Coalition for Community Schools

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Join us in Philadelphia for “Community Schools and University-Assisted Community Schools (UACS): Partnerships that Change Schools, Communities, and Universities for the Better.”

This free, in-person conference at the University of Pennsylvania on November 11th and 12th is co-sponsored by Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships and the Institute for Educational Leadership’s Coalition for Community Schools. The conference is open to the entire UACS National Network and all Community School initiatives in the Northeast.

https://www.nettercenter.upenn.edu/get-involved/upcoming-events/community-schools-and-university-assisted-community-schools

IEL Northeast Regional Director Joline Collins helped celebrate the launch of the Monroe County Community Schools Coalition in Rochester, NY last week! Over 80 organization were part of the event, and are excited to continue collaborating and pooling resources to support youth and families in their community.

Community Schools in the northeast region have been on fire - we're proud to support the expansion of this effective strategy: https://13wham.com/news/local/monroe-county-launches-initiative-to-enhance-educational-access

help elevate what matters to the students, families, and community members they serve. That's why this Community School in Sun Prairie, WI honored the local Native American culture in their region yesterday during :

https://www.wmtv15news.com/2024/10/15/sun-prairie-community-schools-hosts-new-event-celebrate-indigenous-peoples-day/?fbclid=IwY2xjawF7lPpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHf3ng8esZU4G_ERSkZxSoDEkKWwzBNc_WRIt1q9VnWCrMKjNmydfZw-qIA_aem_GSlHrOZIHMpT3SZuncvwtg

Sun Prairie Community Schools hosts a new event to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sun Prairie Community Schools hosted an Indigenous persons’ day event at Central Heights Middle School with help from the First Nations Intertribal Community of Sun Prairie on Monday.

"Several visitors from Michigan Community Schools Coalition, a statewide group of community school practitioners, got a glimpse of how KSSN works during a recent “road trip.” Members of the coalition do work similar to KSSN around the state. The Michigan group is part of the national Coalition for Community Schools.

'We want to have them leaving with practical strategies and insight into how we operate,' said Shay Kraley, KSSN director of operations. “One of the fun mantras of our work is ‘If you’ve seen one community school, you’ve seen one community school.’ We want them to see a diversity of what we do.'

The other purpose of the event, she said, was to connect with more potential partners that are interested in supporting schools.

Lee Middle School KSSN coordinator Jackee Thompson
A community school is a place where students and families can find support. It also is a set of partnerships between the school and other community resources, Kraley said."

Road trip highlights schools as community hubs Kent School Services Network coordinators shared work they are doing at four schools, providing visitors from across the state a glimpse of how they meet diverse needs.

🎓 Join us on Wednesday, September 25th, from 12-1:30 pm PT / 3-4:30 pm ET for the final webinar of the 2024 Attendance Awareness Campaign, Leadership for Sustainability: Superintendents Making a Difference.

Superintendents from Columbus, Ohio, Topeka, Kansas, and Livingston, California, will share their successes in reducing chronic absenteeism in different types of communities.

📉 You'll also hear about a new Ad Council Research Institute survey of families designed to learn their current views on school absences. We’ll share a new messaging toolkit to communicate with families about why attending school regularly is key to their child’s growth.

💡 Register today! https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_slVpEcy1QZaYGIdh2fXvSw #/registration

Confirmed speakers:
Dr. Tiffany Anderson, Superintendent, Topeka Public Schools, Kansas
Dr. Angela Chapman, Superintendent and CEO of Columbus City Schools, Ohio
Derrick Feldmann, Managing Director, Ad Council Research Institute
Andrés Zamora, Superintendent, Livingston Union School District, California
Kwesi Rollins, Vice President, Institute for Educational Leadership
Hedy Chang, Executive Director, Attendance Works

Institute for Educational Leadership | Campaign for Grade-Level Reading | Everyone Graduates Center | FutureEd | Healthy Schools Campaign | MENTOR | National League of Cities | United Way | Topeka Public Schools | Columbus City Schools | Ad Council | Livingston Union School District

🎶 Big shoutout to Ramsee, our talented Community School Coordinator at Enka Intermediate School ! 🎶

As a Community School Coordinator, Ramsee is essential to creating the connections and resources that help students and staff thrive. She’s set up a brand new resource room filled with supplies, ensuring that everyone has what they need to succeed. Plus, she’s working on a Regulation Room for teachers to recharge. The work she’s doing is so important—it’s all about creating a more holistic approach to education, ensuring that our schools are places of support and care. Thank you, Ramsee, for your amazing work and positive energy!

Happy Student Support Coordinator Appreciation Week!

🎉 Shoutout to Hilton Yopp, our incredible Student Support Coordinator at O.L. Smith in Dearborn Public Schools! 🎉

Hilton consistently goes above and beyond, building strong relationships with students and offering invaluable support to everyone he works with. His recent efforts in providing top-notch shadowing and guidance to a new Student Support Coordinator have been nothing short of amazing. We're lucky to have him on the team – thank you, Hilton, for all you do!

Happy Community School Coordinator Appreciation Week! We are highlighting the fantastic coordinators at Milwaukee Community Schools Partnership Schools all week.

LaResha Love is the Community School Coordinator at Hopkins-Lloyd Community School.

"An altruist. LaResha is a great example of living your purpose. She loves the community that shaped her and is working hard to engage her community in supporting the students at Hopkins Lloyd. She celebrates every student's success and seeks to change their lives in and outside of the classroom. Thanks to LaResha, Hopkins Lloyd and the community at large are working hand in hand to transform our students' lives." - Pancho Sanchez, Community Schools K5 Manager

Community School Coordinators are the heart of our schools - working tirelessly to support and uplift students and their families every day 💙 From connecting families with vital resources to creating safe and inclusive learning environments, their impact is immeasurable.

Today marks the start of Coordinator Appreciation Week, let’s take this week to celebrate and show our appreciation for these incredible leaders who help build stronger communities.
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It’s Coordinator Appreciation Week! CIS Site because they know that

THANK YOU to every site coordinator in our network who takes the time to get to know kids and connects them to the resources they need to show up to school, ready to succeed!

Give a shout-out to your favorite site coordinator in the comments!

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Happy Coordinators Appreciation Week 2024! We're so excited to see the celebration of these amazing leaders around the country, and all they do to support students and the implementation of Community Schools

Happy Coordinators Appreciation Week!

because they make our schools and communities stronger, safer, and a more welcoming place for our students and families.

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Check out this new report from Learning Policy Institute underscoring the link between reduced chronic absenteeism and !

"Community schools have emerged as a promising approach to mitigate chronic absenteeism, as they are adept at organizing supports for students and families and creating conditions for rich learning and well-being. Support and funding for Community Schools has increased in recent years at both the federal and state level. California has become a leader in implementation in recent years, supported by an unprecedented $4.1 billion investment through the California Community Schools Partnership Program. The program provides grants that enable school and district partnerships with community agencies and local government to support students’ academic, physical, and mental development."

Reducing Chronic Absenteeism: Lessons from Community Schools There has been a significant decline in school attendance since the onset of the pandemic. This is concerning since chronically absent students are more likely to fall behind academically, disengage socially, and drop out of school. Community schools are a promising strategy to mitigate chronic abse...

This is a great opportunity for school teams in New Mexico! The Institute for Educational Leadership, home of the Coalition, is honored to continue our partnership with SWIFT Community Schools to deliver this Collaborative Leadership Fellowship.

Don't miss the registration deadline! We are so excited to not only continue our partnership with the Institute for Educational Leadership, but expand the Fellowship.

We're hiring! IEL is pleased to announce that we are now actively searching for a new Director for the Coalition for Community Schools & Vice President of Place-Based Strategies. We strongly encourage qualified network members and their colleagues to apply:

https://iel.org/director-coalition-for-community-schools-and-vice-president-of-place-based-strategies/

Discover More Helpful Resources | InPlay.org NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia is inviting students in grades K-12 to draw, paint or design what’s next in science, aeronautics, and exploration in the NASA Langley Student Art Contest.

We spy our Western Regional Director Christa Rowland! Looks like it was a great turnout 😀

Don't miss the 5th and final installment of this year's Transforming Family-School Partnerships with PTA's National Standards Webinar Series on Wednesday, May 1st! "Uplifting Youth Voice in Family Engagement" will feature two IEL leaders - Ebony Watson and Sabrina Sheikh:

https://pta.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YLaLmj-TSz2CTfmCzAvziw

Education aims to give every student opportunities to learn and thrive, but a majority of U.S. schools are still designed on the “factory model” of learning. At this moment in history when students, families, and educators are trying to recover from a public health crisis, an economic crisis, and a crisis of civil rights and democracy, schools designed based on the science of learning and development are needed more critically than ever. A new report from the Learning Policy Institute offers a powerful evidence-based blueprint of 10 features for redesigning high schools to create learning environments that are more humane, enriching, and conducive to meaningful learning than our current factory models of schooling. https://bit.ly/4aNnjVG

We’re also thrilled to see our Coalition for Community Schools website and Building a Community Schools Systems Guide highlighted as resources in the report (pages 117-118)!

Redesigning High Schools: 10 Features for Success A number of schools have been effective at rejecting the factory model and redesigning their systems to create safe environments with opportunities for exciting and rigorous academic work. Their successes have ideas in common, offering 10 important lessons for other schools.

Join us on Friday, April 26th at 9:30am-12:30pm ET for the 2024 Northeast Region Community Schools Virtual Convening! Under the theme, Northeast Nexus: Uniting Communities Through Schools, we seek to transform education through the power of collaboration and unity.

Learn more and register: https://conta.cc/4cUQmZm