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A Guide to Creating Community Schools: The Approach and Experiences of Five Countries in Eurasia

The book provides a step-by-step approach to developing a community school, introduces some advanced community development technologies, and demonstrates that the CS model is a very effective mechanism for mobilizing communities to address their needs in the widest range of social, economic and political environments.

Arts Council: Building Creative Partnerships – a handbook for schools

Creative partnerships is a programme in England which enables schools to work in partnership with other professionals to develop an exciting and relevant curriculum, fostering the creativity of all learners and teachers.

BAWCC's largest community project: The Tenderloin Community School & Family Center

A model of what a school can be. Tenderloin Community School is an area in which children from the Tenderloin have their own School and families have their own Center. It is a source of pride, stability and inspiration of the families...

Community and Family Engagement: Principals Share What Works

The paper explores ways in which principals of community schools work successfully with community partners, families, and other key stakeholders to improve student outcomes.

Community Focused Schools - Making it Happen, A Toolkit

The toolkit provides advice on whole-school planning and the development of Community Focused Schools. It is based on work that is currently taking place in Wales and provides ideas and examples of what Community Focused Schools can achieve.

Community Participation. Who Benefits?

This report explores whether policies to involve people in making decisions about their own communities are effective in building strong social networks.

Community School Development Program. Narrative Report.

The overarching goal of the Program was to develop community schools that promote the development of a new quality partnership between the schools and communities; mobilization of local people's efforts in meeting and solving problems of the communities; realization the concepts of community education and lifelong learning.

Community schools build citizen engagement in Russia

  • Author / organization: Maggie I. Jaruzel, Mott Communications Officer
  • September 1, 2006 Added by Фомина Елена Views: 2440

Elena Fomina, executive director of KCCP, discusses the nonprofit organization’s newest venture in community schools - the launch of a Web site containing information about the Russian and global community education movement - with Mott Communications Officer Maggie I. Jaruzel.

Community Schools Growing in CEE / Russia

The article highlights the development of community schools in various regions of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia where the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has granted its support.

Community-Based Learning: Engaging Students for Success and Citizenship

Discover how community schools are using real-world, hands-on problem solving to ignite the imagination and the intellect of our young people.

Dewey's Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform

...The authors re-examine John Dewey’s idea that schools, specifically community schools, are the best places to foster a racially, socially and economically just democratic society...

DfES: Evaluation of the full service extended schools initiative

A new DfES report shows that full services extended schools in England are having a positive impact for children, their families and communities. The provision of extended services enriches learning, widens access...

From outside to inside schools. Logan Square group lobbied for new buildings, now works to improve classrooms

At the Logan Square Neighborhood Association they believe that creating the strong connection between the parents and the teachers helps break down barriers between the community and schools, as well as enabling students to achieve academically.

Growing Community Schools: The Role of Cross-Boundary Leadership

This report explains the work of leaders who are moving across the traditional boundaries that separate schools from communities to expand opportunities for young people, strengthen...

Leading Across Boundaries: The Community School Way

Community schools challenge the current predominant theory of education reform, which isolates children’s academic development from their social, emotional, civic, and moral development. Community school leaders...

Practical Guide to Community Centers in South East Europe

In this Practical Guide you will find all the necessary information you will need when you want to open a community center—step-by-step instructions you should take into consideration when opening a new center, planning programs, fundraising, promoting your work, and involving partners and volunteers.

Russian NGO leader discusses philanthropy and community schools

Andrey Kortunov is the president of the New Eurasia Foundation, a Mott grantee based in Moscow. Kortunov recently visited Mott’s Flint office and discussed New Eurasia’s work with Communications Officer Maggie I. Jaruzel.

Scaling Up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy

A thriving system of community schools focuses joint community and school resources on student success. Making that happen at scale is the subject of this guide.

Schools celebrate International Community School Day

“Having a day set aside each year to celebrate community schools internationally plays an important role in transforming networks and building partnerships between countries.” Proclaiming a global day for community schools...

Strategy Planning. Workbook.

Strategic planning is a management tool. As with any management tool, it is used for one purpose only: to help an organization do a better job. In this handout we want to share with you the necessity of strategy planning and its main components that have to be followed during the planning process.

Newsletter

Community School movement Newsletter (in Russian) is sent to our subscribers by E-mail once a week.

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