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A New Day for Learning
http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/ANewDayforLearning.pdf
Time, Learning, and Afterschool Task Force, 2007. (PDF, 48 pgs.) Funded by the C.S. Mott Foundation, this report calls for collaboration between schools, communities, and families to create seamless learning throughout a child's day--in and out of school.
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A Place at the Table
http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/12-03/
Informed by three decades of research—and given new urgency by the No Child Left Behind Act—parent and community involvement in schools is undergoing a paradigm shift. A new model of sustained partnerships and shared decision making is finding its way into the daily operation of schools and districts around the country. In this issue of Northwest Education they profile some of the diverse, dynamic partnerships that are creating this change in the northwest region.
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ACORN: Association of Community Organizatins for Reform Now
http://www.acorn.org/
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 350,000 member families, organized in 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S. and in cities in Canada, the Dominican Republic and Peru.
ACORN's accomplishments include successful campaigns for better housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, job conditions, and more.
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Beacon Centers
http://www.fcny.org/portal.php/syd/beacons/
The focus of Beacons Technical Assistance is the development and dissemination of Beacons, school-based community centers for children, youth and families that are open after school, evenings and weekends. Creating safe, structured, stimulating centers through a wide range of enriching programs and services, Beacons stand as a symbol of hope and opportunity for community renewal.
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Boston Parent Organizing Network (BPON)
http://www.bpon.org/
The Boston Parent Organizing Network (BPON) supports and advocates for the improvement of the Boston Public Schools. Every day, parents and community members are getting involved at every level, from meeting with a child’s teacher to helping shape major policy decisions. They are helping to change the culture of education in Boston into a richly diverse and democratic one. BPON actively works for these changes. The parent organizers and activists of 36 member organizations help parents to become more involved and assume a major role in decisions affecting their children's education. BPON provides a central connection for these efforts and offers resources, training, and funding for organizing projects.
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Broadening the Base: School/Community Partnerships Serving Language Minority Students At Risk
http://crede.berkeley.edu/research/sfc/intro3_1.shtml
Language minority students, including immigrants and the U.S.-born children of immigrants, may have to contend with a mismatch between the language and culture of their schools and those of their homes and communities. To broaden the base of support for these students and to help address their academic needs appropriately, some schools have been partnering with community-based organizations (CBOs). This report outlines findings from a study of school/CBO partnerships that promote the academic achievement of language minority students. It describes the types of CBOs that partner with schools, the ways that partners work together, and the work that they do. Crucial elements of program success are discussed, as well as challenges that partnerships may face. There are recommendations from experienced partners that may benefit new partnerships.
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Center for Community Change: Action Guide for Education Organizing (2004)
http://www.communitychange.org/education/action-guide/
This Action Guide is aimed at experienced community organizers, new to the arena of school reform. The Action Guide will set the context for campaigns, provide sources for research and information, and it will offer examples of campaigns, issues, strategies, and tactics.
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Center for Law and Social Policy - Child Care and Early Childhood
http://www.clasp.org/publications.php?id=3
CLASP’s child care and early education work focuses on promoting policies that support both child development and the needs of low-income working parents and on expanding the availability of resources for child care and early education initiatives. CLASP examines the impact of welfare reform on child care needs; studies the relationships between child care subsidy systems, the Head Start program, pre-kindergarten efforts, and other early education initiatives; and explores how these systems can be responsive to the developmental needs of all children.
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Classroom to Community and Back: Using Culturally Responsive Standards-Based Teaching to Strengthen
http://www.nwrel.org/partnerships/c2cb/c2c.pdf
This resource guide describes how educators can use the knowledge and culture students bring to school in a standards-based curriculum that supports student success. Through foundational research, the publication shows teachers and school leaders how CSRB engages all students in learning; builds relationships between the classroom and the outside world; and creates opportunities for families and community members to support student success in and out of school.
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Coalition for Community Schools
http://www.communityschools.org/
The Coalition for Community Schools is an alliance of national, state and local organizations in education K-16, youth development, community planning and development, family support, health and human services, government and philanthropy as well as national, state and local community school networks. The Coalition advocates for community schools as the vehicle for strengthening schools, families and communities so that together they can improve student learning.
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Communities in Schools, Inc. (CIS)
http://www.cisnet.org/default.asp
This network of local and state programs establishes the community school moel to connect schools and their communities to students and families. Schools partner with community service agencies to provide a variety of health, social, and family services, as well as programs to engage parents, volunteers, mentors, and tutors.
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Community Engagement
http://www.education.ky.gov/KDE/Instructional+Resources/Community+Engagement/
Community Education is one process that engages communities in creating successful education opportunities for all students, as well as opportunities to solve broader community issues. Partnerships provide a unique collaboration between communities and their schools.
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Community Engagement Review and Planning Guide
http://www.idra.org/images/stories/cereview.pdf
This guide is designed to help schools and universities in planning and strengthening community engagement. The guide includes a school-community engagement rubric covering eight categories along with analysis and planning worksheets in each of the categories for monitoring progress. It is available in both English and Spanish.
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Community Involvement Program, Annenberg Institute for School Reform
http://www.annenberginstitute.org/cip/
The work of the Community Involvement Program is guided by a grassroots vision of school reform. They provide training support, organizing strategy, data analysis, and policy research to support urban communities in their struggle for school improvement. They believe that urban public schools fail when communities are disenfranchised and economically. and socially marginalized. They, therefore, assist in strengthening the power, leadership, and vision of neighborhood-based institutions to hold all levels of school systems accountable for educating students well.
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Complementary Learning
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/complementary-learning.html
Supports for students in schools must include complementary learning, a variety of nonschool learning supports, such as families, early childhood programs, out-of-school time activities and programs, higher education, health and social service agencies, businesses, libraries, museums, and other community-based institutions.
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Educating the Whole Child: Grade Your School and Community
http://www.wholechildeducation.org/grade/
Are your school and community delivering? Answer the short questions and find out how well your school and community are doing to prepare our children for the future. Once you click "Get My Grade" below, ASCD will give you a report card and some tips on what you can do with it.
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Education Trust: Parent and Community Engagement
http://www2.edtrust.org/EdTrust/Parents+and+Community
The Education Trust is committed to providing parents and community-based agencies with the tools and help they need to make the most of the reform efforts that are underway in most communities. There is more information available these days than ever before. Use this site to help make the most of it for your kids.
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Family and Community Engagement Survey – Field Test Version
http://www.idra.org/images/stories/survey.pdf
This survey can be used by teachers, administrators and parents to assess a school’s effectiveness in partnering with families and communities. It is a useful tool for planning strategies that are clustered around four domains: (a) student achievement; (b) access and equity; (c) organizational support; and (d) quality of interaction. The questions and ideas used in the guide are gleaned from the literature on effective partnering with communities and families.
(Also available in Spanish)
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Gadfly
http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/gadfly/index.cfm
Gadfly is a free e-mail newsletter about education sponsored by the Thomas B. Forham Foundation. It reflects a generally conservative perspective on issues yet offers a variety of points of view. Gadly occasionally has reports and comments relevant to school-family-community relationships.
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Helping Your Child Succeed
http://www.aft.org/parents/downloads/HYCS2.pdf
This document provides specific strategies for parents as they work with their schools and communities to help children reach high standards.
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High School Reform: What Will It Take to Engage Teens?
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.ef397d712ea0a4a0a89ad324d3108a0c/template.article?arti
Is It Good For the Kids?, ASCD, 2006. (web column) As U.S. schools work to reduce the dropout rate, creative approaches, such as school-community partnerships and career academies, are helping to increase student engagement.
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Involving Communities
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/site/c.kjJXJ5MPIwE/b.1485357/k.560D/Involving_communities.ht
The Center for Public Education recognizes that public schools are not islands. They operate within communities of families, businesses, services, and individuals who all share an interest in the preparation of their younger citizens. Schools that have the support of their stakeholders have a powerful advantage in carrying out their mission. We feature in these pages stories about communities that are involved in making their public schools safe and academically rich places where students can soar.
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Karen Mapp - Family Engagement
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/community/CF5-3-207.html
Karen Mapp, co-author of New Waves of Evidence and professor at Harvard University shares purpose of family and community engagement.
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Minority Community Outreach
http://www.nea.org/mco/index.html
Every child deserves a quality education—regardless of race or ethnicity. Yet despite gains in recent years, significant gaps in academic achievement and opportunity remain for many racial and ethnic groups. NEA is working with partners and allies for: 1) Adequate and equitable school funding; 2) Smaller classes; 3) Increased teacher diversity and salaries; 4) Improved curricula; 5) Better programs for English language learners; 6) Enhanced parental involvement.
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National Community Education Association (NCEA)
http://www.ncea.com
This organizationprovides leadership to those who build learning communities in response to individual and community needs.
It does this by providing its members with national and regional training conferences and workshops; specialized periodicals, publications, and products; opportunities for peer support and networking; and information and referral services. In addition it acts as an advocate for community education by working with related organizations and promoting at the national, state, and local levels: parent and community involvement in public education;
the formation of community partnerships to address community needs; and
the expansion of lifelong learning opportunities for all community residents.
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National Urban League - Education and Youth Programs
http://www.nul.org/educationandyouth.html
The National Urban League Education & Youth Division works to improve educational opportunity for African-American students through scholarships, academic achievement initiatives, early child care/developmental programs, mentoring opportunities and youth leadership development.
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Over Half of Low-Income Children Live with Parent Who Works Regularly
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/sld/snapshot_working.pdf
This report addresses the data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows that in 2005, nearly 29 million U.S. children lived in low-income families. The majority of
these children, or nearly 15 million, had at least one parent who worked regularly, These families are living on the economic edge—despite regular employment—and struggling to make ends meet.
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Pacific Institute for Community Organization (PICO)
http://www.piconetwork.org
PICO brings people of faith together to strengthen families and revitalize communities. With more than one thousand religious congregations and one million families working in 150 cities and towns, PICO is one of the largest grassroots community efforts in the United States.
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Parent and Community Data Guide
http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust/images/dataguidefinal.pdf
This easy-to-use guide gives parents and the public the tools to collect and analyze school data to improve student achievement.
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Parents for Public Schools (PPS)
http://www.parents4publicschools.com/
Parents for Public Schools is a aational organization of community-based chapters working in public schools through broad-based enrollment. nvigorated by a diverse membership, their proactive involvement helps public schools attract all families in a community by making sure all schools effectively serve all children.
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Partnerships by Design: Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships
http://www.nwrel.org/partnerships/pubs/bydesign.html
A complement to the Planning for Youth Success Resource and Training Manual, this practical tool provides simple forms, worksheets, and activities that will help you write your own school-family-community partnership plan, including: * Assessing the current state of your collaboration with families and community members * Forming a vision of what you want your partnerships to look like in the future * Establishing a plan of action that defines simple goals and objectives, outlines options for new partnership activities, and creates a process for regularly evaluating and revising the partnership plan
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Prekinder: Aprendiendo a aprender
http://www.prekinder.org/
This new Spanish language parent web iste was created to help Latino families learn more about early education options, eligibility, and availability in their community in order tomake informed and confident decisions about pre-kindergarten for their child.
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Prekinder: Aprendiendo a aprender
http://www.prekinder.org/
This new Spanish language parent web iste was created to help Latino families learn more about early education options, eligibility, and availability in their community in order tomake informed and confident decisions about pre-kindergarten for their child.
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Principal for a Day Program
http://web.naesp.org/pfad/
Principal for a Day (PFAD) programs have a long track record of success in many school districts. Inviting community leaders to shadow a principal for a day is a concept designed to help participants understand the rewards and rigors of the principalship. PFAD programs have resulted in appreciation and respect for schools, teachers, and principals, and they have built lasting public relations benefits. (National Association of Elementary School Principals)
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Promising Partnership Practices
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/PPP/2006/index.htm
Each year, school, district, organization, and state members of National Network of Partnership Schools (Johns Hopkins University) share their success stories in Promising Partnership Practices. The 2006 collection features 86 practices of school, family, and community partnerships that create a welcoming school climate and support student success from preschool through high school.
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Public Agenda
http://www.publicagenda.org/
Public Agenda, a non-partisan organization, offers regular e-mail reports aobut domestic and world issues, with attention to educational issues. The site carries reports on its focus groups and surveys on educational topics.
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Rethinking Schools
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/
Rethinking Schools provides a monthly newsletter focused on topical issues of education reform, the realities of the classroom, and the importance of teaching for social justice. They believe teachers, parents, and students are essential to building a movement to "go fetch a better future": in classrooms, in schools,and in the larger society.
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Search Institute
http://www.search-institute.org
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates and communicates new knowledge, and brings together community, state, and national leaders.
At the heart of the institute's work is the framework of 40 Developmental Assets, which are positive experiences and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.
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Southern Echo
http://www.southernecho.org
Southern Echo is a leadership education, training and development organization committed to building new, accountable grassroots leadership and organization, based on an inter-generational model, through training, technical ,and legal assistance. Echo staff works with and in support of African-American and working class community leadership and organizations throughout rural Mississippi, and organizations in 11 other Southern states.
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Tellin' Stories
http://www.teachingforchange.org/DC_Projects/Telling_Stories/telling_stories.html
Tellin’ Stories, a program of Teaching for Change, believes that for schools to provide the quality education our children deserve, families, schools and communities must be involved as purposeful partners in the education process. At the heart of Tellin’ Stories’ efforts to engage families and staff is the power of story to connect people from diverse backgrounds, to pass on valuable information and experiences and to organize collective action.
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The Efficacy Institute, Inc.
http://www.efficacy.org/
This nonprofit training and consulting organization works with schools, businesses, and community organizations to provide training, tools, and other services that committed adults can use to accelerate academic achievement and character development of all students.
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