Community Partnerships

Co-teachers in a special education classroom focus on building a community of learners with a focus on real-world skills.

One teacher shares how her rural elementary school safely and effectively took their classrooms outdoors.

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

When afterschool program Ballet Folklorico teaches kids traditional Mexican dance, they build not only social and emotional skills, but also community.

When Maryland middle school students spend a day focusing on helping others, they see their own capacity to make a difference in their community.

The often-overlooked hours after school can be a great opportunity to build in lessons around self-regulation and decision-making.

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.

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.

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

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 teachers bring parents in to see what their children are learning, they strengthen the home-school connection and help the adults build skills, too.