Service learning is most often touted as a vehicle for creating andreinforcing civic-minded citizens and generating democraticresponsibility among our students while serving and empoweringcommunities. Equally as important, service learning is pedagogy.Service learning track participants discussed ways to develop thebest practices and pedagogies, focusing on both the outcomes we hopeto achieve through a variety of applications of service learning,and on the necessary components—or ingredients—that comprise servicelearning as a method of instruction. Papers covered a broad range ofinter-related themes including service learning at large researchuniversities, research-as-service projects, the impact of servicelearning on student health, the challenges inherent in assessingactive forms of learning, and engaging youth with political humor.Participants were equally as diverse and included faculty andadministrators from large universities, liberal arts colleges,community colleges, and public high schools.