Highlights: 2016 Community Schools National Forum
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2016 National Forum Resources
The 2016 National Forum brought together over 1,700 practitioners, advocates, and policymakers from across 44 states and eight countries. Along with these individuals came a wealth of knowledge and resources. Download these resources, including presentation slides and packets, that speakers and presenters used during sessions at the National Forum. You can acccess these resources, by going to the forum schedule on the app, and selecting the workshop you are interested in and downloading resources from the app.
You can also look at our storify of social media activity here.
If you were a presenter and haven't sent in your resources for the field, please contact Jennifer Masutani at masutanij@iel.org. |
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Community Schools Leadership Awards
The Coalition for Community Schools was proud to present awards recognizing excellence in leadership within the community schools field. Read more about the awardees and their achievements.
Media and Press at the National Forum
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Susan Gobreski, Director, and Holly Gonzalez, Deputy Director for the new community schools initiative in Philadelphia were two of the roughly 1,700 educators who attended Albuquerque’s 2016 Community Schools National Forum. Their efforts to join the movement and begin implementing community schools by managing and launching Mayor Kenney’s community schools initiative.
This year’s Rising Together: Community Schools National Forum 2016 showed some of the influences, community schools have in communities like Albuquerque, NM.
Community Schools have become a movement for growth and innovation. Making schools collaborate with communities to increase student learning, health services, youth and community development and engagement are some of the main focuses for the Coalition for Community Schools.
During this year’s Community Schools National Forum, educators from around the nation were able to experience Albuquerque’s homegrown Homework Diner program first hand. The program was designed to bring communities together for the greater good of student’s education.
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