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State Coalitions Stages of Development Rubric

Stages of Development for creating and growing your State Coalition.

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Community Schools: Supporting One Another As A Blueprint for the Future

This blueprint provides examples of how Community Schools effectively responded to the pandemic, highlighting “how” Community Schools operate through collaborative leadership, and offers recommendations for state and local educators, community leaders, and others on how to leverage Community Schools as a core strategy for communities to efficiently and effectively recover while transforming education and accelerating economic mobility.

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Six Strategies To Build Empowering Youth Engagement

This report has three objectives:​ 1) To create greater awareness of youth (ages 12-25) experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.​ 2) To highlight clear recommendations and examples of how different communities have been able to address and meet the needs of youth​. 3) To provide a clear process to develop and implement empowering youth engagement strategies.

Martin J. Blank, Ira Harkavy , Jane Quinn, and Lisa R . Villarreal

PARTNER SHIPS FOR EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE: THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL STRATEGY

The American Rescue Plan Act offers school and community leaders an unprecedented opportunity to reinvigorate our public schools as engines of equity and democracy.

MASFEC

Massachusetts Family, School, and Community Partnership Fundamentals

Version 2.0 A COMPANION DOCUMENT TO MASSACHUSETTS FAMILY ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR PRACTITIONERS AND EDUCATORS

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Community Schools Collaborative Leadership Framework

A key resource for the Coalition for Community School Leadership Network

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Scaling Up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy Handout

This Guide is helpful for anyone engaged in a place-based strategy including community schools, Promise Neighborhoods, Choice Neighborhoods, and other cradle-to-career efforts.

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The Role of Community Schools in Place-Based Initiatives – Collaborating for Student Success

This paper demonstrates that Community schools offer a powerful vision and strategy for what schools should look like within broader place-based initiatives and how community schools can benefit from alignment with other efforts.