Parent, Community Involvement & Community Schools
Briefs
- 3/8/2007
- Philadelphia’s Project U-Turn, Citywide Efforts to Address the Dropout Problem with Paul Vallas, Chief Executive Officer, School District of Philadelphia, Ruth Curran Neild, Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University, Courtney Collins-Shapiro, Director, Multiple Pathways to Graduation, School District of Philadelphia, Laura Shubilla, President of the Philadelphia Youth Network. (forum Brief)
- 10/27/2006
- New Century High Schools Initiative with Bob Hughes, President, New Visions for Public Schools, Ronald Chaluisan, Vice President of Programs, New Visions for Public Schools, and Elizabeth Reisner, Principal, Policy Studies Associates (Forum brief)
- 9/8/2006
- Dropout Reconnection as a Local Economic Development Strategy with Andrew O. Moore, Senior Consultant, National League of Cities, Deborah Feldman, Administrator, Montgomery County, Ohio, and Karen Sitnick, Director, Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, Baltimore, Maryland. (Forum brief)
- 5/15/2006
- Schools for a New Society Roundtable Discussion with Rochelle Nichols-Solomon, Director, Schools for a New Society Technical Assistance Program. Academy of Educational Development, Donnie Evans, Superintendent, Providence Public Schools, Mary Harrison, Executive Director, Rhode Island Children's Crusade, Jesse Register, Superintendent, Hamilton County Department of Education, Dan Challener, Public Education Foundation, Chattanooga, and Mindy Hernandez, Carneige Corporation of New York (Forum brief)
- 4/07/2006
- How Do High School Students Get Academic, Leadership, Work Skills, and Still Manage to Serve the Community? With students and faculty from Howenstine High School, Tucson, Arizona (Forum Brief)
- 5/13/2005
- Out-of-School-Time Programming for Youth in Philadelphia, with David Fair, Director, Philadelphia Department of Human Services/Community Based Prevention Services; Naomi Gubernick, Director, Non-School Hour Services, Philadelphia Public Schools; JoAnn Lawer, President and CEO, Philadelphia Safe and Sound; and Laura Shubilla, President, Philadelphia Youth Network. (Forum Brief)
- 2/18/2005
- The Role of Community-based Organizations in Serving Youth in the Out-of-School-Time featuring Chris Myers, Executive Director, Sunflower County Freedom Project; Sonya Clark-Herrera, Executive Director, East Palo Alto Mural Art Project; and Spencer H. Holland, Executive Director, Project 2000.. (Forum Brief)
- 5/9/2003
- A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement, with Anne Henderson, Institute of Education and Social Policy, and Karen Mapp, Institute for Responsive Education (Boston). (Forum Brief)
- 2/21/2003
- A Place to Grow: Evaluation of the New York City Beacons, School-Community-Family Partnerships, with Constancia Warren, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Peter Kleinbard, Fund for the City of New York, Tracy Calderon, Beacons Director, and Jonathan Guity, student. (Forum Brief)
- 9/30/2002
- The Promise of Preschool, with John Merrow. Screening of a new video to be aired on PBS. This video describes widely divergent types of preschool and the availability of quality preschool programs. (Forum Brief)
- 12/7/2001
- Community Organizing for School Reform: Creating the Context for Change, with Anne T. Henderson, coauthor of Urgent Message: Families Crucial to School Reform, Norm Fruchter, director, Institute for Education and Social Policy and Clinical Professor of Education Policy (IESP), New York University; Kavitha Mediratta, senior project director, IESP; and Nsombi Lambright, Southern Echo, Mississippi. (Forum Brief)
- 11/2/2001
- Every Child Counts: Citizens Tackle the Achievement Gap in Louisville, KY, with Anne T. Henderson, Senior Consultant, Institute for Education and Social Policy, New York University; Beverly Raimondo, Director, Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership, Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence; Lynn Rippy, Director, Jefferson County Community Accountability Team. (Forum Brief)
- 10/12/2001
- Education and Community Building: Connecting Two Worlds, with Martin Blank, Director of Community Collaboration, and Barbara McCloud, Associate Director, School Leadership for the 21st Century Initiative, Institute for Educational Leadership; Nancy Aardema, Executive Director, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, and Amanda Rivera, Principal, Ames Middle School, Chicago. (Forum Brief)
- 3/9/2001
- Is the Concept of Full Service Community Schools Ready for Federal Support? with researcher, writer and lecturer Joy G. Gryfoos and Sue Maguire, principal, Molly Stark Community School, Bennington, Vermont. (Forum Brief)
- 11/20/2000
- The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children and Limits Learning, with author Etta Kralovec. (Forum Brief)
- 3/10/2000
- Deepening Partnerships Between School and Community, with Martin J. Blank, Staff Director of the Coalition for Community Schools, Mary Freeland, Executive Director of Jacksonville Children's Commission, Phil Gonring, Program Officer at the Rose Community Foundation, and Shirley Farnsworth, Director of Community Education for the Denver Public Schools. (Forum Brief)
- 3/3/2000
- Mobilizing Community Support for Improved Student Achievement, with Wendy Puriefoy, President, Public Education Network and network members Sonia Louden-Walker, Former Executive Director, Partners in Public Education (PIPE), Memphis, TN; and M. Anthony Habit, President, Wake Education Partnership, Raleigh, NC. (Forum Brief)
- 3/12/1999
- Demanding Accountability for Better Schools: What Parents, Teachers and Taxpayers Want to Know, with Andy Plattner from A Plus Communications. (Forum Brief)
- 2/5/1999
- Community Schools and After-School Programs, with Martin Blank and Atelia Melaville, Institute for Educational Leadership. (Forum Brief)
- 1/8/1999
- The El Paso Collaborative for Academic Excellence: Is It Possible to Turn Big City School Systems Around? with Anne T. Henderson, Institute for Education and Social Policy. (Forum Brief)
- 6/12/1998
- Safe Passage: Making it Through Adolescence in a Risky Society, with Joy Dryfoos, independent researcher and writer; and Rosa Agosta, Director, Technical Assistance Center, Children's Aid Society of New York City. (Forum Brief)
- 7/18/1997
- Two Model Youth Media Projects: Teaching Literacy, Critical Thinking and Community Involvement, with Keith Hefner, Youth Communication and Steve Goodman, Educational Video Center. (Forum Brief)
- 2/24/1995
- Academic Performance and the Changing American Family, with David W. Grissmer, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Mark Berends and Stephanie Williamson, RAND. (Forum Brief)
Trip Reports
- 10/18/2007-
10/19/2007 - State Policy Trip to Miami, Florida, October 18-19, 2007: Career Pathways and K-12 Education. Highlights from this trip include meeting with Rudy Crew, Superintendent of Miami-Dade Country Public Schools, as well as other policy and education experts at the state and local levels. In addition, we visited Miami Edison Senior High School, MacArthur South Senior High School, and Robert Morgan Educational Center. (Trip Report)
- 4/22/2005
- Latin American Youth Center's YouthBuild Program. One day field trip in Washington, DC to explore the work of this dynamic, multi-faceted community-based organization and its impact on young people. (Trip Report)
- 2/14/2005
- Exploring Service-Learning as a Way to Increase Student Academic Performance and Civic Involvement visit to Friendship Edison Public Carter School in Washington, DC. The field tip featured a tour and discussion on the adoption, implementation and sustainability of service-learning as a way to engage students in increasing academic and civic skills. (Trip Report)
- 3/17/2003 -
3/19/2003 - Education, Community and Workforce Development in Rural Mississippi. Field Trip to to learn about statewide education reform initiatives, community organizing for education reform, and successful after-school and out-of-school youth programs in the Delta region of Mississippi. (Trip Report)
- 10/29/2002 -
10/30/2002 - Connecting Classrooms - Communities - Careers Through Service-Learning-On this two-day visit to Boston Public Schools (BPS), policymakers were introduced to collaborative developments in teaching pedagogy between service-learning and school to career in the classroom. (Trip Report)
- 10/29/2000 -
10/31/2000 - Community Schools and Partnerships to Improve Learning and Services for Youth, in conjunction with the Coalition for Community, Kansas City, MO. (Trip Report)
- 3/1/2000
- Community Schools and Beacon Models in New York City. (Trip Report)
- 5/6/1999 -
5/7/1999 - Secondary School Reform in New York City. (Trip Report)
- 7/25/1997
- Technology and Innovation in Postsecondary Career Preparation, Hagerstown Junior College, Hagerstown, MD, including tours of the Technical Innovation Center and the Advanced Technology Center. (Trip Report)
- 10/19/1995 -
10/20/1995 - District-Wide School-to-Work System and School Choice in Milwaukee, WI. (Trip Report)
Publications
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No More Islands: Family
Involvement in 27 School and Youth Programs When families’ are active in their children’s learning at home, in school, and in youth programs, good things happen. Research has revealed that this connection yields higher grades and test scores, better attendance, attention to homework, fewer special education placements, better attitudes and behavior, higher graduation rates, and greater enrollment in postsecondary education. Family involvement in both school and youth programs is a requirement of No Child Left Behind and the Workforce Investment Act, increasing interest in the topic. For those who want to learn what has been accomplished in this area by leading school and youth programs, the American Youth Policy Forum has compiled a 152-page report, No More Islands: Family Involvement in 27 School and Youth Programs. The report asserts that young people should not be treated as “islands” by school and youth programs, separate from the context of learning that includes the involvement of their families. No More Islands shares evaluations of school and youth programs that describe family involvement in a variety of venues. |
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