Community Partnerships

Hosting outside experts in your class can be a great opportunity—here’s how to make it work well for everyone.

Here’s how to locate experts willing and eager to share their expertise and bring real-life experience to project-based learning.

Bringing in guest speakers offers high school students valuable connections and insights for the future.

Many school leaders and teachers are focusing on whole child education, an idea that seems likely to grow in prominence in the future.

Intentionally fostering interactions among teachers, parents, and community partners helped one school create a more inviting event.

Schools can support relationships among students, staff, and the wider community through engaging opportunities that promote literacy.

With daily news reports about the devastating impact on students who have been relentlessly bullied, teachers find themselves on the front line in addressing bullying and intolerance. It is time to move into action. Not In Our School offers solutions-based strategies and tools for change to a network of schools that are working to create safe, inclusive and accepting climates.

Students learn skills like maintaining inventory, marketing, and scheduling while working in a cafe as part of a business class.

By focusing on play, schools are finding ways to bring students with and without disabilities together, to the benefit of both groups.

High-poverty schools can involve students' families through home visits and by joining the community's safety net to provide social and medical services for those in need.

When middle school students are given the opportunity to deeply explore what it means to be a changemaker, they see a path toward making a difference in their own community—and beyond.

Knowing their writing has an audience besides their teacher helps motivate students to do their very best work.

Engaging with different cultures allows high school students to develop an empathetic and globally inclusive perspective.