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  • Principal Leadership Training and School Reform: Principal Leadership Training and School Reform: A Guide for School and District Leaders
    The implementation of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 has placed standards and accountability into the educational spotlight. Principals and school administrators must develop comprehensive plans in order to have every student proficient in reading, mathematics, and science by the year 2014.
  • Building Collaborative Cultures: Seeking Ways to Reshape Urban Schools
    This monograph concentrates on two questions: (1) What are the components of collaborative cultures? and (2) How do schools develop collaborative cultures? In seeking to answer these questions, the monograph first details the importance of collaboration, paying special attention to the ways in which collaborative school cultures serve quality teaching and learning. It then examines the variety of cultures that exist among schools.
  • Building School - Community Partnerships: A Case Example
    Commitment to the community is an integral part of the mission of Universities. Colleges of business are routinely contacted for consulting and research that directly benefit businesses in a community.
  • Constructing School Partnerships with Families and Community Groups
    Educators sometimes are content to let parents and families take the initiative in becoming involved in their children's education. But for a real partnership to occur, educators must look at ways in which the school can initiate this involvement.
  • Profiles of Selected School-Community Partnerships
    This page is the index page from which you may link to profiles of selected school-community partnerships in California. In each description, the site provides you with background on how the program got started, its goals and activities, management structure, coordination with schools, staffing information, number of schoolsites and students served, funding, and program evaluation findings.
  • Program for Refining Educational Partnerships
    During the 1996-2000 Regional Educational Laboratory contract, SEDL's work in this area featured the development and refinement of a collaborative process for building school-home-community partnerships. Together, school, home, community, and student representatives share responsibility for identifying pressing educational issues and implementing action plans to address them.
  • Rural School Organizations
    Information and links to such organizations as the Rural School and Community Trust and the National Rural Education Association.
  • School/Community Partnerships: Selected Resources
    Source:National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, November 2003. For additional resource lists on these and other service‑learning topics visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Website at http://www.servicelearning.org.

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