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Portraits of Change: Aligning School and Community Resources to Reduce Chronic Absence
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Loading...This new analysis from Attendance Works and Everyone Graduates Center shows how many schools across the nation and in every state face high levels of chronic absence. Almost 10,000 schools, or one out of every 10 schools in the nation, have extreme levels of chronic absence affecting 30 percent or more of their students.
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Categories: Featured, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: Attendance, Chronic Absence, Data
School Breakfast: Reducing Chronic Absenteeism & Supporting Student Success
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...School breakfast can improve attendance!
Eating school breakfast increases student attendance by an average of 1.5 days of school per year.
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Categories: Child Nutrition, Featured, Home Featured Resource, Student Learning
Resource Tags: Attendance, breakfast, Chronic Absence, Nutrition, School meals
Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA: A Handbook for LEA and School Leaders
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...This handbook by Partners for Each and Every Child and the Council of Chief State School Officers provides helpful guidance to local education agencies (LEAs) and school leaders as they engage with stakeholders to think about how the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) can be best leveraged locally.
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Family Engagement Toolkit: Continuous Improvement through an Equity Lens
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...This Family Engagement Toolkit by the California Department of Education strives to help answer 4 big questions for districts and schools. Read more…
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Categories: Family Engagement, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: Continuous Improvement, Family Engagement, Parent Engagement, Parent Involvement, toolkit
Resource Categories: Continuous Improvement and Using Data, Family Engagement
Follow the Money: Help Kids by Understanding Your County Budget
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Funding the Next Generation presents this webinar recording in collaboration with the California Budget and Policy Center on understanding county budgets and the budgeting process for the purposes of tracking investments in young people. This webinar will help communities get a handle on the why and how of establishing a local Children’s Budget.
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Categories: Financing
Resource Tags: County, Financing, Funding
Resource Categories: Financing
Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This brief from Learning Policy Institute provides a review of the research on community schools. It establishes that as an intervention strategy for school improvement, community schools meet the critera for an “evidence-based strategy” laid out in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
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Categories: Definition and Frameworks, General, Home Featured Resource, Impact, Results + Research, Nuts + Bolts
Resource Tags: ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act, evidence-based, Research
Think Outside the Survey Box: Creative Ways to Solicit Youth Feedback
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Break out of the survey box! There’s more than one way to learn what youth think, care about, want to do, or have learned in your program… so let’s use them! Check out our hands-on guide for youth practitioners to learn about verbal, kinesthetic and visual ways to solicit young people’s input.
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Categories: Continuous Improvement and Using Data, Expanded Learning, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: Data, Guide, Youth voice
Rocking Your Community Needs Assessment – Fact Sheet
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Does the term “needs assessment” send chills down your spine? Wondering how you’ll complete the community needs assessment for your next grant proposal? We’ve got you! See our fact sheet about web sites with easy-to-use data about communities. Download this list of the sites we like the most.
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Categories: Continuous Improvement and Using Data, Expanded Learning, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: Assessment, Data, Grant writing
Rocking Your Next Needs Assessment – Webinar
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...To get started on a community needs assessment for your next grant proposal, watch this recording of Public Profit’s 1-hour webinar about easy-to-access data sources. This webinar was hosted by Public Profit on February 24, 2017 specifically for the California Community Schools Network looking toward the Prop 47 grants.
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Categories: Communication Tools, Financing, Home Featured Resource, Resources
Resource Tags: Financing, Funding, Grant
Making Data Work in California
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This brief is designed to help district decision-makers in California think about how they might collect and use chronic absence data, with an emphasis on leveraging their Student Information Systems (SIS) to support this work.
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Categories: Continuous Improvement and Using Data, Featured, Home Featured Resource, School Climate and Restorative Disciplinary Practices
Resource Tags: Attendance, Chronic Absence, Data, School Climate, tool
New Grant Opportunity for Schools and Communities to Improve School Climate
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Get ready to apply for the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund: Learning Communities for School Success.
We encourage school districts and community organizations to start preparing now for this competitive grant opportunity.
A Request for Proposal process is expected to begin in early 2017.
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Categories: Financing, General, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: Chronic Absence, Data, Financing, Funding, Grant, School Climate
Resource Categories: Financing
Community School Financing: Aligning Local Resources for Student Success
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This brief is an overview of community school financing in California. Five successful longstanding community school initiatives are profiled, providing evidence and ideas for funding.
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Categories: Featured, Financing, Home Featured Resource, Infrastructure and Building Partnerships
Resource Tags: Case Study, Financing, Funding
In School + On Track
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Attorney General Kamala Harris issued her fourth annual statewide report on elementary school truancy and chronic absence in California, In School + On Track 2016. Drawing from four years of longitudinal data — a sample of almost half a million K-5 students– this year’s report includes the most comprehensive analysis to date on the high rates of absenteeism among California’s elementary school students.
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Categories: Featured, Home Featured Resource, Impact, Results + Research
Resource Tags: Chronic Absence, Research, Student Outcomes
21st Century Community Learning Center
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This memo describes the 21st CCLC request for applications (RFA) for elementary and middle school students. It is intended to provide updates about the new RFA and as an application planning tool that can be shared by teams, potential partners, and stakeholders.
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Categories: Expanded Learning, Financing, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: 21st Century Learning, after school, Expanded Learning, Financing, Funding, Summer Learning
Marco de Compromiso Familiar: Una Herramienta para los Distritos Escolares de California
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Una herramienta para los distritos escolares de California. (Spanish version of Family Engagement Framework: A Tool for California School Districts – 2014)
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Categories: Family Engagement, Resources
Resource Tags: Familias, Family Engagement, Framework, tool
Family Engagement Framework: A Tool for California School Districts (2014)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The California Department of Education’s Framework framework for family engagement brings together research, requirements, and promising practices. It is a tool for leaders in school districts and county offices of education to use as they work with schools, families and communities to plan, implement, and evaluate family engagement practices that directly impact improved student achievement.
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Categories: Family Engagement
Why School-Based Health Centers Matter
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Physical and emotional well-being are essential for a child to succeed in school. Yet, many children come to school suffering from conditions that seriously affect their attendance, achievement, connectedness to school, and dropout rates. Left untreated, these conditions can have a devastating and long-term impact. California’s school-based health centers are located in schools serving some […]
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Categories: Featured, General, School-Based Health, Wellness
Resource Tags: Health, Health Center, LCAP, LCFF, Mental Health, Partnership, School-Based Health Center
Collaborate to Innovate: Advance Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards through K-12 and Expanded Learning Partnerships
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Collaborate to Innovate describes the opportunities for collaboration created by new K-12 standards and the Quality Standards for Expanded Learning Programs in California. The document outlines specific strategies and resources to support K-12 and expanded learning collaboration to advance high-quality STEM learning.
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Categories: Expanded Learning, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: Common Core, Expanded Learning, STEM
Why Family Resource Centers Matter
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Children need stability in their lives at home in order to do their best at school. Research has shown that academic resources alone cannot compensate when children have unmet basic needs or their families are in crisis. Low-income students are more likely to experience family instability, with accompanying emotional, mental, and physical health barriers to […]
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Categories: Family Support Services, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: Collaboration, family resource, Family Resource Center, family support, Family Support Services, Financing, FRC, Funding, Home featured resource, LCAP, LCFF, partnering, Partnership
Why Student Mental Health Matters
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Unmet mental health needs rank among the most pressing concerns for California educators, directly affecting student attendance, behavior, and readiness to learn. Schools have an important role to play in addressing mental health needs of school-aged youth. But schools can’t do it alone – by partnering with counties and community-based agencies and clinics, schools can create […]
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Categories: Mental Health Services, School-Based Health, Wellness
Resource Tags: Health, LCAP, LCFF, Mental Health
Introduction to COST: Building Communities of Care
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A presentation made by Alameda County’s Center for Healthy Schools and Communities. Provides an overview of Coordination of Services Teams (COST) — a team approach for coordinating learning supports and resources for students.
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Categories: Infrastructure and Building Partnerships
Resource Tags: Coordination, coordination of services, learning supports, multi-disciplinary team, team
School-based Mental Health Services: What California’s School District Leaders Should Know about Mental Health Funding and 2011 Realignment
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Through the 2011 Realignment, California permanently shifted responsibility for administration and financing of most services for vulnerable children and youth to counties — including mental health services provided via EPSDT (Early and Periodic, Diagnosis, Screening and Treatment — Medi-Cal for enrollees under 21 years of age). EPSDT Realignment provides increased funding, as well as significantly […]
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Categories: Financing, Infrastructure and Building Partnerships, Mental Health Services, Nuts + Bolts
Resource Tags: 2011 Realignment, comprehensive systems, EPSDT, Funding, Mental Health, partner, universal services
Why School Nutrition Matters
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...At least 1.7 million households with children in California cannot consistently afford enough food. Schools are in a unique position to contribute to child nutrition through school meal programs, but there are millions of children who aren’t reached by these programs. Increasing access to healthy meals at school is critical to ensuring students can learn, […]
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Categories: Child Nutrition, Wellness
Resource Tags: Funding, Health, LCAP, LCFF, Nutrition, School Climate
Why Family Engagement Matters
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Research has demonstrated the importance of building authentic partnerships between teachers and families. But how do schools implement these practices and how can school districts leverage their LCFF dollars? Co-authored by High Expectations Parental Service and the Partnership for Children & Youth, this first chapter of “Student Supports: Getting the Most out of Your LCFF […]
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Resource Tags: Family Engagement, LCAP, LCFF, Parent Engagement, Parent Involvement, Partnership, Student Outcomes
SchoolToolsTv.com
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A daily 1 minute social skills video for grades K-12. There is a new video each day of the school year. We are offering the show free of charge to Title 1 schools in California.
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Resource Categories: Social Emotional Learning
Engaging Parents and Youth: A Day of Learning Strategies & Resources
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The San Pablo Koshland Civic Unity Fellows are part of The San Francisco Foundation’s Koshland Civic Unity program that recognizes local leaders who work collaboratively to strengthen the assets in their community and address community concerns and needs. You are invited to attend and about the San Pablo Youth & Parents’ Grants Initiative and learn […]
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Resource Categories: Family Engagement
Friend2Friend
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...High School Students can access Friend2Friend by going to https://www.kognitocampus.com/peer/ and using enrollment key calfriend • 25-minute course that can be completed in multiple sittings • Simulation to recognize signs of psychological distress and connect peers to a supportive adult • Introduces the concept of mental health and strategies for improving mental wellness
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Resource Categories: Mental Health Services, School-Based Health
Dabbling in the Data
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...You’re encouraged to use data to describe your program’s benefit, but where to start? Lengthy reports and big spreadsheets are hard to interpret and don’t always help to prioritize next steps or plan for program improvement. For many people, data analysis can seem like a daunting task, requiring specialized knowledge and years of training. This […]
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Resource Tags: Analysis, Continuos Improvement, Data
Resource Categories: Continuous Improvement and Using Data
City and School District Aimed at Supporting Students, Families and Communities
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Earlier this year, the City of San Pablo agreed to provide $60,000 in matching funds for WCCUSD to hire two community school coordinators and one case manager for schools in that city. The agreement makes San Pablo to first city in West Contra Costa County to dedicate funding and staff to implement the school district’s […]
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Resource Tags: case management, case manager, city, Coordinator, partner
Resource Categories: Infrastructure and Building Partnerships
At-Risk in PK-12
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Educators and Staff have access to At-Risk in PK-12 by going to https://kognito.com/california • 45-60 minute courses that can be completed in multiple sittings • Listed: SPRC/AFSP Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention Programs (www.sprc.org) • Listed: National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) (At-Risk for High School Educators only)
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Resource Categories: Mental Health Services, School-Based Health, Wellness
Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support were issued by the California Network of Family Strengthening Networks (CNFSN) in 2012, and adopted by the National Network of Family Support and Strengthening Networks in 2013. They are the first and only standards in the country to integrate and operationalize the Principles of Family Support […]
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Resource Tags: family, Family Support Services, family supports, standards, Support Services
Resource Categories: Family Support Services, Infrastructure and Building Partnerships, Nuts + Bolts
Student Support Inventory: A Tool for Families (Spanish)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This check list is a great way for families to take stock of the ways they are supporting their child’s education. In Redwood City community school coordinators used this tool to help families prepare for Parent-Teacher Conferences. Teachers have found this tool useful too. In Spanish
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Resource Tags: Family Engagement, Parent Engagement, Parent Involvement, parent-teacher conference, Spanish, student support inventory, tool
Resource Categories: Family Engagement
Student Support Inventory: A Tool for Families (English)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This check list is a great way for families to take stock of the ways they are supporting their child’s education. In Redwood City community school coordinators used this tool to help families prepare for Parent-Teacher Conferences. Teachers have found this tool useful too.
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Resource Tags: Family Engagement, Parent Engagement, Parent Involvement, parent-teacher conference, student support inventory, tool
Resource Categories: Family Engagement
Reimagining Parent Engagement in California: Moving from 1.0 to 2.0
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A report, produced by family engagement advocates across the state, that offers a set of measurable family engagement indicators for the state to consider as it develops regulations and procedures on the implementation of LCFF.
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Resource Tags: family, indicator, LCAP, LCFF, parent, Parent Engagement, Parent Involvement
Resource Categories: Family Engagement
Our Vision for Authentic Parent Engagement (Preschool – 12th Grade)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...An infographic summarizing priority indicators of authentic family engagement. Accompanies a report, produced by family engagement advocates across the state, offering a set of measurable family engagement indicators for the state to consider as it develops regulations and procedures on the implementation of LCFF.
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Resource Tags: indicator, LCAP, LCFF, parent, Parent Engagement, Parent Involvement
Resource Categories: Family Engagement
Partner Collaboration Overview
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...An overview of the elements of successful partner collaboration, focused on partnerships needed to create a school-based health center.
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Resource Tags: Collaboration, Health, Health Center, Partnership
Resource Categories: School-Based Health
Connecting Students to Mental Health Resources: Creative Collaborations, Funding, & Evidence-Based Practices
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This toolkit – written in partnership with the California School-Based Health Alliance and Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California – explores the ways in which seven California counties are working collaboratively to provide school-linked mental health services, share financial resources to pay for these services, and address local issues such as truancy or recidivism by […]
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Resource Tags: Funding, Mental Health, Partnership
Resource Categories: Mental Health Services
Free Webinar: Intro to Restorative Justice
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Join the California School-Based Health Alliance and Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) to learn about how restorative justice programs contribute to school climate by creating a positive environment where all students have the opportunity to succeed.
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Resource Tags: Restorative Justice, School Climate
Resource Categories: School Climate and Restorative Disciplinary Practices
¿Qué es un Centro de recursos para la familia?
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A basic overview of the service-delivery approach of Family Resource Centers, also known as Family Strengthening Organizations or Family Support Organizations. (Spanish) Learn more at CaliforniaFamilyResource.org
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Resource Tags: Family Engagement, Family Resource Center
Resource Categories: Family Engagement, Family Support Services, Wellness
What is a Family Resource Center?
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A basic overview of the service-delivery approach of Family Resource Centers, also known as Family Strengthening Organizations or Family Support Organizations. (English) Learn more at CaliforniaFamilyResource.org
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Resource Tags: Family Engagement, Family Resource Center
Resource Categories: Family Engagement, Family Support Services, Wellness
National Summer Learning Association – Systems Level Indicators
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A tool to assess the level of coordination and collaboration across a community around its summer learning resources and system.
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Resource Tags: Expanded Learning, Partnership, Summer Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning
LCFF Guide – Leveraging Summer for Student Success
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This guide explains how summer learning programs support the priorities of the Local Control Funding Formula, and are an essential strategy for helping districts reach their goals.
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Resource Tags: Common Core, Expanded Learning, LCFF, Local Control Funding Formula, Summer Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning
Putting Summer to Work
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This one pager summarizes three reports about summer learning and how it supports the Common Core State Standards, social-emotional learning and teacher and staff training and preparation. The full reports can be found at SummerMatters2You.net.
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Resource Tags: Common Core, Expanded Learning, Professional Development, Social Emotional Learning, Summer Learning, Teachers
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning
America After 3 Report – Summer Learning Gains in CA
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A national and statewide parent survey documents momentum in the summer learning movement in California since 2008, with significantly more children in summer learning programs, more parents aware of the importance of summer learning, and not surprisingly, more demand.
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Resource Tags: Expanded Learning, Research, Results, Summer Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning
Infographic – Summer Learning
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Colorful flyer explains summer learning loss, the benefits of summer learning programs and some key indicators of a quality program. Great for explaining why and how summer matters.
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Resource Tags: Definition, Expanded Learning, Infographic, Summer Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning
Community Schools: A Vehicle for Educational Equality
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Community Schools: A Vehicle for Educational Equality: Part of the Big Ideas series from First Focus, this article by California State Senator Carol Liu and Congressman Michael Honda, outlines how to make America a better place to be a child and raise a family. Published in “Pioneering Change: Innovative Ideas for Children and Families.”
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Resource Tags: Definition, Equity
Resource Categories: Definition and Frameworks
Engineering a Strong Summer STEM Program
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The brief documents why and how STEM education can be successfully integrated into summer learning programs, and the significant positive impacts it can have on students and staff. The Summer STEM Project, led by the Partnership for Children and Youth, guided school district and community partners in order to design and improve learning programs that […]
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Resource Tags: Continuos Improvement, Expanded Learning, Research, Results, STEM, Summer Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning
District Attendance Tracking Tools
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Many schools, districts, and communities are interested in analyzing their attendance data for the first time to see if chronic absence is a significant problem. To simplify the process, Attendance Works has partnered with Applied Survey Research to develop self-calculating spreadsheets for school districts called the District Attendance Tracking Tools (DATTs). These tools are especially […]
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Resource Tags: Chronic Absence
Resource Categories: Continuous Improvement and Using Data
Bringing Attendance Home
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Bringing Attendance Home Toolkit For schools working to improve individual attendance and reduce chronic absence, this is a toolkit with activities and materials for sparking conversations and working with families.
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Resource Tags: Chronic Absence, toolkit
Resource Categories: Family Engagement
CCS Partnerships – Toolkit for Community Schools Partnerships
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...City and county officials are working with schools and others to create and sustain partnerships aimed at providing essential services and support to children and families. These community schools partnerships are transforming communities. The Cities Counties Schools (CCS) Partnership, a collaborative effort of the League of California Cities, the California State Association of Counties and […]
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Resource Tags: Case Study, joint use, Partnership
Resource Categories: Nuts + Bolts
Community Based Learning: Engaging Students for Success and Citizenship
(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)Loading...A paper highlighting six models of community problem solving: academically based community service, civic education, environment-based education,place-based learning, service learning, and work-based learning.
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Resource Tags: Student Outcomes
Resource Categories: College and Career Readiness, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
P21 Common Core Toolkit: A Guide to Aligning the Common Core State Standards with The Framework for 21st Century Skills
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...A toolkit designed for state and district leaders who are interested in implementing the Common Core Standards in ways that strengthen the 4Cs – critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration, communication, and creativity and innovation.
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Resource Tags: 21st Century Learning, 21st Century Skills, Common Core
Resource Categories: College and Career Readiness, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
Framework for 21st Century Learning
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...A framework presenting a holistic view of 21st Century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st Century student outcomes (a blending of specific skills, content knowledge, expertise and literacies) with innovative support systems to help students master the multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the 21st Century and beyond.
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Resource Tags: 21st Century Learning, 21st Century Skills, Student Outcomes
Resource Categories: College and Career Readiness, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
Glossary of Terms Related To Career Academies
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...A glossary to provide a common understanding for the field of the overlaps and differences among various delivery models and initiatives related to college and career readiness. The entries fall into two broad categories: the “how”, or delivery models; and the “what”, the underlying standards and initiatives.
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Resource Tags: 21st Century Learning, 21st Century Skills, Career Academy, Career Pathways, Common Core
Resource Categories: College and Career Readiness, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
California Career Resource Network
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Resource Tags: Career Pathways
Resource Categories: College and Career Readiness, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
Career Technical Education Supports Successful Local Control Accountability Plan Implementation
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A fact sheet describing Career Technical Education and how it supports successful LCAP implementation for school leaders.
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Resource Tags: Career Pathways, Career Technical Education, LCAP
Resource Categories: College and Career Readiness, Missing PDF, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
CTE Learning That Works For California: A Fact Sheet for Parents, Students, and the General Public
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A fact sheet describing Career Technical Education to the general public.
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Resource Tags: Career Pathways, Career Technical Education
Resource Categories: College and Career Readiness, Missing PDF, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
Building Blocks: An Examination of the Collaborative Approach Community Schools Are Using To Bolster Early Child Development (2012)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A case-study analysis of four local efforts to align early learning programs with K-12 education in their respective systemic community schools initiatives, including: Cincinnati, Ohio; Evansville, Indiana; Multnomah County, Oregon; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Resource Tags: Early Childhood, Early Education
Resource Categories: Early Childhood, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
Early Childhood Community School Linkages: Advancing a Theory of Change (Sept 2013)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A framework for translating the idea of cultivating cross-sector partnerships with a specific focus on improving linkages between elementary education and early childhood into practice.
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Resource Tags: Early Childhood, Early Education
Resource Categories: Early Childhood, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
Improving the Quality and Continuity of Practice Across Early Childhood Education and Elementary Community School Settings
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A research brief regarding a range of practices to help improve the quality and continuity of practice across early childhood and elementary school settings.
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Resource Tags: Early Childhood, Early Education
Resource Categories: Early Childhood, Readiness + Transitions, Resources
LCFF: Leveraging Summer for School Success (2014)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A guide to help school leaders understand why and how summer learning is an essential strategy for implementing the Local Control Funding Formula.
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Resource Tags: Expanded Learning, Funding, LCFF, Summer Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning, Resources
Why summer learning matters
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...An introductory webpage explaining why high quality summer learning is essential to preventing summer learning loss.
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Resource Tags: Expanded Learning, Summer Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning, Resources
Summer Learning Loss Video
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A 2 minute video illustrating summer learning loss.
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Resource Tags: Expanded Learning, Summer Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning, Resources
Linking Common Core and Expanded Learning (2014)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...An article showing how after school programs can reinforce learning from the school day, and serve as partners in Common Core Standards implementation.
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Resource Tags: Common Core, Expanded Learning
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning, Resources
Time Well Spent (2014)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A report providing a set of strategic elements which school districts can use to leverage expanded learning time programs and resources in support of student learning.
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Resource Tags: Common Core, Expanded Learning, Integration
Resource Categories: Expanded Learning, Resources
From Vision to Reality: How to Build a School-based Health Center from the Ground Up
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A toolkit on starting a school-based health center (SBHC).
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Resource Categories: Resources, School-Based Health, Wellness
California School-based Health Alliance: Toolkits and Services
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A webportal to toolkits and reports to help start a school-based health center or improve and expand an existing health services and programs.
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Resource Tags: Health, Health Center
Resource Categories: Resources, School-Based Health, Wellness
Need & Impact of School-Based Health Centers
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A webpage with the latest information on the impacts of school-based health centers.
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Resource Tags: Health, Health Center, Making the Case
Resource Categories: Resources, School-Based Health, Wellness
Healthier Students are Better Learners: A Missing Link in School Reforms to Close the Achievement Gap (March 2010)
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...A review of the research regarding the case for investing in school-based health care and improving access to healthcare via schools.
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Resource Tags: Health, Health Center
Resource Categories: Resources, School-Based Health, Wellness
Strategies
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A website created by the CA Department of Social Services to provide outreach, education dissemination, training, and technical assistance to strengthen organizations to support families and communities.
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Resource Categories: Family Support Services, Resources, Wellness
Family Resource Centers Network of California
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A website dedicated to the Early Start Family Resource Centers to provide parent to parent support, outreach information and referral services to families of children with disabilities and the professionals who serve them.
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Resource Categories: Family Support Services, Resources, Wellness
California Family Resource Association
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A website of resources that support effective program operation, build capacity to impact public policy change, and secure funding for family-strengthening services and programs.
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Resource Categories: Family Support Services, Resources, Wellness
Alameda County School-based Behavioral Healthcare Framework
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A School-Based Behavioral Healthcare Framework adopted in Alameda County to inform practice – intended to: create a common reference from which educators, service providers, funders, and evaluators can collaborate; serve as a training and technical assistance tool for current, new, and potential partners; serve as a foundation for schools, districts, and providers to target improvements […]
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Resource Categories: Mental Health Services, Resources, Wellness
The Role of Mental Health Services in Promoting Safe and Secure Schools (2007)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A series of guidebooks to build a foundation of information that can assist schools and school districts in developing safe learning environments.
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Resource Tags: Mental Health
Resource Categories: Mental Health Services, Resources, Wellness
Children’s Mental Health Needs, Disparities and School-Based Services: A Fact Sheet (2012)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A factsheet on the disparities between children’s mental health needs and school-based services.
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Resource Tags: Data, Making the Case, Mental Health
Resource Categories: Mental Health Services, Resources, Wellness
After School Meal Program
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A webpage with resources to help you better understand the Child and Adult Care Food Program and its requirements.
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Resource Tags: Afterschool, Nutrition
Resource Categories: Child Nutrition, Resources, Wellness
Starting a Breakfast After the Bell Program (2014)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A brief to help governance teams start thinking about how they may bring these benefits to their districts and learn about some best practices other districts have developed to establish successful breakfast after the bell programs.
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Resource Tags: Nutrition
Resource Categories: Child Nutrition, Resources, Wellness
Breakfast First
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A website that offers best practices, data, and other tools developed to help guide the implementation of effective school breakfast models.
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Resource Categories: Child Nutrition, Resources, Wellness
Breakfast in the Classroom
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A webportal for information on how and why to implement breakfast in the classroom.
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Resource Categories: Child Nutrition, Resources, Wellness
School Nutrition
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A list of publically funded school nutrition programs, with links to webpages for each program.
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Resource Categories: Child Nutrition, Resources, Wellness
Restorative Justice: A Working Guide for Our Schools
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Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
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Fix School Discipline: How We Can Fix School Discipline Toolkit
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Positive School Climate
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The 12 Dimensions of School Climate Measured
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School Climate: Improvement Process
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Webpage with school climate improvement process description – 5 stages. Includes 5 goals of school climate improvement process and link to guiding principles for each stage.
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National School Climate Center’s Definition and Overview
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A Review of School Climate Research
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A review of the research on school climate – focusing on five essential dimensions of school climate: Safety, Relationships, Teaching and Learning, Institutional Environment, and the School Improvement Process. Concludes with a critique of the field and a series of recommendations for school climate researchers and policymakers.
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Academic Learning + Social Emotional Learning = National Priority
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Resource Tags: Making the Case, School Climate Research, Social Emotional Learning
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Educators’ Social and Emotional Skills Vital to Learning.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...An article focused on teachers’ own social and emotional learning. Describes promising interventions for promoting teacher SEL competencies and strategies educators can use to promote SEL in their students.
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Resource Tags: Capacity Building, School Climate, Social Emotional Learning, Teachers
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Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners. The Role of Noncognitive Factors in Shaping School Performance: A Critical Literature Review
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A review of the literature on noncognitive factors on school performance – working from the idea that learning is an interplay between cognitive and noncognitive factors and that intelligence is embedded in both the environment and in socio-cultural processes. Farrington, C.A., Roderick, M., Allensworth, E., Nagaoka, J., Keyes, T.S., Johnson, D.W., & Beechum, N.O. (2012).
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Strengthening Family Engagement Through Teacher Preparation and Professional Development
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Family Involvement
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Web-portal for Harvard Family Research Project’s family involvement initiative.
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District Model for Parent Partnerships
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School Model for Parent Partnerships
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Six Types of Parent Involvement
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PTA National Standards for Family-School Partnerships Assessment Guide
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...PTA National Standards for Family-School Partnerships Assessment Guide describes indicators for each of the six accepted standards for family-school partnerships.
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California PTA’s Family Engagement Introduction
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Family Engagement Framework: Tool for California School Districts (2011)
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Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A framework for family engagement based on the research which shows that initiatives that take on a partnership orientation—in which student achievement and school improvement are seen as a shared responsibility, relationships of trust and respect are established between home and school, and families and school staff see each other as equal partners—create the conditions […]
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Resource Tags: Capacity Building, Family Engagement, Framework, Parent Engagement, Parent Involvement, Teachers
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A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family & Community Engagements on Student Achievement (2002)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A synthesis of 51 studies on the impact of family engagement on student achievement – includes research findings and highlights impactful practice.
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Financing Community Schools: Leveraging Resources to Support Student Success
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A report looking at how community schools finance their work – describes the resources, partnerships, and activities community schools generate with the dollars they have; where monies come from; and the mechanisms community schools use to leverage additional funding and build their capacity to achieve agreed upon results. Draws on survey results and case studies […]
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School Climate Improvement Process
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A School Climate Improvement Process based on a cyclical and continuous process of preparation, evaluation, understanding the evaluation findings and action planning, implementing the action plan, and re-evaluation and continuing the cycle of improvement efforts.
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Resource Tags: Continuos Improvement, Cycle of Inquiry, School Climate
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Attending School Every Day: Making Progress, Taking Action in Oakland Schools
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)Loading...A report providing an in-depth look into the local attendance patterns of students in Oakland, including an examination of overall attendance, differences in attendance patterns by group and grade levels, how attendance is impacting outcomes. Also an examination of strategies being employed at the district level to impact attendance.
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What is Chronic Absence?
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Fixing Our National Accountability System (2014)
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Community Schools Evaluation Toolkit
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A starter guide for community school staff who want to use data to tell their story and improve their community schools.
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Continuous Improvement – Definition
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Coordination of Services Team (COST) Tools
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Scaling Up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy
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Building Community Schools: A Guide for Action
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Community Schools Results (2013)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A brief summarizing the evidence of how a diverse set of community school initiatives are preparing students to learn, helping them succeed, and preparing them for future success.
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Positive Student Outcomes in Community Schools (February 2012)
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Measuring Social Return on Investment for Community Schools: A Case Study (2013)
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A case study of two community schools operated by The Children’s Aid Society in partnership with the New York City Department of Education that examines the social return on investment.
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What is a Community School?
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Chronic Absence Community School Video
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School – District Side by Side
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FAQs on Community Schools
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