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Coalition for Community Schools, 2021
"Scaling Up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy" builds on both practice and research to describe the what, why, and how of system-wide expansion of community schools. The guide is written for a wide audience and for communities at different points in planning for, implementing, and sustaining a community…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Capacity Building
Torres, Luis Eladio – ASCD, 2023
In this provocative and timely book, Luis Eladio Torres challenges a common assumption: that education is the "first priority" for families, including those who are raising their children in low-income, high-need communities. Instead, he argues that these families must confront daunting challenges in five other areas--food, shelter,…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Community Schools, Educational Needs, Barriers
Eversole, Oriana; Bartley, Carmen – Region 10 Comprehensive Center, 2023
The primary purpose of this guidebook is to support a learning community that promotes the growth, quality, and sustainability of Community Schools across Wisconsin. This document provides an overview of Community School models and supports, including: a list of the current districts implementing Community Schools in Wisconsin; information on how…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Program Implementation, Educational Policy, Interprofessional Relationship
Research for Action, 2017
There are more than three dozen systemic community schools initiatives currently underway nationwide, with even more communities considering the reform. Yet few tools exist to help school districts, government agencies, and communities at large track their progress. To address this gap, Research for Action (RFA), with generous funding from the…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Educational Development, Progress Monitoring, Educational Indicators
Junge, Amy – Education Evolving, 2019
"Teacher-Powered Practices: How teacher teams collaboratively lead and create student-centered schools" focuses on how innovative teachers are radically changing the ways schools are designed and run. The how here are the common practices, structures, and processes teacher-powered teams design and use daily. The guide identifies nine…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Student Centered Learning, School Culture, Participative Decision Making
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Redding, Sam, Ed.; Murphy, Marilyn, Ed.; Sheley, Pam, Ed. – Academic Development Institute, 2011
This "Handbook" offers a broad definition of family and community engagement, seen through the lens of scholars and practitioners with a wide-ranging set of perspectives on why and how families, communities, and schools collaborate with one another. Taken together, the chapters in this "Handbook" sketch out the components of a…
Descriptors: Guides, Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Family School Relationship
Melaville, Atelia; Berg, Amy C.; Blank, Martin J. – Coalition for Community Schools, 2006
Community schools foster a learning environment that extends far beyond the classroom walls. Students learn and problem solve in the context of their lives and communities. Community schools nurture this natural engagement. Because of the deep and purposeful connections between schools and communities, the curriculum is influenced and enhanced,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Community Schools, Citizenship Education, School Community Relationship
Robbins, Wayne R.; Whitaker, Donald – 1975
Community education addresses itself to the involvement of community people in decision-making processes. By opening the local school to all members of the community, determining its needs, wants, and problems, setting priorities, and then finding the appropriate delivery systems to address these issues, the concept is becoming a significant…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Advisory Committees, Annotated Bibliographies
Washington State Board for Community Coll. Education, Olympia. Advisory Council on Community Coll. Planning. – 1976
A conceptual basis within which all sponsors of community and continuing education can cooperate is proposed in this paper. Such cooperative agencies would include community colleges, school districts, community park and recreation departments, YWCA's, YMCA's, public and private four-year institutions, vocational-technical institutes, and all…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Education
Barnes, Nancy – 1974
This report provides information on the degrees and certificate programs offered in Oregon's postsecondary institutions of education for the 1973-74 academic school year. Degrees and certificate programs are listed as given in the institutions' catalogs. An inventory of programs for each postsecondary institution is provided in appendixes, which…
Descriptors: Colleges, Community Colleges, Community Schools, Curriculum
Warden, John W. – 1977
This booklet is about what people say and do with regard to citizen participation. Explanations and key resources are provided for eleven techniques to obtain citizen participation: Alinsky Organizations, charrettes, citizen advisory committees, community audio and video access, community development corporations, community resource/information…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizens Councils, Community Action, Community Centers
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. – 1965
The Community Action Program Workbook has been prepared as an aid to the many people now involved in establishing community action programs to combat poverty. It is designed to stimulate thinking rather than to prescribe given courses of action. Although it has many audiences, the workbook is intended principally for the local community groups who…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, After School Programs, Community Action, Community Involvement
Brooks, Clair E. – 1973
The career information centers described in the publication were developed for schools participating in the Iowa exemplary project. It is the purpose of the document to suggest solutions to three basic questions: (1) How will prospective materials be identified and obtained? (2) How can available materials best be displayed in order to maximize…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Career Education, Community Information Services, Community Schools
Ringers, Joseph, Jr. – 1977
Conservation of energy and resources, recycling and reprogramming of excess school space, coordination and co-programming of human service agencies, and efficiency and economy are among the reasons why interagency programs share space, staff, and other resources. Citizens, professionals, agency executives, and elected officials are recognizing…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Bureaucracy, Change Agents, Change Strategies
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