The 121st Engineers of the Maryland National Guard volunteered their time to repair, renovate, improve, and build school facilities for Howard High School in Ellicott City, Maryland. (PGD)

Aurora, Colorado's Horizon Middle School maintains good community relations partly by housing a branch of the city library, a city-sponsored community center, three classrooms for a preschool, a sixth-grade class, a boy scout troop, soccer teams, local homeowners' associations, and two church groups. (PGD)

How an art department can use screen printing to provide useful, creative services to the school and community is described. This helps foster a positive attitude toward art education while teaching students new concepts. (RM)

Ways administrators can turn their interest in photography into an effective human relations program for their school systems. (MLF)

Offers guidelines for developing a community cultural journalism publication. (HTH)

Administrators who find themselves misunderstood, misquoted, and forced to discuss many items having a limited relationship to education should consider these points in getting started with a weekly column in the local paper. (Author/MLF)

Representative community councils are needed to serve a coordinating function as independent institutions between schools and the workplace. Council membership should include schools, employers, unions, parents, representatives from major service organizations, other effective community citizens, and youth representatives. (Author/JDS)

Twenty years of research on school performance has created a body of knowledge that grounds today's school improvement efforts and has resulted in a concise list of characteristics that are common to high-performing schools. As accountability becomes more and more important, educational leaders across the nation are actively attempting to foster…

Family involvement is a viable strategy to address transition issues related to school readiness. The school-family connection can help ensure that the potential of each child is fulfilled as well as bridge the achievement gap. This document utilizes a "School Snapshot" to illustrate that, with careful planning, schools can engage families in…

This document describes a program called Community Conversations, a joint effort between Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society of the two-year college, and the Community College Humanities Association. The program consisted of a series of national and regional conversations among students and community members, addressing what it means…

A study was conducted to examine the socioeconomic impact of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) on the surrounding community. This study was a follow-up to a previous examination of the economic relationship between the university and the community. The current study examined the short-term measurable economic impact of university…

In a partially personal account, written in March 2002, the author asks what education can teach the larger society about appropriate responses to the events of September 11, 2001. She describes the ways in which she and other members of the general public were educated by scholars concerned with the Arab and Muslim worlds from colleges and…

This paper presents a case study of school-community collaboration in an elementary community school (grades 1-6) in Israel. The development of environmental education school-based curriculum was at the core of this effort. The collaboration was established in the framework of the Community School Approach, which is practiced in many schools in…

This compendium of articles from "Science and Children", the elementary school journal of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), aims to help teachers build connections in their students' minds. The articles describe lessons and units that are interdisciplinary, both integrated and interdisciplinary, or thematic. Each article is…

Professional development for effecting school change and school improvement is a community endeavor. While effective professional development requires all components of the local setting to be considered, the complexity of the educational system prohibits simple solutions. Building a community of leaders helps insure success in the change process.…