65.049 - Implementing School and Community Partnerships: Lessons From Community School and Promise Neighborhood Initiatives

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

School-community partnerships are taking on increasing significance as districts, schools, and community organizations look for strategies to improve a range of outcomes for students and their families. This session will highlight research on two such initiatives: community schools and Promise Neighborhoods. Researchers will present a new typology for school-community partnerships and describe how initiatives are being implemented in various communities at the school, neighborhood, and systems levels. In connection to the conference theme, school-community partnership initiatives seek to include the communities they work in to be partners in changing access to opportunity and to improving schools and neighborhoods. Often talked about and rarely examined in depth, partnerships are an important aspect of education reform.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Family, School, Community Partnerships

Chair

• Reuben Jacobson, Institute for Educational Leadership

Papers

• A Proposed Framework for Conceptualizing and Enacting School–Community Partnerships - Linda R. Valli, University of Maryland; Amanda Stefanski, University of Maryland; Reuben Jacobson, Institute for Educational Leadership

• The Chicago Public Schools Community Schools Initiative Evaluation - Neil Naftzger, American Institutes for Research; Adeline Ray, Chicago Public Schools

• Getting Equitable Results for Children and Their Families Through Promise Neighborhoods - Erika Bernabei Middleton, New York University; Andre Dukes, Northside Achievement Zone

• Community–School Partnerships Across a System - Reuben Jacobson, Institute for Educational Leadership

Discussant

• Charles M. Payne, University of Chicago