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Marisa Macy; Marla J. Lohmann; Elizabeth Neukirch; Kelcie Burke – School Community Journal, 2024
Community partnerships are essential for vitality in neighborhoods. A growing demand exists for training programs to attract and prepare a highly qualified workforce to serve young children and their families. Personnel across different stages of their career can help address our teacher shortages. Service learning is a useful strategy in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Community Involvement
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Katy Gregg; Nicolette P. Rickert; Alisa Leckie – School Community Journal, 2024
There are many models and examples of family-school-community partnerships. Local to Savannah, Georgia, Parent University is a unique community organization designed to support, guide, and empower parents and their children (from birth to 18 years old) to build bridges between the community and the schools. This nonprofit has successfully…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Programs, Family School Relationship, Parent School Relationship
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Hope G. Casto; Kristie LeBeau; John W. Sipple – School Community Journal, 2024
Educational and community leaders can use a community aware policy perspective in the quest for educational opportunity, equity, and community vitality. This school-community conceptual framework presents four elements of the school-community relationship that highlight the intersection between the educational and community levels of analysis, as…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Community Relationship, Rural Schools, School Role
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Marliese R. Peltier; Patricia A. Edwards; Jacquelyn Sweeney – School Community Journal, 2024
Educational research consistently underscores the significance of family engagement in children's education. However, diverse ideals regarding family involvement often constrain the potential for meaningful school-home interactions within culturally diverse urban communities. Amidst education reform priorities such as high-stakes testing and…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family School Relationship, Urban Schools, School Community Relationship
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Navjit Gaurav; Beata Batorowicz; John L. Lewis; Heather M. Aldersey – School Community Journal, 2024
This study applied a case study approach to explore the participation experiences of children with physical disabilities in a community school in Mumbai to understand how schools might improve their students' meaningful participation and social interaction. This study identified three categories of focus: (1) physically accessible and safe school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Planning
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Kyle Miller; Jordan A. Arellanes; Toy Beasley; Megan Kybartas – School Community Journal, 2024
Fathers make important contributions to children's learning and development; however, schools and community organizations consistently report challenges to engaging fathers in their work. As part of a larger community-based participatory research project, a local fatherhood coalition created and distributed a survey to learn how various…
Descriptors: Social Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Personnel, School Personnel