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Growing Readers
Growing Readers
Growing Readers

Best Beginnings provides early literacy resources to encourage parents and caregivers to read with their children to prepare them for Kindergarten.
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The California Department of Education - Common Core State Standards
The California Department of Education - Common Core State Standards
The California Department of Education - Common Core State Standards

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).
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Read Across America
Read Across America
Read Across America

This campaign focuses on developing students' love of reading through reading events across the country.
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Strategies for School and Faith-Based Leaders - Building Partnerships for Student Success
Strategies for School and Faith-Based Leaders - Building Partnerships for Student Success
Strategies for School and Faith-Based Leaders - Building Partnerships for Student Success

This article provides strategies for schools and community-based organizations to collaborate that leads to student success.
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Community Schools Bridging the Gap Between School and Home
Community Schools Bridging the Gap Between School and Home
Community Schools Bridging the Gap Between School and Home

This article from NEA Today describes the role that community schools can have in connecting student and their families to community resources.
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Sharing Responsibility for the Whole Child
Sharing Responsibility for the Whole Child
Sharing Responsibility for the Whole Child

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.
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What is a Community School?
What is a Community School?
What is a Community School?

The Coalition for Community Schools website provides resources for families, students and school leaders.
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Community School Standards
Community School Standards
Community School Standards

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.
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School and Business Partnerships That Work - Success Stories
School and Business Partnerships That Work - Success Stories
School and Business Partnerships That Work - Success Stories

Business-school partnership success stories that share ideas to help schools build successful partnerships.
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How to Give Students Future Ready Skills through Community Service
How to Give Students Future Ready Skills through Community Service
How to Give Students Future Ready Skills through Community Service

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.
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Keeping Family/Community/School Connections Helps Support Secondary Schools Success
Keeping Family/Community/School Connections Helps Support Secondary Schools Success
Keeping Family/Community/School Connections Helps Support Secondary Schools Success

This policy brief explains the positive impact of parent, family and community engagement and involvement on student success in secondary schools
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Community Engagement for Early Childhood Learning
Community Engagement for Early Childhood Learning
Community Engagement for Early Childhood Learning

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.
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Collaborations with Public Libraries and the Benefits to Early Childhood Education
Collaborations with Public Libraries and the Benefits to Early Childhood Education
Collaborations with Public Libraries and the Benefits to Early Childhood Education

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.
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Reading Partners - Take Action
Reading Partners - Take Action
Reading Partners - Take Action

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.
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Building Mutually Beneficial Relationships Between Schools and Communities: The Role of a Connector
Building Mutually Beneficial Relationships Between Schools and Communities: The Role of a Connector
Building Mutually Beneficial Relationships Between Schools and Communities: The Role of a Connector

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.
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Faith-Based and Community Leaders Early Learning Toolkit
Faith-Based and Community Leaders Early Learning Toolkit
Faith-Based and Community Leaders Early Learning Toolkit

This toolkit provides specific guidelines and strategies to empower faith-based and community leaders to help young African-American children and families thrive.
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The Positive Effects of Youth Community Engagement
The Positive Effects of Youth Community Engagement
The Positive Effects of Youth Community Engagement

This resource details the importance of youth engagement and the positive effects associated with empowering youth to participate in the community.
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What Is Community Engagement?
What Is Community Engagement?
What Is Community Engagement?

This article provides a model of the different levels of community involvement and identifies research-based benefits of community engagement.
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Detroit District Aims for Faith-Based Partnerships for Every School to Support Student Needs
Detroit District Aims for Faith-Based Partnerships for Every School to Support Student Needs
Detroit District Aims for Faith-Based Partnerships for Every School to Support Student Needs

This article describes one Detroit school district's partnership with faith-based groups to support students.
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5 Steps to Better School/Community Collaboration
5 Steps to Better School/Community Collaboration
5 Steps to Better School/Community Collaboration

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.
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School-Community Learning Partnerships: Essential to Expanded Learning Success
School-Community Learning Partnerships: Essential to Expanded Learning Success
School-Community Learning Partnerships: Essential to Expanded Learning Success

This article by Pricilla Little explores the role of community partnerships in expanding learning opportunities for students.
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Benefits of Community Service for College Students
Benefits of Community Service for College Students
Benefits of Community Service for College Students

Habit for Humanity article details the positive effects of community service on college students.
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School and Community: An Important Link
School and Community: An Important Link
School and Community: An Important Link

This article reviews the importance of developing a link between schools and the community.
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10 Tips for Volunteering Wisely
10 Tips for Volunteering Wisely
10 Tips for Volunteering Wisely

This article describes 10 recommendations to help community members volunteer wisely.