Community Partnerships

Here’s how to find the resources to put together a course to teach middle and high school students about the history of where they live.

These tips make it easier for teachers to host classroom volunteers without adding to their own workload.

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

When teachers build bridges from the classroom to the world of work, it can motivate and inspire their students—and help them imagine their futures.

Over 12 million American kids live in poverty. What role can schools play in disrupting its pernicious effects?

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

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

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.

Data shows that Black youth are especially prone to develop mental health issues but less likely to seek out or receive the specialized services and care they need.

Teachers can guide students to write résumés and—with volunteers from local businesses—practice interviewing for a job.

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

A former elementary school principal describes how her school integrated community volunteers to enhance students’ academic growth.