This bulletin describes the success of a partnership between the National Training and Dissemination Program (NTDP) and the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (Tennessee). Beginning in October, 1992, the NTDP provided Nashville with technical, staff, and financial assistance as well as law-related education (LRE) resources. Nashville schools…

This book describes the experiences of an inexperienced young teacher who, with the support of parents and teenagers in a Los Angeles (California) neighborhood, created a one-room schoolhouse and began to teach 30 gang members, ranging in age from 13 to nearly 20. He had no teaching credentials or college degree and the school had a tiny budget,…

This booklet is one in a series of publications designed to support the efforts of community sustainability advocates. It describes five activities through which community members can work together to apply sustainability principles to community development initiatives. Guidelines are provided for organizing and conducting a 6-hour workshop for…

The League of Schools Reaching Out is a national project to show how family/community/school partnerships can contribute significantly to school restructuring. It aims to increase the academic and social success of all children, especially those society labels as at risk. The league is attempting to expand the notion that the internal methods,…

To become the primary agents of school restructuring, today's coalitions must sharpen their focus and adopt a long-term outlook. This report explains how to turn a coalition of different perspectives and interest groups into a coherent, long-term strategic operation with a shared sense of purpose. Educators are advised to begin by identifying and…

This book is an introduction to the problem of child sexual abuse. Written in simple and direct language, with illustrations to reinforce key points, the book offers the perspective of small communities and contains a section on how communities can organize to do something about the problem of sexual abuse. Intended for parents, teachers, family…

Coalition building and school restructuring unfortunately do not always occur together. But the two forces can complement each other and combine their resources and strengths. Coalitions are organizations or groups of individuals who share a commitment to a particular issue. Although coalitions involved in school restructuring may in the long run…

A project initiated by the Auburn University (Alabama) program in music education in the College of Education and the Auburn University Cooperative Extension Service brought together school and community groups from targeted communities in Alabama to plan a conference to initiate thinking and develop action strategies for enriching the lives of…

Family-to-Family, a collaboration between community colleges, public agencies, and businesses that is funded by Mervyn's department stores, is a two-year effort to enhance the quality of family child care in Oregon. Its goals are to train at least 450 family child care providers, help at least 60 providers achieve national accreditation, and…

Findings are considered to suggest that principals recognize and are concerned about possible challenges to their authority from advisory councils. Level of concern appears to depend on council activities at the particular school or at neighboring schools. (Author/AM)

Seventy-one activities are suggested for student participation in community environmental awareness as well as for projects involving student-in-put on community decision making on environmental issues. (JR)

Suggestions for the improvement of the Associated Schools Project focus on involving students in their community under the assumption that students' attitudes toward society and the world as a whole begin with their attitudes toward their immediate environment. (JH)

A dean and a faculty member describe three strategies they have incorporated to initiate the building of an engaged scholarship culture: (1) communicating a scholarship of engagement vision; (2) creating new traditions, rituals, and symbols to support and reinforce the vision; and (3) creating new roles and responsibilities to help faculty…

Argument was for the importance of community development corporations (CDCs) as both tools for rural development planning and mechanisms for alleviating problems and economic impoverishment. (JC)

This article describes the programming system of the local park and recreation department in Oxford, Ohio. (PD)