Community School Partnerships

HOW CAN YOU STAY INFORMED AND BE INVOLVED?
In the Revision of the Health Framework for California Public Schools

What is a Framework and How to Be Involved in Its Revision?
The California Department of Education (CDE) and the State Board of Education (SBE) are revising the current Health Framework for California Public Schools (Health Framework) to incorporate and support the state-adopted content standards for health education. The revised Health Framework will provide guidance to teachers and administrators on the implementation of effective standards-based health instruction, as well as to developers of instructional materials to help them create standard-based instructional materials.

The participation of teachers, administrators, health educators, health professionals, school nurses, parents/guardians, and community members in the revision process is essential.

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http://hsfo.ucdavis.edu/sites/hsfo.ucdavis.edu/files/Health_Frameworks_J...

Community Schools Highlighted in the
Department of ED's Newsletter:

Recently, the Department of Education’s Newsletter, The Education Innovator - highlighted Community Schools, making it clear that Secretary Duncan and the Department are working hard to push the community schools agenda forward.

The George Washington Community High School, in Indianapolis, IN is featured in the newsletter.

Community Schools: The BASICS Toolkit

The Community School BASICS Toolkit and this Web site is based on the Academy for Community Schools Development (ACSD) which brought together five schools over three years to design and implement community schools in San Mateo County, California.  ACSD and this toolkit were developed by the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University (JGC), together with the National Technical Assistance Center for Community Schools at Children's Aid Society, and the Center for Community School Partnerships at the University of California at Davis (CCSP).

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BASICS Toolkit: Building, Assessing, Sustaining, and Improving Community Schools (limited release edition) (Mar 2009)

TOOLKIT: Boston Public Schools DELTAS

In this guide, you will find information and the tools necessary to build or improve a Full Service School.  The guide is organized into main two sections – Infrastructure and Programs/Services.  The Infrastructure Section provides information on the individuals, systems and functions needed to support the coordination of quality services.  The Programs/Services section describes services typically found in a full service school and how to establish them.

    * Infrastructure
    * Programs and Services

The information and tools are based on and developed from the experiences of Boston Public Schools DELTAS office over several decades of work.  In this guide you will also find links to local and national resources that have proven valuable.

Click here to learn more:

http:// sites.google.com/site/cstoolkit/organization-of-a-full-service-school