Resources tagged with community. You can see all of the tags on the KPIRC website on the tag cloud page.
Working With Parents: Strengthening Families
The Working with Parents videos are the result of work from Lynn McDonald who piloted the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program at Beacon Primary School, located in a challenging Liverpool community in the UK. The school recruited 14 families to take part in the American-style community-building program. Over seven weeks, the families took part in activities, such as singing and cooking together, and discovered what a sense of community feels like. These videos show how links between communities and schools can affect children’s welfare and education. Some of the topics include: supporting parents across communities; strengthening the family; the strengthening families, strengthening communities approach; and social isolation and parenting. Filed under Schools Higher Education Businesses and tagged with community Parent Involvement Plan leadership on February 18, 2010 # |
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Institute for Youth, Education and Families
The YEF Institute has published a new toolkit on Preventing Gang Violence and Building Communities Where Young People Thrive. The toolkit draws upon lessons learned over the past three years from the California Cities Gang Prevention Network, a 13-city network formed to identify strategies for reducing gang violence and victimization. The kit highlights a wide range of city practices and contains eight chapters divided into three sections: marshalling resources to fund anti-gang strategies; strategic partnerships within the criminal justice system, and with county agencies, schools, neighborhoods, and the faith community; and targeted approaches, including street-level outreach and facilitating reentry from detention facilities. Filed under Parents Schools Businesses and tagged with high school gang preventions guidance community family family school partnership public education parenting on January 15, 2010 # |
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Kansas Family and Community Involvement Guide to Student Achievement
This booklet, complete with the National Family School Partnership Standards (PTA) and scoring guide, or rubric is intended to be used for measuring continuous improvement in family and community involvement in student achievement. The guide includes standards and performance descriptors that identify how schools can assess their family and community involvement procedures, policies and other efforts toward improving student achievement. Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with community national standards Order from KPIRC family school partnership NCLB PTA on January 15, 2009 # |
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A Practical Guide to Talking With Your Community About No Child Left Behind and Schools in Need of Improvement
Polls show that parents and the public at large are not well informed about the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and how it will affect their children and schools. While this may create uncertainty and confusion in your community, it also offers school leaders a chance to discuss the law with them and enlist their support in meeting its new challenges. No Child Left Behind is controversial, with vocal supporters and critics. The materials presented here are not intended to engage debate about the pros and cons of the law. They are designed to help school leaders communicate with parents and the public about the law and its effects in each community. These were written primarily for district superintendents and principals, since they are often the first to be called to comment on school issues. But these materials can be readily adapted for use by teacher leaders, PTA presidents, school board members, and others. This Guide also contains links to many other resources on the law and other education issues. You will most likely want to adapt these for your community, picking and choosing the issues that are most relevant and modifying them with some specifics from your district and state. Many of the materials are designed so that they can easily be converted into brochures or flyers. Filed under Parents and tagged with NCLB community on October 17, 2008 # |
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Toolkit to Support Family-Community Partnerships
The New Mexico Public Education Department has created, "Working Together: School-Family-Community Partnerships, A Toolkit for New Mexico School Communities." The purpose of the Toolkit is to assist educators and education partners with information, resources and strategies to help strengthen parent and community involvement. The toolkit is designed to make schools places that foster community collaboration and make parents and families feel welcome. Filed under Parents and tagged with tips community on October 17, 2008 # |
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