Call for Workshops: Coalition for Community Schools Conf

Posted by on September 7, 2009

Building Innovative Partnerships for Student Success: The Key to America’s Future

The Coalition for Community Schools is calling for workshop and field-building dialogue/affinity group proposals.

Building Innovative Partnerships for Student Success: The Key to America’s Future is this year’s theme. We are celebrating the fact that partnerships are at the heart of the community schools approach—bringing schools, families, community residents, higher education and an array of other community partners together around a common result—student success.

Innovation is the word of the day in education reform, as the U.S. Department of Education rolls out its new education reform strategy. Community schools are an innovation that is turning around student performance as it builds on a very American principle, that schools are inextricably connected to their communities and best educate students when they function as centers of community. Student success is the result that everyone is seeking for young people…enabling them to graduate from high school ready for careers, college, and citizenship. Attaining this goal is vital to the future for our nation.

We encourage creative proposals that demonstrate an understanding of the Forum’s theme and enable participants to gain the knowledge and skills to create and sustain community schools. Please click here to download the guidelines and click here to view the application form.  Please contact Maame Ameyaw at ccs@iel.org if you have any questions regarding the conference.

The submission for workshop and field-building dialogue/affinity group proposals has been extended. The deadline is now Monday , October 26, 2009 by COB.

Guidelines –http://communityschools.org/CCSDocuments/National_Forum2010_RFP_aug31.pdf
Application:  http://communityschools.org/CCSDocuments/National_Forum2010_WorkshopApplication_aug31.doc