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Collaboration between the community, faith-based organizations and school systems encourage the overall support of students of all ages. Partnerships can help connect families with needed supports and services.
This research-to-practice brief emphasizes the importance of developing relationships during infant and early childhood care.
EdX provides free online courses to help students and adults advance their careers and personal knowledge.
This article lists and describes several service opportunities for college graduates.
Every college-bound teen knows that high school community service is a key component of any college application. Suzanne Schafer offers community service ideas for those bound for college.
This article describes how job seekers can prepare through mock interviews.
The Muse highlights a variety of resources from experts related to common career questions.
This article discusses tips for employers to support and train new hires.
The Molina Foundation works hand-in-hand with community-based organizations in vulnerable communities. They are committed to improving healthy child development with a focus on access to literacy, language, and early childhood education through their programs: Book Buddies, WordUp and On My Way to Kindergarten.
Best Beginnings discusses the importance of children's first five years, provides activities and resources for parents and educators to support whole child development, and identifies steps community members and businesses can take to support early child development.
Best Beginnings provides early literacy resources to encourage parents and caregivers to read with their children to prepare them for Kindergarten.
The California Department of Education (CDE) describes the California Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and provides resources for teachers, administrators, students and parents, higher education, and community partners (see various tabs under the Resources subsection).
This campaign focuses on developing students' love of reading through reading events across the country.
This article provides strategies for schools and community-based organizations to collaborate that leads to student success.
This article from NEA Today describes the role that community schools can have in connecting student and their families to community resources.
This paper addresses how to develop the whole child in the context of a high-stakes testing policy and to identify strategies that would make it possible for policymakers and practitioners in education and related fields to pursue a more balanced approach to educating our children.
The Coalition for Community Schools website provides resources for families, students and school leaders.
The Community School Standards are designed to help improve the quality of community school implementation. The standards provide an in-depth description of community schools, including a self-assessment.
Business-school partnership success stories that share ideas to help schools build successful partnerships.
The purpose of this post is to help you get started with your community service program and provide simple strategies for how to empower your students to develop future-ready skills.
This policy brief explains the positive impact of parent, family and community engagement and involvement on student success in secondary schools
The Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) provides a series of resources for business, government, community, and faith-based leaders to provide meaningful collaboration between early childhood staff, families, and community services.
This document provides a list of some local and national websites sponsored by libraries and links to research articles. The list also offers descriptions of collaborations between public libraries and early childhood education.
Reading Partners mobilizes communities to provide students with individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade. They partner with under-resourced schools and provide volunteer reading partners to work one-on-one with students who struggle with reading.
This report describes and analyses a successful effort to create a school-community connector, a person whose job it is to find and build relationships with a wide range of neighborhood assets (residents, voluntary associations, local institutions, businesses) and then connect them to the neighborhood school.