Community Schools National Forum - Scaling up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy

This year's theme, Scaling up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy reflects the Coalition's new guide. We are consciously encouraging school and community leaders to develop long-term systemic approaches to community schools implementation – approaches that are consistent with our belief that community schools are fundamental to education reform. Scale up efforts are particularly important at a time when there is growing discussion about the influence non-school factors, particularly poverty, has on student achievement.  The emphasis on scaling up also connects community schools to strategies such as Promise Neighborhoods, Choice Neighborhoods, P-20 initiatives, and Cradle-to-Career education.