Community Partnerships
Learn and share ideas about how to engage caring individuals, organizations, and businesses to help schools with resources, mentors, internships, and more.
Ramping Up Relevance With Community-Centered Learning
Community-based research projects can help upper elementary and middle school students see value in what they’re learning.1.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Fresh Approaches to Instructional Design
An educator with 20-plus years of experience on crafting creative and energizing lessons.7.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Building 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.321.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.5 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.546kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Teaching a Citizen Science Project in High School
A biology teacher shares learnings and takeaways from the “controlled chaos” of her class’s first citizen science project.5.1kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.109.5kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.A More Engaging Back to School Night
Intentionally fostering interactions among teachers, parents, and community partners helped one school create a more inviting event.82kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.141.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.88.7kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.57.9kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How Can High-Poverty Schools Engage Families and the Community?
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.91.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.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.40.6kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Breaking the Cycle of Silence Around Black Mental Health
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.27.3kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Empowering Students to Be Real-World Problem Solvers
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.Community Walks Create Bonds of Understanding
When students lead teachers through their communities, the cultural exchange can have a transformational effect on school culture.48.9kYour content has been saved!
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