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School-Community Partnerships

Check out the following resources to learn more about establishing or strengthening connections between schools and the wider community:

• The National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools, a division of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, focuses on finding and sharing research-based information to help people take action and make connections among schools, families, and communities. Their resource center provides a wide range of publications on community connections http://www.sedl.org/connections/research-syntheses.html
• Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse maintains a collection of resources on building community partnerships that support service-learning projects.http://www.servicelearning.org/lsa/lsa_page/school_cmty.php
• Partnerships by Design: Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships is a guide to help schools and programs assess their current approaches to involving families and community members, and to assist them in implementing more effective strategies. Brought to you by the School-Family-Community Partnerships Team at Northwest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL), the publication will guide you through the process of developing a comprehensive family and community outreach plan. http://www.nwrel.org/partnerships/pubs/bydesign.html
• Everyday Democracy offers a wealth of information on community outreach and involvement. The organization can help you design a community-involvement process, identify resources, and learn to engage in meaningful community dialogues.

Visit our Community and Family Involvement page in the Educators section for additional resources related to School-Community Partnerships.