Community Partnerships

An elementary science teacher describes how building a network of partnerships has transformed her teaching.

Community-based research projects can help upper elementary and middle school students see value in what they’re learning.

Here’s how one school hosted meaningful events to create deeper connections with the surrounding community.

By engaging the community, schools can create a Portrait of a Graduate that aligns school decision-making with community priorities.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.