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Emergent Evidence in Support of a Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement
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Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Lawson, Hal A.; Iachini, Aidyn; Flaspohler, Paul; Bean, Jerry; Wade-Mdivanian, Rebecca – Children & Schools, 2010
Community collaboration models expand conventional school improvement planning, which tends to be walled in, building centered, and bracketed by school and district boundaries. These community models enable educators, social workers, and other school professionals to form sustainable, strategic partnerships with families, community agencies,…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Public Agencies, School Social Workers, Social Work
Social Workers' Roles in Facilitating the Collective Involvement of Low-Income, Culturally Diverse Parents in an Elementary School
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Alameda-Lawson, Tania; Lawson, Michael A.; Lawson, Hal A. – Children & Schools, 2010
Social workers have pivotal roles to play in facilitating collective parent involvement in economically poor school communities. Using a community-based, participatory, and empowerment-oriented approach to social work practice and research, this study provides empirical support for this claim. It examines the narratives of 17 economically poor…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, School Social Workers
Community Collaboration to Improve Schools: Introducing a New Model from Ohio
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Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Lawson, Hal A.; Bean, Jerry; Flaspohler, Paul; Boone, Barbara; Kwiatkowski, Amber – Children & Schools, 2008
Conventional school improvement models traditionally involve "walled-in" approaches. These models focus primarily on academic learning strategies in response to standards-based accountabilities. Although positive outcomes have been documented, expanded school improvement models such as the Ohio Community Collaboration Model for School…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Cooperation, Educational Change
School-Linked Comprehensive Services: Promising Beginnings, Lessons Learned, and Future Challenges.
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Briar-Lawson, Katharine; Lawson, Hal A.; Collier, Connie; Joseph, Alfred – Social Work in Education, 1997
Draws on interviews and site visits in 36 states, a literature review, and other data to contrast first-generation and second-generation school-linked comprehensive partnerships. Discusses characteristics of each partnership and concludes that school-linked services can be transformational tools, especially when tied to family and community…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship