More Schools Open Their Doors to the Whole Community is a Wall Street Journal article about…community schools. Here’s an excerpt: WYOMING, Mich.—On a recent weekday here, a steady stream of people dropped by one central location for food stamps, family counseling and job ideas—their local school. While instruction has ended for the summer, these classrooms […]
Nonprofit and for-profit partners help Cincinnati transform its failing schools is from Ed Source, and provides an excellent overview of the efforts to create community schools in that city. As usual, though, I wish “parents” would have also been in the mix. I’m still adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Community Schools.
Here are my choices for the best posts I’ve written on parent engagement in 2013 — well, at least since April when I published My Best Posts On Parent Engagement In 2013 — So Far (by the way, you can find all my “The Best…” lists related to parent engagement here): Come On, Now – Schools […]
Candidates See Cincinnati as Model for New York Schools is the headline of an article in The New York Times. Here’s an excerpt: Despite its relatively small size, Cincinnati, with roughly 30,000 students, has become a lodestar for big-city school systems across the country. Superintendents and union leaders looking for an alternative to a high-stakes, […]
Syracuse: A Citywide Education Experiment is a Prezi presentation (embedded below) by Sarah Sparks from Education Week. It’s on a pretty interesting effort in…Syracuse. It expands on the idea of community schools, and sounds great. I still have the same concern that I have with most community schools, however — that families might be viewed […]
Here’s a pretty interesting piece in the Huffington Post about community schools in Cincinnati. Here’s an excerpt: A little more than a decade ago, voters passed a bond levy making possible the rebuilding or renovating of every public school in the district. The promise to taxpayers was that the facilities would be much more than […]
“One School, One Year: A Look Inside Oyler School” is a special NPR Markeplace report on a community school in Cincinnati, Ohio. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Community Schools.
School leaders say Oakland’s community school movement will continue, even without Tony Smith is a good article from Ed Source about ambitious plans for community schools in Oakland. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Community Schools.
Partnerships for Learning: Community Support for Youth Success is a new report from The Harvard Family Research Project. Here’s how they describe it: There is strong evidence that, when schools partner with families and community-based organizations, these partnerships for learning improve children’s development and school success. They provide a seamless web of supports designed to […]
Community School Model Seen as Valuable to Rural Areas is an interesting article over at Education Week. I’ve written very positively about community schools in the past, as well as expressing my concerns about them.
“Community & Family Engagement: Principals Share What Works” is a report from The Coalition For Community Schools, and looks useful. Thanks to Joe Mazza for sharing it on Twitter.
I usually just do a year-end list on parent engagement posts and many other topics, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me — and perhaps, to make it a little more useful to readers — I’m going to start […]
I’ve previously posted about the Obama Administration’s “Together For Tomorrow” initiative. Its initial announcement was very vaguely worded about a parent/community/school involvement program. Education Week published a few more details on the program recently, though it still seems a little unclear…I guess it’s an effort to support the development of community schools?
Since I have published so many “The Best…” lists, I thought it might be helpful to readers if I posted a few year-end collections. Here is A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Parent Engagement — 2011: The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids Succeed Academically “The Best Research Available On Parent […]
“The Roles Of Parent & Community Engagement In Student Success: Work Works In Illinois” is a new report published by advocates of Community Schools. Even though it’s focused on Illinois, a lot of the info can be applied anywhere.
School’s a Community Effort in Indiana District is another excellent article by Mary Ann Zehr at Education Week. I’ve written a number of posts about these kind of community schools — ones that connect many community services with students and their families. I’m concerned, though, about many of them relating to parents as clients instead […]
Over the past year-and-a-half, I have posted: My Best Posts & Articles About Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2009 My Best Posts On Parent Engagement So Far This Year It’s been six months since I shared my latest “picks” from my Engaging Parents In School blog, which I began when my book, Building Parent […]
Several national civil rights groups released a proposal for educational policy today, along with launching a National Opportunity to Learn Campaign. Its proposals included a lot of good recommendations related to schools connecting to parents and local communities, including: In our view, the best approach to school turnaround is to reinvent low-performing schools as community […]
I’ve previously written several posts about community schools. Typically, community schools are ones that host multiple social services, as well as regular school classes. Some of them, but I suspect not most, work with parents to design and structure their efforts. But even if they’re done through the lens of looking at parents as “clients” […]
I’ve written posts about Community Schools and how they can help engage families. Typically, community schools are ones that host multiple social services, as well as regular school classes. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was the keynote speaker this week at a Philadelphia conference calling for more Community Schools. Here are some […]