Community Schools: Resources

General

• AFT American Educator Community School articles
• Building Community Schools eLearning Course (for AFT members only)
• Coalition for Community Schools
• AFT Community Schools brochure
• Community Schools Playbook | Partnership for Future Learning
• Is My School a Community School? A Checklist for Teachers and School Staff
• President Randi Weingarten’s keynote speech, AFT convention 2008
• Successful and Sustainable Community Schools: The Union as an Essential Ingredient (under revision)

Community Schools Case Studies

• Albuquerque, New Mexico (AFT, 2016)
• Baltimore, Maryland (AFT, 2018)
• Building Community with Community Schools - Rome, N.Y. (AFT American Educator, Summer 2021)
• Chicago, Illinois (AFT, 2021)
• Counting on Community Schools in New York's North Country - Massena Central School District (AFT American Educator, Summer 2021)
• Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School: A Community School That Honors Its Neighborhood’s Legacy of Educational Justice (Learning Policy Institute, 2021)
• Minnesota - statewide story (AFT, 2021)
• St. Paul, Minnesota (AFT, 2016)

Policy and Collective Bargaining

• "Surrounded by Support: Partnerships between communities and schools connect students with the services they need"  (American Educator, Summer 2009)
• Community schools coalition action plan (AFT news)
• Expanded learning time policy (National Center on Time & Learning)
• Federal policy (Coalition for Community Schools)

Positive Outcomes

• Coalition for Community Schools results page

  
  Community School Principles

  • Tool kits
  • Center for American Progress reports
  • Community Schools brochure
  • Coalition for Community Schools: Networks

  Family Engagement

  • St. Paul (Minn.) Federation of Teachers home visiting project evaluation
  • St. Paul Federation of Teachers "Good Morning America" segment

  Expanded Learning Time

  • AFT: It’s About Time
  • National Center for Time and Learning
  • Center for American Progress Reports
    • All Hands on Deck!
    • Expanded Learning Time in High Schools
    • Expanded Learning Time in Action
    • Expanded Learning Time by the Numbers