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Building a Community School

Community Schools Manual Cover

The original Children's Aid reference on Community School building: offers relevant data on the advantages of the Community Schools model and practical help with many of the challenges educators are likely to face when starting one.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Our Children: Special Focus on Community Schools, , The National PTA Magazine, February/March 2007.
  • Community Schools in Action: Lessons from a Decade of Practice, Edited by Joy G. Dryfoos, Jane Quinn and Carol Barkin, Oxford University Pres, 2005.
  • Community Schools: A Strategy for Integrating Youth Development and School Reform, special issue of New Directions for Youth Development (journal) edited by Joy Dryfoos and Jane Quinn; Gil G. Noam , Editor-in Chief, Jossey-Bass/Wiley Periodicals, Fall 2005.
  • The Quitman Street Community School: 1998-2003 Five Year Report, Joy G. Dryfoos, published by the Prudential Foundation, 2004.
  • Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools, Martin J. Blank, Atelia Melaville and Bela P. Shah, Coalition for Community Schools, May 2003.
  • Educational Leadership and the Community: Strategies for School Improvement through Community Engagement, Tony Gelsthorpe and John West-Burnham, published by School Leadership and Management Series, Pearson Education (Great Britain), 2003.
  • Inside Full-Service Community Schools, Joy Dryfoos and Sue Maguire, Corwin Press, 2002.
  • Practical Evaluation for Collaborative Services: Goals, Processes, Tools and reporting System for School Based Programs, James R. Veale, Raymond Morley, Cynthia Erickson, Corwin Press, 2002.
  • Building a Community School (third edition). The Children's Aid Society, 2001.
  • New Opportunities for Children and Youth, Good Practices and Research Regarding Community Schools in The Netherlands, by Marja Valkestijn, and Gerard van de Burgwal, published by The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (The Netherlands), 2001.
  • Schools as Centers of Community: A Citizen's Guide For Planning and Design, Steven Bingler and Linda Quinn, U.S. Department of Education, April 2000.
  • What if? New Schools, Better Neighborhoods, More Livable Communities, Metropolitan Forum Project, Los Angeles, 2000.
  • Engaging Families and Communities: Pathways to Educational Success, Larry E, Decker, Virginia A. Decker & Associates, National Community Education Association, 2000.
  • Building More Effective Community Schools , Technical Assistance/Resource Center of The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2000.
  • Strengthening Partnerships: Community School Assessment Checklist, M. Blank and B. Langford, Coalition for Community Schools and The Finance Project, Washington DC, 2000.
  • A Policy Approach to Create and Sustain Community Schools: Promoting Policies that Strengthen Schools, Families and Communities, Coalition for Community Schools, 2000.
  • Schools as Learning Communities, National Association for Secondary Schools Principals, 1999.
  • Building a Full-Service School, A Step-by-Step Guide, Carol Calfee, Frank Wittwer and Mimi Meredith, Jossey-Bass, 1998.
  • Learning Together: The Developing Field of School-Community Initiatives, Atelia Melaville and Martin Blank, published by the Institute of Educational Leadership and the National Center for Community Education, 1998.
  • School, Family and Community Partnerships, Your Handbook for Action, Joyce Epstein, Lucretia Coates, Karen Klark Salina, Mavis G. Sanders, Beth Simon, Corwin Press, 1997.
  • Connecting the Dots: Progress Toward the Integration of School Reform, School-Linked Services, Parent Involvement and Community Schools, Hal Lawson, Ph.D. and Katherine Briar Lawson, Ph.D. Oxford, OH: Miami University, School of Education and Allied Professions, 1997.

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