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Coalition for Community Schools

Nine Elements of Effective School Community Partnerships to Address Student Mental Health, Physical Health, and Overall Wellness

The Coalition for Community Schools and the National Association of School Psychologists outline nine key elements necessary for creating and sustaining effective partnerships to improve student mental health, physical health, and overall wellness.

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Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools (Full Report) and Executive Summary

This report shows how community schools offer a practical and effective strategy for educating all children to their full potential. Outlines and reviews advantages of community schools and conditions for learning that these advantages create based on research.

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Growing Community Schools: The Role of Cross-Boundary Leadership

The 11 communities profiled in this report illustrate how cross boundary leadership helps community schools move from pilot projects to large-scale, community-wide education reform strategies.

Coalition for Community Schools

Community Schools: Transforming Struggling Schools into Thriving Schools

This report profiles community schools across the country that are implementing evidence-based strategies to bring together the resources of school, family, and community to make schools stronger and help young people thrive.

Coalition for Community Schools

Community Schools: Promoting Student Success – A Rationale and Results Framework

Outlines a rationale for community schools as a primary vehicle for increasing student success and defines specific results that community schools seek both in terms of how they function and in relationship to the wellbeing of students, families, and communities.

Coalition for Community Schools

Community Schools Collaborative Leadership Framework

This framework shows how schools, communities and intermediaries can work together, collaboratively to have successful community schools.

Coalition for Community Schools

Community Schools are an Essential Equity Strategy

The Coalition for Community Schools has developed a framework to embed an equity focus in existing community schools and to drive community schools forward as an equity strategy.

Coalition for Community Schools

Building Blocks: An Examination of the Collaborative Approach Community Schools Are Using to Bolster Early Childhood Development

This report summary provides an overview of community schools, demonstrates the need to invest and link to early childhood programs, describes the case study sites, and offers cross-site lessons.

Media Enterprise Alliance Oakland

Community Schools Animation Video

Based on an animated video project on the role community schools in Oakland, the Coalition for Community Schools joined students from Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in the Media Enterprise Alliance (MEA) journalism and multimedia program sponsored by OUSD's Communications Department and KDOLTV-27, created a video to represent the community schools movement across the country.

Coalition for Community Schools

Aligning Networks to Enable Every Student to Thrive

The Coalition for Community Schools, Communities In Schools and StriveTogether are aligning there efforts through their assets and expertise across networks, across school districts and across communities to drive greater impact for more children.