Sentences with phrase «as a community school»

It was first proposed more than a decade ago just as the community schools model was becoming increasingly popular.

As community schools spread across the country, community school staff need effective approaches to engaging families and community - based partners.

As community schools build out their comprehensive support for students, it doesn't hurt to go back to the basics: Is everyone who's eligible getting free school meals?

In the end, we chose to classify programs as community schools if they showed evidence of the multiple pillars we identified in our research review as central to this model.

Many teacher - powered schools identify as community schools, and vice versa.

Large - scale initiatives, such as the community schools movement, are also designed to increase disadvantaged families» involvement in school by making the school a hub of social services for the neighborhood.

Thursday's press conference was coordinated with a national effort to draw attention to the needs at traditional public schools, and pressure legislators to increase funding for providing those services — an approach known as the community schools model.

Supporting Research and Evaluations As the community schools movement continues to grow in Illinois and across the country so too does the body of research on community school programs.

Moneys in the Fund shall be used solely for the purposes of providing planning grants to school boards or community partnerships as described in subsection C that seek to apply to the Department of Education to designate an elementary or secondary school in the local school division as a community school pursuant to this section.

«We're ranked fourth in the district,» says Jennie Carey Rosenbaum, who joined SJHA as its community school coordinator and is now the school's social - emotional learning initiatives director.

Yet just as it seemed the Court was about to conclude that parochial schools are so good that school choice in Cleveland is meaningless, charter schools - known as community schools in Ohio - were called on to save the pro-voucher argument.

The notion of what Ms. Weingarten describes as community schools is not, as Linda Seebach suggests, that schools become the sole providers of all social services.

Last school year was Glenwood's first as a community school, while Gerald R Ford Academic Center has been with KSSN for seven years.

The United Way acts as a Community Schools backbone partner in many cities across the nation.

Organized as community schools and community school initiatives that seek to grow community schools across their districts, this year's winners from Baltimore, Chicago, LA, and Salt Lake have all committed to ensuring every child has every chance to succeed by recognizing that schools can't address all of these factors — poverty, homelessness, hunger — alone, and that it does indeed take a community to raise a child.

CCSP utilizes dozens of community partners to help enhance CCSP's core academic goals as well as supporting its mission as a Community School.

School, Family and Community Engagement - As a community school created by local community leaders, it is essential to our mission to engage and serve our families and the community.

Deborah Meier is responding to a writing prompt in Richard Elmore's new book: I Used to Think... And Now I Think... 1 In this book, 20 leading educators, researchers, and policy analysts individually reexamine their longstanding views on such school reform topics as community schools, inclusion, the role of unions, the effectiveness of turnaround strategies, and even their faith that any single public policy can make a difference in improving schools.

And there was me thinking that the Regional Schools Commissioners were there to oversee academies and «free» schools, not to persuade those schools sensible enough to remain as community schools that they should become academies.

In Pittsburgh, a city - wide coordinator has been hired, five schools have been designated as community schools, and work is underway to evaluate the needs of schools, neighborhood - by - neighborhood.

This is an important statistic, as community schools aim to target that lowest - performing demographic (McAdoo 2013).

Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) is committed to social and emotional learning (SEL)-- it is central to both its mission and vision as a Community Schools District: «Build a full - service Community District focused on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity, and providing each child with excellent teachers, every day.

Her research reflects urban school reform initiatives such as the community school model, democratic community engagement, culturally relevant family engagement, and the intersection of housing and educational policy, particularly as it impacts vulnerable families.

The community schools program established pursuant to subsection B shall include a process by which school boards and community partnerships consisting of school boards and other community and service providers may apply to the Department of Education to designate an elementary or secondary school in the local school division as a community school.

As a community school coordinator, Bianca works closely with Principal Pete Geerling, assessing the needs of the students and families, and assisting families with access to resources around the community.

As the community schools movement continues to grow in Illinois and across the country so too does the body of research on community school programs.

All of the candidates have said they support the key components of Superintendent Kriner Cash's agenda, such as community schools, lower class sizes and a focus on early literacy.

If the district data shows that a particular neighborhood is struggling with high levels of chronic absence, perhaps the work can be aligned with existing community resources targeting the same geographic area, such as a community schools or neighborhood revitalization effort.

The grant program will fund successful strategies, such as community schools, which align support services including health and mental health providers to remove barriers to learning and address the underlying causes of chronic absence and trauma.

The bill requires such program to include a process by which school boards and community partnerships may apply to the Department of Education to designate an elementary or secondary school in the local school division as a community school.

The press conference highlighted the crisis LA public schools face, the causes, and community solutions such as community schools, increasing revenues and per pupil spending, and utilizing the contract bargaining process to win victories for the entire school community.