Students are trained how to work with the dogs
- Operant conditioning, positive reinforcement, & discipline
Students are paired with a dog at various stages of its training
Students train and work with the dogs
Students also perform other responsibilities associated with the
dog and RFI Inc.
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26. Service Projects with ID 315
• Fundraising and promoting for RFI
• W-SR Elementary School Reading project
• Wheelchair Basketball event
• Christmas on Main event
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27. Fundraising and Promoting RFI
•Grilling out at football games
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W-SR Reading
Reward Program

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RFI Wheelchair Basketball Game

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Christmas
on Main

33. Future of RFI • 5,500 square foot facility
• Training center
• Rooms for Veterans
receiving dogs
• Classrooms
• Working towards
fundraising
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34. Ongoing research associated with the RFI partnership:
 Trying to determine the change in civic attitudes, skills, and
dispositions of participants
- Moely, McFarland, Miron, Mercer, Illustre (Fall 2002,
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning)
- Civic Attitudes and Skills Questionnaire (CASQ)
- Pre-test, post-test, and post/pre-test
- Interviews with participants
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35. Arrange yourself into three or four diverse groups.
Let’s Create Groups
Do not open until
5/20/2013
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36. 1. What are you currently doing in your
position/role to help foster and improve
partnerships?
2. What do you want/need to do to further
develop service-learning opportunities?
3. What partnerships or S-L experiences
currently exist or are you working on to meet
the needs of your students, community, and
institution?
Peer Learning Experience
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37. Questions and
Comments?
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38. Thank you for your attention, insight,
and questions.
Bill Soesbe bill.soesbe@wartburg.edu