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The Community Schools Playbook
Americans want, need, and deserve excellent schools for all students. Community Schools provide each and every student with the resources, opportunities, and support that make academic success possible and that create strong ties among families, students, schools, and community. This guide provides tools for advancing community schools as a strategy to improve schools, provide more equitable opportunities, and prepare students for success in life and as citizens.
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.