Community Schools: An Effective Strategy During the Coronavirus Crisis

This Guide is helpful for anyone engaged in a place-based strategy including community schools, Promise Neighborhoods, Choice Neighborhoods, and other cradle-to-career efforts.

Version 2.0 A COMPANION DOCUMENT TO MASSACHUSETTS FAMILY ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR PRACTITIONERS AND EDUCATORS

Return, Recover and Reimagine: 10 Ideas to Support a Renaissance in America’s Public Schools (from Randi Weindgarten speech)

Learn all about the basics of what a Community School is.

A key resource for the Coalition for Community School Leadership Network

On February 11th, we hosted a webinar on racial justice and equity. To understand how community schools are interpreting and reaching racial equity and justice, this webinar illuminated a community school study from New York that speaks to the transformative practices through a liberatory education for Black and Brown youth. Panelists: Dr. Hui-Ling Malone, Assistant Professor of English Secondary Education, Michigan State University Dariella Rodriguez, Director of Community Development, The Point Dalyla Santiago, Recent High School Alum Dr. Jessica Shiller, IEL Coalition for Community Schools ResearchPractice Network Researcher Co-Chair, Associate Professor, Towson University (facilitator)

The Coalition for Community Schools is a national alliance of more than 170 organizations that advocate for community schools. A founding member of the Coalition, Children’s Aid, started its first community school in New York City in 1992. Widespread interest in the initiative has led to more than 7,500 community schools nationwide.

For the current 117th Congressional session, the Coalition co-developed with our partners a federal policy agenda that guides our federal advocacy.

This policy agenda is the Institute for Educational Leadership’s inaugural Policy by the People agenda, which reflects the direct input via surveys and focus groups of hundreds of leaders across IEL’s networks that we engaged in 2020. These leaders span the roles of parents/family, youth age 18 and under, district leaders, nonprofit leaders, state and local government representatives, people with disabilities, and elected officials across dozens of communities in the United States.