Resources
“This is a model that needs to be lifted up.”
- Patrick Tutwiler, Massachusetts Education Secretary & Acting DESE Commissioner
Illustrating the Promise of Community Schools
In this study, the authors assessed the impact of the NYC-CS through the 2017–2018 school year. The authors assessed the effects along seven outcome domains and explored the extent to which there is heterogeneity in programmatic impact based on student- and school-level characteristics.
Building a Community Schools System Guide
Building a Community Schools System is written for diverse audiences engaged in Community Schools efforts in their local contexts, from planning to integrate the Community Schools strategy in their district and community to existing initiatives of schools looking to further sustain, deepen, and perhaps, expand the strategy. The audiences for the guide are inclusive of leaders at school, district, community, civic, government, and business levels, funders, alongside families, young people, individual community members, grass-roots advocates.
Community Schools Forward
There is a significant and growing interest in the community schools strategy among federal, state, and local governments seeking to advance educational and economic opportunities and address historic educational inequities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Building off this momentum and with support from Ballmer Group, four national partners—the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution (CUE), the Children’s Aid National Center for Community Schools (NCCS), the Coalition for Community Schools (CCS) at IEL, and the Learning Policy Institute (LPI)—are collaborating with education practitioners, researchers, and policymakers across the country to implement and scale up community schools in a joint project called Community Schools Forward.
GUIDE: The State Coalition Stages of Development
The State Coalition Stages of Development serve as a guide for states as they build or scale their State Coalition for Community Schools with a focus on four strategies: Policy and Advocacy, Professional Learning Networks, Communications, and Partner Engagement and Governance. State Coalitions for Community Schools often progress through the stages of development at a different pace for each of the four strategies, depending on local momentum and context, therefore this guide is broken into the four separate strategies. Included in each strategy are best practice examples collected from existing State Coalitions for Community Schools and additional contextual resources.
BLOG: Community Schools: A Powerful Strategy to Disrupt Inequitable Systems
Poverty and unequal educational opportunity have forever been an ugly tangle in America's fiber. We believe, however, there are now pragmatic strategies to reweave democracy. These strategies would address both educational needs and the effects of poverty through a personalized, whole child approach to schooling.
Outcomes and Indicators for Community Schools: A Guide for Implementers and Evaluators
A review of the logic behind community schools, depict the standard impact areas and outcome goals identified in the Theory of Action, and specify short- and medium-term outcomes and measures that, using multiple sources of data, can be used to monitor progress and inform continuous improvement of the local strategy.