Achieving Results through Community School Partnerships: How District and Community Leaders Are Building Effective, Sustainable Relationships

Autor/inn/en	Blank, Martin J.; Jacobson, Reuben; Melaville, Atelia
Institution	Center for American Progress
Titel	Achieving Results through Community School Partnerships: How District and Community Leaders Are Building Effective, Sustainable Relationships
Quelle	(2012), (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stakeholders; Social Services; Unions; Community Development; Community Leaders; Local Government; Community Resources; Community Schools; School Community Relationship; Partnerships in Education; School Districts; Public Agencies; Community Organizations; Organizational Communication; Sustainability; Capacity Building; Financial Support; Educational Policy; Educational Improvement; Improvement Programs; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; Educational Change; Family Involvement; Program Descriptions; Interviews; Content Analysis; California; Illinois; Indiana; New York; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Community leadership; Gemeindeleitung; Gemeindeverwaltung; Community school; ; Gemeindeschule; Gemeinschaftsschule; Hochschulpartnerschaft; School district; Schulbezirk; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Nachhaltigkeit; Finanzielle Förderung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Effizienzsteigerung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Bildungsreform; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Inhaltsanalyse; Kalifornien
Abstract	A community school is a place and a set of partnerships connecting a school, the families of students, and the surrounding community. A community school is distinguished by an integrated focus on academics, youth development, family support, health and social services, and community development. The community school strategy is central to efforts to improve America's public schools. Community schools use partnerships to align school and community resources in order to produce successful students, strong families, and engaged communities. This paper outlines how school and community leaders develop a common vision for a community schools strategy and explores six key strategies that successful community school initiatives use to build effective partnerships with local government agencies, teachers' unions, and other organizations. It begins by describing the elements of a community school strategy, then draws on the experiences of several community school initiatives that use the following strategies to form and maintain key relationships: (1) Ensure that all partners share a common vision; (2) Establish formal relationships and collaborative structures to engage stakeholders; (3) Encourage open dialogue about challenges and solution; (4) Engage partners in the use of data; and (5) Create and empower central-office capacity at the district level to sustain community school work; and (6) Leverage community resources and braid funding streams. (Contains 1 figure and 12 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10