Building School-Community Partnerships
eBook - ePub

Building School-Community Partnerships

Collaboration for Student Success

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Building School-Community Partnerships

Collaboration for Student Success

About this book

How can we partner with our communities to improve school programs and increase students? success?

This current era of high stakes testing, accountability, and shrinking educational budgets demands that schools seek bold and innovative ways to build strong learning environments for all students. Community involvement is a powerful tool in generating resources that are essential for educational excellence.

Building School-Community Partnerships: Collaboration for Student Success
emphasizes the importance of community involvement for effective school functioning, student support and well-being, and community health and development. This sharp, insightful book serves as an excellent resource for educators seeking to establish school-community partnerships to achieve goals for their schools and the students, families, and communities they serve. Schools can collaborate with a wide variety of community partners to obtain the resources they need to achieve important goals for students? learning. Some of these partners may include:

  • Businesses and corporations
  • Universities and other institutions of higher learning
  • National and local volunteer organizations
  • Social service agencies and health partners
  • Faith-based organizations and institutions

Work successfully with community partners to improve school programs and curricula, strengthen families, and expand your students? learning experiences!

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Information

Publisher
Corwin
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781412917650
eBook ISBN
9781452280899
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About the Author
  9. Dedication
  10. 1. Community Involvement: Why and What?
  11. 2. A Closer Look at Common Community Partnerships
  12. 3. Components of Successful Community Partnerships
  13. 4. Building Capacity for Successful Community Partnerships: A Vignette
  14. 5. Bringing the Community In: An Elementary School Story
  15. 6. Creating Closer Community Ties: A High School Study
  16. 7. Promising Practices for Community Partnerships
  17. 8. Preparing Educational Leaders for Community Partnerships: A Workshop Agenda
  18. 9. Concluding Thoughts
  19. Resource A: Sample Activities
  20. Resource B: Sample Letters
  21. Endnotes
  22. References
  23. Index