This section will help you "make the case" for community schools to a variety of different audiences.
First decide who are you going to speak to. Click on an audience below to access research and tools relevant to your target audience. This is a "one-stop" shop before heading out to your meeting!
Second, access
PowerPoints that will help you make the case. You have our permission to make copies and share! You can also make your case stronger using these
documents and publications.
Next, visit the
"How-To" section of our site, to find more useful tools and publications!
Finally, one piece you don’t want to leave without is our
Results-Based Framework planning document. You also need to read:
Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago, by Tony Bryk. Bryk documents,over a seven-year period, one hundred elementary schools that had substantially improved—and one hundred that had not. In this book, he pulls out what the successful skills did. Key factors for improvement, include school leadership, the professional capacity of the faculty and staff, and a student-centered learning climate. In addition, the authors analyze the impact of social dynamics, including crime, critically examining the
inextricable link between schools and their communities.