Listing of Publications
Community Schools and Promise Neighborhoods 32.2 KB
01/01/09 Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership
This brief shows how community schools can and should be an integral part of any Promise Neighborhood. All Promise Neighborhood applicants should delineate how they will facilitate schools, regardless of type, becoming centers of their community, through mobilizing and leveraging community assets. The goals must include not only improving academic achievement, but also promoting the social, emotional, physical and
civic development of young people, their families & other community residents.
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Community Schools Fact Sheet(Coalition for Community Schools) 93.2 KB
01/01/09 Coalition for Community Schools
Do you have questions about community schools? What they are? How they function? This list of "Frequently Asked Questions" provides answers to these and other questions. If you still have questions that weren't answered, please email us at: ccs@iel.org.
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Community Schools Across the Nation(Coalition for Community Schools)
01/01/09 Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership
Today, there are a number of national models and local initiatives that create their own flavor of community school. This brief provides an overview of leading initiatives.
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The Community Agenda for America's Public Schools(The Coalition for Community Schools)
09/22/08 The Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership
The challenges our nation faces in educating all of our young people are alarming. The Community Agenda offers common results and solutions, along with actions that YOU can take to help the youth of our nation. Learn more about the results we seek, the strategies to reach the results, actions, and policy recommendations.
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Closing the Achievement Gap: School, Community, Family Connections 747.1 KB
01/01/08 The Annie E. Casey Foundation
This publication provides an in-depth look at Casey’s support of community schools,
including selected results and lessons learned. It also includes stories about one California school district’s innovative parent engagement policy, the Harlem Children’s Zone Practitioners Institute, parent organizing in Texas and Denver, and the Foundation’s contributions to results measurement in the connections field.
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