The displacement of thousands of people from countries facing war and violence has resulted in a refugee crisis that most host countries were not prepared to cope with. As a significant number of them are children, the education systems and educators were found unprepared to respond to the rights of refugee children for education. In this paper,…

If judged against prevailing understandings of community schools (CSs) in the scholarly literature, all Romanian schools should qualify as CSs in light of the regulatory framework. However, few Romanian schools are genuinely CSs. This article describes a recent NGO-led initiative to assist Romanian schools in becoming CSs and explores the nature…

This paper explores how school community collaboration is given meaning by municipally employed coordinators whose task is to organise collaboration between schools and other actors in urban areas in Sweden. Inspired by Carol Bacchi's theorisation of the constitutive aspect of discerning problems, it examines how coordinators give meaning to the…

Medical education may lack experiential training on authentic community engagement (CE). Employing a human-centered design approach with medical faculty and students to identify goals, opportunities, needs, and barriers to implementing CE research, we developed an Experiential Community Engagement Learning Series (EXCELS) pilot program. EXCELS…

In "Liberating the Classroom," Tessa Hicks Peterson shows how universities can transform into places that directly disrupt injustice and work toward personal and collective liberation. Instead of reproducing social inequity, higher education institutions could become engines of healing. This transformation, however, requires a major…

This article shares wisdom from three leaders in the Baltimore nonprofit sector on university engagement with local communities. In conversation with the directors of Towson University's Grant Writing in Valued Environments (G.I.V.E.) program, the community leaders give practical advice to be used in grant writing and community engagement efforts,…

This article explores the collaborative process behind the development and promotion of "Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices," an edited collection produced by an interracial team of editors and authors of 22 chapters. Through reflective narratives and critical conversations, we highlight the transformative…

This report describes a One Health approach to address food insecurity among two distinct campus populations--college students and patients at a campus-based community health clinic serving Latine adults. The multidisciplinary collaboration includes college staff, faculty, and students, and the founders, both women-centered institutions. Organic…

This article theorizes the concept of kinship in the context of a time-bound university-community collaboration between a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) team and an undergraduate course at an elite liberal arts college in the Midwest. The two co-authors, the two adults involved in this partnership, build on the YPAR team's definition…

This article discusses the ways college health supports its communities' needs. The article's Bottom Line is that the positive reach of campus health stretches across student populations and sometimes beyond to impact learning, wellness, and thriving. The authors hope to spotlight how college health is embedded in the higher education world in…

This article explores how college students' beliefs about reciprocity are shaped through community engagement, particularly in the context of community-engaged research. Recent studies highlight the central role of reciprocity in students' engagement experiences; students not only seek reciprocal relationships and meaningful impact, but also…

Author Mario I. Acosta emphasizes the critical importance of school culture in enhancing student learning and optimizing teacher efficacy. In this guide, he defines and examines the foundations of an effective school culture and how it influences the school's vision, values, climate, and community and family involvement. With research-backed…

This article explores how a collaborative approach to garden-based education can support knowledge transfer that extends beyond the immediate participants. Despite the recognised benefits of school gardens, teachers often lack the community networks required to make them successful educational spaces. Through partnerships between universities,…

School-based agricultural education (SBAE) teachers are expected to complete a variety of tasks related to their profession. These tasks are associated with a wide range of roles, responsibilities, and functions. One such area in which teachers are expected to complete tasks is advising an FFA chapter. Although the general tasks associated with…

The community school model posits that the traditional school model is not sufficient to overcome the role of poverty in equitable access to learning, and that improving student achievement requires addressing the needs of the whole child. By leveraging community partnerships to address student barriers to learning and shift relationships between…