Webinar: Launching and Scaling Up a Community Schools Strategy

Posted by on November 21, 2011

November 30 Webinar on Launching and Scaling Up a Community Schools Strategy

Registration is now open for a free, hour-long webinar on “Launching and Scaling Up a Community Schools Strategy: The Role of Cities.”  Sponsored by NLC and the Coalition for Community Schools, this webinar will take place Wed., November 30, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Community schools are a proven strategy for integrating existing school and community resources to remove barriers to learning and ensure that more young people graduate from high school ready for college and a career.  Community schools stay open after the bell rings and provide a range of ser vices to students and their families, from afterschool programs and tutoring to health services and adult education.  A wide body of research shows that this strategy improves student achievement, increases graduation rates, promotes family involvement in schools, and maximizes scarce local resources.

Municipal leaders are in a prime position to advance a community schools strategy in their cities and towns.  City officials can unite key partners around a shared vision to address the numerous in-school and out-of-school factors that influence or impede student learning.  Join this webinar to hear from local leaders in two cities who are working to bring countywide and districtwide community schools strategies to scale.  The webinar will draw upon lessons and promising practices from a new CCS guide, Scaling Up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy.

http://www.communityschools.org/ScalingUp/

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