Research and Evaluation for Continuous Improvement

The Community Schools Evaluation Toolkit is designed to help community schools evaluate their efforts so that they learn from their successes, identify current challenges, and plan future efforts accordingly. It provides a step-by-step process for planning and conducting an evaluation at your community school site(s).

Evaluating the Operations of Your Community School

The tools that helped you assess the readiness of your school to become a community school can help you assess the progress of the operations of your community school.

• Evaluate Operations of Your Community School Toolkit
• Partnership Compliance Checklist (Portland, OR)

Tracking Impact on Students, Families, & Community

• Results and Corresponding Indicators – This chart helps you understand how processes of community schools fit together for results for children, families, and communities and the short and long term indicators to measure those results.
• Data Collection Plan for Demo School
• Data Collection Surveys 

          Surveys for Short Term Results
          Surveys for Long Term Results

Hartford Community Schools Evaluation (2009-2011) and Evidence of Progress Chart (Hartford, CT)
Templates for Reports and Annual Plans (Portland, OR)