Community Partnerships

Listening to, collecting, and sharing oral histories personalizes history and helps connect students to their communities.

A Vermont school program connected to local trades shows how experiential learning can boost engagement for middle and high school students.

A festival that showcases science, technology, engineering, arts, and math can open up new worlds for elementary students.

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.

A few tips for finding and working with partners to collaborate with students in hands-on project-based learning experiences.

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

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

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.

School leaders can plan communications collaboratively to improve connections with families and the whole community.

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.

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.