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Collaboration between the community, faith-based organizations and school systems encourage the overall support of students of all ages. Partnerships can help connect families with needed supports and services.
The California Department of Education (CDE) describes the California Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and provides resources for teachers, administrators, students and parents, higher education, and community partners (see various tabs under the Resources subsection).
This campaign focuses on developing students' love of reading through reading events across the country.
This article provides strategies for schools and community-based organizations to collaborate that leads to student success.
This article from NEA Today describes the role that community schools can have in connecting student and their families to community resources.
This paper addresses how to develop the whole child in the context of a high-stakes testing policy and to identify strategies that would make it possible for policymakers and practitioners in education and related fields to pursue a more balanced approach to educating our children.
The Coalition for Community Schools website provides resources for families, students and school leaders.
The Community School Standards are designed to help improve the quality of community school implementation. The standards provide an in-depth description of community schools, including a self-assessment.
Business-school partnership success stories that share ideas to help schools build successful partnerships.
The purpose of this post is to help you get started with your community service program and provide simple strategies for how to empower your students to develop future-ready skills.
The Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) provides a series of resources for business, government, community, and faith-based leaders to provide meaningful collaboration between early childhood staff, families, and community services.
This document provides a list of some local and national websites sponsored by libraries and links to research articles. The list also offers descriptions of collaborations between public libraries and early childhood education.
Reading Partners mobilizes communities to provide students with individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade. They partner with under-resourced schools and provide volunteer reading partners to work one-on-one with students who struggle with reading.
This report describes and analyses a successful effort to create a school-community connector, a person whose job it is to find and build relationships with a wide range of neighborhood assets (residents, voluntary associations, local institutions, businesses) and then connect them to the neighborhood school.
This article describes one Detroit school district's partnership with faith-based groups to support students.
This Edutopia.org article shares several steps to improve collaboration between schools and their community. As the old African proverb says, It takes a village to raise a child. One could imagine then that it would take a community to raise a school.
This article by Pricilla Little explores the role of community partnerships in expanding learning opportunities for students.
Habit for Humanity article details the positive effects of community service on college students.
This article reviews the importance of developing a link between schools and the community.
This article describes 10 recommendations to help community members volunteer wisely.
This essay by Freeman Hrabowski explores the role and responsibility, a community plays in student success.
Developed by National PTA with the help of parents and principals, these tips are part of an overall strategy for building relationships with principals to improve student achievement.
This study examined the effects of involvement in campus-based religious organizations on first year students’ adjustment and development.
Volunteer Match helps match those who need volunteers with those wanting to volunteer.
Youth.gov provides a series of resources and information surrounding various youth topics. Website users can engage with other youth, implement evidence-based programming, and locate program funding in their community.
