Below are supplementary materials that we recommend you download onto your 2010 National Forum Flash Drive!

Community Schools - Promoting Student Success: A Rationale and Results Framework
The purpose of this document is twofold: First, to outline a rationale for the community school as a primary vehicle for increasing student success and strengthening families and community; and secondly, to define specific results that community schools seek—both in terms of how they function and in relationship to the well being of students, families and communities.

2009 Pennsylvania Community Schools' Summit Brief
The Pennsylvania Community Schools Summit held June 10, 2009 in the state’s Lehigh Valley, provided an opportunity for this kind of discussion and action planning. Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Center for Schools and Communities in Pennsylvania, and the Washington- based Coalition for Community Schools, the one-day event drew representatives from United Ways, school districts, non-profit groups, youth development organizations and others.