Making Community Schools a Reality

Harnessing Your Power as a School Leader through Collaboration
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-69310-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 284 g

With public demand for community schools on the rise, this timely book provides an empowering, step-by-step approach for school leaders to cultivate community school practices within their schools while simultaneously engaging in the policy advocacy process. This is an actionable toolkit with practical advice, helpful checklists and inventories, as well as real examples from rural and urban schools. Drawing from the experiences of real school leaders involved in community school initiatives, this book illuminates the promise of community schools as centers of the community and sites accessible beyond regular school hours. Community schools bring together educators, local community members, families, and students to provide partnerships that strengthen conditions for student learning and healthy development. Making Community Schools a Reality is a timely and comprehensive resource that helps educational leaders improve learning outcomes and promote equity in their schools.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woods, Emily L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Understanding the “What” and “Why” of Community Schools 3. Creating a state of readiness 4. Realizing the Vision by Developing and Enhancing Systems and Structures 5. Building a Sound Foundation: Data, Evaluation, and Funding 6. The Principal’s Role in Advocating for Change 7. Making it Work: A Question of Equity

Über Autor(innen)

Emily L. Woods is a former K-12 teacher and teacher trainer. She is currently Director of Education for the Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation, where she advances the benefits of community schools in urban public education. She has also served as Adjunct Lecturer in UMass Boston’s Education Leadership doctoral program.