In this continuum, IEL's early learning work and its linkage with elementary education,
its community schools work, and its emerging work for early adolescents all have a significant role to play.
Multiple research studies show that
community schools work, including a recent Child Trends meta - analysis that found that community schools support young people's needs, reduce grade retention and dropout rates, and increase attendance, math achievement, and grade - point averages.15
United Ways can serve many roles within a community school strategy as a: key leader in the community leadership group, an intermediary organization managing
the community schools work, a lead agency or a funder that provides the necessary resources needed.
Develop and promote a state - level policy framework (administrative and legislative) that supports local
community schools work, including a focus on the range of contributing funding streams
Community schools work is founded on a strong instructional core program with qualified and supported teachers, a challenging curriculum, and high standards.
Continuous improvement is at the heart of
community schools work.
The National Center for Community School's description of
community schools work including: definition, goals, components, examples and results.
«Research shows that sustainable
community schools work because a community understands what their children and their families need.»
California has years of experience doing
community schools work.
For our October Spotlight, we get to know both principals a little better, and get their advice for other principals on how to make
community schools work in their buildings.
We're excited to be rolling out a new online network to connect every level of
community schools work in California.
This toolkit from the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice and the Center for Popular Democracy gives an overview of how
community schools work and how advocates can push for them in their own cities and districts.
José will build on the strong foundation of
community schools work across the country and lead the Coalition to ever increasing its visibility, resources, and impact in the lives of children, youth, adults, and families.
Earl Boynes from Multnomah community school initiatives highlight aspects of their MITM -
Community Schools work.
In 2006, Kent School Services Network (KSSN) began
its community school work in eight pilot schools.
ESSA also offers several opportunities for increased support for
community school work.
Opportunities to Fund
Community School Work Using Flexibility Offered by the Every Student Succeeds Act Plan:
Not exact matches
In his new book Leading the Life You Want, Wharton
School professor Stew Friedman identifies four key spheres of life: family,
work, friends and
community and health (mental and spiritual).
The MDR division of Dun & Bradstreet
works to help companies engage with the best educators for their brands through online
communities such as WeAreTeachers, WeAreParents, EdNET, and
School Leaders Now.
As they searched for an education - related idea, they were amazed to discover that while many companies were
working on aggregating primary and middle
schools into an online
community, no one had yet wired together the nation's 20,000 high
schools.
We're increasing enrollment in high - quality early education, raising standards in our public
schools as a leader in implementing the Common Core curriculum and
working with the business
community on STEM programs that are relevant to the job market.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters, a coffee shop and wholesaler in Portland, Oregon,
works with coffee farmers to create programs for farmworkers, including nutrition education and funding for
schools in the farmworkers»
communities.
It broke ground in March that year with the help of teachers and students from a local
school and, to this day, continues to
work with the
community, donating some of its 2,000 pounds of produce each year to local organizations.
«I am delighted to recognize this fifth - generation Calgarian and Haskayne
School of Business alumnus» achievements in both his career and
work in the
community with the 2016 Management Alumni Excellence Award.»
Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF
works with
communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in
school,
work and life.
The Forte Foundation is a consortium of major corporations and top business
schools working together to launch women into fulfilling, significant careers through access to business education, opportunities, and a
community of successful women.
When Lonny is not
working to make a positive impact in his
community, he hangs out at home with his wife, dogs, and 3 children including his daughter who is a freshman in the drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School.
Along with the rainbow in the sky Monday morning, teachers heading into
work to prepare for Wednesday were greeted at the
school's entrance by parents and members of the Parkland
community showing their support with signs.
Every year, the
community involvement competition encourages
school teams to log volunteer hours and raise money for charitable organizations by
working with external organizations and through our annual Chillin» For Charity event.
Contact
community groups and local
schools to see how you can
work with students who could use extra academic support.
Building better
communities Better
communities come when governments
work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water,
schools and transit that are the framework for a
community's Quality of Life.
The primary business of Hobby Quest is after -
school programs for children aged 5 to 14 years old,
working mainly with and in
schools and
community centers.
Maybe New York could look at Portland OR and see how well religion, public
schools and
community action can
work together.
I
work in California... what I do is behavioral based counseling for children who have behavioral issues, be it in the home or the
school or
community.
Episode 2: 02 Track 2 In this episode, Laura, the facilitator, at the politically correct
Community School is interrupted in her attempt to put the x over X-mas by a visit from Sarah Parker - Drew, the major donor, and her friend Ronald Cordon - Smith (a fan of Laura and her
work there).
As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in
schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to
work as a professional in the
community.
Most Mormon women of my generation are college educated (actually were my mother and grandmother),
working women or if they are at home, are active in their
schools,
communities, etc. while they raise their kids.
Schools such as these, as well as the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, were founded on the basis of a
community of Masters and students who lived,
worked, ate and prayed together.
Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must
work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human
community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their
schools, etc..»
Do you have any advice or ideas for those of us at home with small children, or
working the daily grind 9 - 5 jobs, or in
school full - time to honor our commitments to family,
work and
school while simultaneously
working to benefit our
communities?
This particular YMCA included, «a great mix of high - end yuppie fitness facility, a wonderful
community resource for families, and an old -
school residence for disenfranchised men,» so Fey shares a host of funny stories about
working the front desk.
It isn't until I sit down and do my
work again that I return to the rest of my life — homemaking, raising children,
community, church,
school, marriage, all of it — as my most true self.
A
school whose concrete identity is that of a church - like
community tending to understand God by way of contemplation is likely to include more course
work in spirituality, especially ascetical theology, than is a
school whose ethos is that of a cadre of clergy tending to understand God by the activist way.
My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional
school board meeting... When doing inter-faith
work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our
community) as a positive.
Our
work with families and
communities in Guatemala, as well as churches and
schools from the U.S. has forced us to ask these questions daily.
So, a lot of the children, certainly that we
work with and a lot of the
communities that we're based in have seen houses come down, but the
schools and the big buildings that we've been part of helping rebuild; they're still standing.»
I've also been freshly convicted about the importance of strengthening my relationships with
schools, nonprofits, and
community organizations here in East Tennessee, and am considering new ways to volunteer / contribute that will
work for our family over the long haul.
The
community is more than the state.48 The creative and redemptive
work of God we may readily admit depends perhaps more basically upon the voluntary associations, the
communities of artists, the scientists, and the
schools than upon the political order.
The general question is: What is the
community in which the theological
schools carry on their
work and which they in part represent?
No other approach to an educational problem seems possible, since a
school is never separable from the
community in which it
works, whose living tradition it carries on, into which it sends citizens and leaders imbued with that tradition and committed to the social values.