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Community Schools Forward Essential Resources
The Community Schools strategy transforms a school into a place where educators, local community members, families, and students work together to strengthen conditions for student learning and healthy development. As partners, they organize in- and out-of-school resources, supports, and opportunities so that young people thrive.
The Community Schools Forward task force, convened by four national partners —the Center for Universal Education at Brookings, the Children’s Aid National Center for Community Schools, the Institute for Educational Leadership’s Coalition for Community Schools, and the Learning Policy Institute—has spent much of the last year bringing together national and local Community School practitioners and advocates to identify and create field-informed resources to align, build, and scale evidence-based, effective, and sustainable Community Schools.
Financing Community Schools: A Framework for Growth and Sustainability
A companion brief to the Community Schools Playbook, that introduces a framework for financing community schools that reflects tested practices, as well as, provide examples of how community schools at varying stages of development can identify and implement financing strategies.
Community School Site Standards
The Community School Standards aim to help new community schools more effectively develop and implement their community school plans; assist existing community schools to strengthen the quality of their practice and document outcomes; and provide a consistent language and framework for advocacy, technical assistance, research, funding, and policy efforts.
Community Schools: A Whole-Child Framework for School Improvement
A framework on how Community Schools addresses the needs of the whole-child as well as how states can support this model.
A Framework for More and Better Learning through Community School Partnerships
This paper provides a learning framework on how community schools systemically promote better learning through results-focused community partnerships.
This report synthesizes the research evidence about the impact of community schools on student and school outcomes. Its aim is to support and inform school, community, district, and state leaders as they consider, propose, or implement community schools as a strategy for providing equitable, high-quality education to all young people.
What Is the Impact of the New York City Community Schools Initiative?
This research brief highlights the impact of the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) initiative, New York City Community Schools Initiative (NYC-CS) along seven outcome domains (attendance, educational attainment, academic performance, disciplinary inci-dents, teachers’ shared responsibility for student success, student connectedness to adults and peers, and family empowerment opportunities).
RETURN On INVESTMENT of a Community School Coordinator
This case study calculates the return-on-investment for a Community School Coordinator, the person who oversees implementation of the Community Schools strategy, and shares responsibility for the outcomes.
This case study calculates the return-on-investment for a Community School Coordinator, the person who oversees implementation of the Community Schools strategy, and shares responsibility for the outcomes.
Click here to view the “What the Four Pillars of Community School Look Like In Action” infographic.