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Community
schools across America are improving student learning and strengthening
families and communities in many measurable ways.
Location:
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall (previously Gutman
Center), Cambridge, MA
Time:
8 AM- 4 PM
Forum Goal: To
deepen the understanding of community schools and the commitment to their
expansion.
Forum Objectives:
- Promote the community schools vision and
strategy among local policy makers.
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of community
schools across the Northeast.
- Provide tools and resources to help make
the case for community schools.
- Build the capacity of participants to
create, lead and sustain community schools.
- Provide opportunities to interact with
local policy makers and hear their views on the importance of
community schools.
- Make connections among advocates for
community schools within and across the Northeastern states.
- Hear practitioners and leaders share their
personal experiences and successes with community schools
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Audience:
The forum will provide New England educators, child, youth, family and
community agency service providers, parents, policy-makers, and members
of the philanthropic and business communities with an opportunity to learn
how important full-service/community schools are for students, schools,
families and communities -- now more than ever.
Key Presenters:
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Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston,
MA
Mayor David Cicilline of Providence, RI
Dr. Melody Johnson, Superintendent of Providence Public Schools
Dr. Karen Mapp, Interim Deputy Superintendent for Family
and Community Engagement of Boston Public Schools
Juanita B. Wade, Chief of
Human Services, City of Boston, Executive Director, Boston Centers
for Youth and Families
Lewis Feldstein, co-author with Robert Putnam
of Better Together: Restoring the American Community.
Dr. Lloyd Kolbe, former director, Division of Adolescent
School Health, Centers for Disease Control
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Organizers:
Coalition for Community Schools and the Boston Full-Service Schools Roundtable
Co-Sponsors:
Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Boston College Center for Child, Family
and Community Partnerships-CONNECT Five; Boston Public Health Commission;
Community Schools-Rl of the United Way of Rhode Island; EDC's Center for
School and Community Health and Center for Mental Health Promotion and
Violence Prevention; Face-to-Face Program/The Home for Little Wanderers;
Harvard Graduate School of Education; Institute for Educational Leadership;
Institute for Responsive Education; Parents' PLACE/MA State-wide Parent
Information Resource Center (PIRC); Vermont Association of Regional Partnerships
and other community partners across New England.
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Registration
is now closed!