Listing of Publications
Engaging the Community: Strategies that Work(Atelia Melaville and Martin J. Blank ) 2.3 MB
01/01/05 Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership and Cable in the Classroom
This Summer 2005 issue of Threshold Magazine on engaging the community and leaders. A featured article, “Engaging the Community: Strategies that Work,” identifies leadership strategies for engaging community stakeholders to create effective community schools. Building upon the points made in the article, the magazine features a helpful pull-out diagram which identifies key stakeholders and illustrates how all community leaders can contribute to creating improved conditions for student learning.
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Health and Fitness Influence Learning and Academic Achievement (John P. Allegrante)
12/01/04 Education Week
This Ed Week article discusses the implications of cutting physical education programs in public schools. This commentary underscores the importance of integrating health and physical fitness into the school and argues that research shows physical activity and nutrition are important components in academic achievement.
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Multiple Measures(Ronald A. Wolk)
10/01/04 Education Week
This Ed Week article critiques America's unnecessary, detrimental "obsession" with standardized testing. Wolk contends that education has shifted its focus from standard-based reform to test-based reform, largely due to punitive regulations set by the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Promising Practices in Citywide Afterschool Initiatives 27.6 KB
06/01/04 Bay Area Partnership, California
This piece features promising practices in city-wide afterschool initiatives with a focus at the infrastructure level. Elements include communication systems, public relations, leadership models, information collection activities, resource distribution, goal setting, sustainability planning, linkage to resources, etc. This report covers the most promising examples of infrastructure development that strengthen and support citywide afterschool initiatives.
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Community Involvement: A Win-Win Approach To School Facilities Planning 3.5 MB
04/01/04 Association of School Business Officials International
This article offers "how to" of involving community members in planning a school facility has not been practically explored. It provides a conceptual framework of how to involve the community by initiating a win-win approach to school facility planning.
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