From eSchoolNews December 2:
The Coalition for Community Schools has released an interactive web-based tool to help school and community leaders understand the community school strategy and learn about building a system of community schools. The guide draws from the work of local community schools initiatives that are directly impacting student achievement, attendance, family engagement, and other factors. It presents end-state benchmarks for scale-up, and includes stories from successful community school systems. The web-based tool offers videos of community leaders talking about scale-up, literature on scale-up stories, and answers questions to the field about each scale-up stage using LinkedIn. The guide is written for a wide audience and for communities at different points in planning for, implementing, and sustaining a community schools strategy.