Community-connected learning in community schools: Why it is essential for whole-school transformation
Blog profiling community connected classroom instruction in community schools
Blog profiling community connected classroom instruction in community schools
Guide designed for Community School Directors, offers practical tools and strategies to lead and sustain high quality community schools. It serves as a roadmap to help directors strengthen student supports, engage families, and drive systemic change in their schools and communities.
Guidebook that describes a Youth Participatory Action and Research (YPAR) curriculum using existing YPAR resources and provides recommendations for how educators might develop and implement similar YPAR courses.
Website that provides an overview of the adaptive leadership approach—a leadership style that embraces critical thinking among school staff and students and teaches them to be adaptable problem-solvers themselves. Provides examples adaptive leadership practices, and strategies on how leaders and their teams can cultivate them.
Handbook designed for school, program, and community leaders to support authentic youth participation, promote effective policies and practices to strengthen communities, and support young people’s personal growth.
Video of two high school teachers in Los Angeles, discussing how, at its core, teaching in community schools is different because it requires all school staff to take a whole-child approach to teaching and learning, placing students at the center of school operations and instruction.
Guide that 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.
The Theory of Action for Community School Transformation (Theory of Action) shows how the community school strategy revolves around a continuous improvement cycle which relies on a supportive community school infrastructure.
This website developed by the Minnesota DOE, lists CS organization, then MN specific organization by Key Practices of CS.