Community Partnerships
Learn and share ideas about how to engage caring individuals, organizations, and businesses to help schools with resources, mentors, internships, and more.
Moving Your Classroom Outside During the Pandemic
One teacher shares how her rural elementary school safely and effectively took their classrooms outdoors.510
What Educators Are Learning During the Pandemic
Many school leaders and teachers are focusing on whole child education, an idea that seems likely to grow in prominence in the future.3.9k
Connecting School and Afterschool With Shared Practices
In Tacoma, a community-wide effort to better serve children is underway, and the first step is common language and shared best practices among the adults.864
Celebrating Cultural Identity Through the Arts
When afterschool program Ballet Folklorico teaches kids traditional Mexican dance, they build not only social and emotional skills, but also community.1.6kBuilding a 21st-Century Learning Space
A community raised $6 million to construct an innovative 30,000-square-foot facility complete with makerspaces and learning labs.16.1k
Scaffolding Academics With Social and Emotional Skills in the Afterschool Space
The often-overlooked hours after school can be a great opportunity to build in lessons around self-regulation and decision-making.930
‘The Human Connection Is Everything’: Dave Eggers on What He’s Learned From Tutoring Students
A new book details how a tutoring center movement that Eggers started almost 20 years ago works to spark students’ creativity.1.5k
Building a Culture of Kindness With a Day of Service
When Maryland middle school students spend a day focusing on helping others, they see their own capacity to make a difference in their community.2.1k
How to Improve Students With Disabilities’ Sense of Belonging
By focusing on play, schools are finding ways to bring students with and without disabilities together, to the benefit of both groups.1.1k5 Steps to Better School/Community Collaboration
A parent and community organizer shares some resources and great ideas, including the creation of a resource map and connecting with subject matter experts to connect to curriculum.18.7k
A More Engaging Back to School Night
Intentionally fostering interactions among teachers, parents, and community partners helped one school create a more inviting event.1k
Engaging Families With Social and Emotional Learning Strategies
When teachers bring parents in to see what their children are learning, they strengthen the home-school connection and help the adults build skills, too.491
Using Athletics to Teach Social and Emotional Skills
Sports can be a powerful way for young people to build self-regulation skills, set goals, and develop confidence—and physical activity develops brain architecture.426
Running a Business in School
Students learn skills like maintaining inventory, marketing, and scheduling while working in a cafe as part of a business class.4.5k
5 Ways to Stop Bullying and Move into Action
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.8.5k