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Click here to download.

We are pleased to share that we have written a report with the Center for Popular Democracy, and the Southern Education Foundation entitled Community Schools: Transforming Struggling Schools into Thriving Schools.

The report profiles six schools, three districts and a state who have left nothing to chance. They have come to thrive through coordinated implementation of the following six research-based elements of Community Schools. The six elements include:

Engaging curricula that are culturally relevant and challenging.

An emphasis on high-quality teaching, not on high-stakes testing.

Wrap-around supports and opportunities such as health care, eye care, and social and emotional services that support academics available at the school.

Positive discipline practices, such as restorative justice and social and emotional learning supports.

Authentic parent and community engagement is promoted so the full community actively participates in planning and decision-making. This process recognizes the link between the success of the school and the development of the community as a whole.

Inclusive school leadership who are committed to making the transformational Community School strategy integral to the school's mandate and functioning.

This report profiles community schools across the country that are implementing evidence-based strategies to bring together the resources of school, family, and community to make schools stronger and help young people thrive. Through the use of these strategies, the schools profiled in this report have demonstrated consistent improvement in a wide range of indicators of student success. This report comes at a time when the newly passed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reflects a shift toward a broader set of indicators of school success, to include not just test scores but measures of school climate and family engagement. "It's clear the tide is turning, as interest in this vision of schooling is now evident in the nation's major education policy," said Kent McGuire, President and CEO of the Southern Education Foundation.

You can read our full press release on the report here. For feeback on the report, feel free to contact our Director of Public Policy, Mary Kingston Roche at rochem@iel.org.

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Click here to download. We are pleased to share that we have written a report with the Center for Popular Democracy, and the Southern Education Foundation entitled Community Schools: Transforming Struggling Schools into Thriving Schools. The report profiles six schools, three districts and a state who have left nothing to chance.

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Hire an ESOL coach that can work with teachers to provide research based strategies that support language learners.

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Provide teachers with additional pay to spend time in teams, planning lessons, differentiating, scaffolding work, and creating curriculum to meet learner needs.  Could be in Depts or Cross Curricular.  Should have an ESOL Coach, Mentor, or Specialist assisting

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purchase of curriculum materials (e.g., text) that reflect different culture of our students

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purchase of curriculum materials (e.g., text) that reflect different culture of our students

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Expanded after-school tutoring with activity buses and dinner to complete mastery project, class assignment 

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Expanded after-school tutoring with activity buses and dinner to complete mastery project, class assignment 

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Basic language class; Intensive ESOL class for newcomers during the summer (Baez)

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Need help organizing a PTA; Need buy in from all cultural backgrounds   of family (Ballinger)

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more therapists, dental services, addiction screening/counseling (drugs, alcohol), food bank

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more therapists, dental services, addiction screening/counseling (drugs, alcohol), food bank

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Hire More Guidance Counselors & Social Workers

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Hire More Guidance Counselors & Social Workers

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Also partner with UMD for interns; Need someone who can search for free colleges without legal documentation (CASA has the legal knowledge @ DREAM ACT, ect.) Ballinger

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Contract teacher, purchase mats, meditation pillows for calming space within school for students, staff, community

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Person who goes to the Mosque, soccer games, churches to meet family members/community to assess their needs and engage them in our school

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With RJ/Life Skills curriculum

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Invite PGCC/UMD Professors to come to teach Spanish, French, Arabic, ect to teachers so we can communicate with families

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ESOL Co-teacher that works with each team quarterly to co-plan and co-teach. 

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ESOL Co-teacher that works with each team quarterly to co-plan and co-teach. 

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committees that inform admin. (curriculum committee, etc.).

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SIOP ESOL training for all content teachers. 

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SIOP ESOL training for all content teachers. 