Presenters:

Presenters: Presenters:

Martin J. BlankMartin J. Blank,, President, Institute for Educational Leadership; Director, Coalition for Community SchoolsCarolyn Kramer, Seattle Public Schools, FSCS Grantee

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Note: Comments and opinions expressed during the webinar are those of the Coalition’s and DO NOT represent official positions of the U.S. Department of Education.

All questions concerning the guidelines should be directed to: [email protected].

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Public elementary or secondary school that works with its LEA and community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, and other public or private entities to provide a coordinated and integrated set of comprehensive academic, social, and health services that respond to the needs of its students, students’ family members, and community members.


A community school is both a place and a set of partnerships between the school and other community resources. It provides academics, health and social services, youth and community development, and community engagement, and brings together many partners to offer a range of support and opportunities for children, youth, families, and communities. The school is generally open for extended hours for everyone in the community. Community schools may operate in all or a subset of schools in an LEA.

(Source: Title I Guidelines, U.S. Department of Education, Sept. 2, 2009)


1. Do you currently work with community schools?

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Functions:•Convene Partners•Facilitate Change•Provide Leadership, Staff & Political & Other Connections•Measure Results

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIPCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

SITE LEVEL LEADERSHIPSITE LEVEL LEADERSHIP•Lead Agency•Site Team•Community School Coordinator

Stakeholders:•Principals•Community School •Coordinator•Families•Teachers•Citizens•Community Partners•Youth

Functions:•Results Framework•Financing•Resource Development•Oversight/Evaluation•Communication•TA & Professional Development Strategy•Policy

Functions:•Results focused•Community Mobilization•Program Alignment & Integration•Partnership Development

Stakeholders:•School•Local Gov’t•Civic Orgs.•Corporation•Community Agency•Neighborhood•Families•Youth

Intermediaries:•School District•LEA•United Way•Local Gov’t•Local Ed.Fund

INTERMEDIAINTERMEDIARYRY

Estimated available funds: $5,000,000 Estimated award range: $275,000 - $500,000

per year Estimated number of awards: 8-12 Project period: up to 5 years Maximum award: $500,000 per year


Results-focused partnerships can transform the capacity of both the school and its partners to better serve students’ and families’ diverse needs and improve their outcomes.

A full-service community school coordinator is central to the effective facilitation of partnerships.

Entities will partner with applicant to coordinate existing services or to provide additional services.

Memorandum of Understanding between applicant and partners.

Alignment of goals, services, activities, objectives, performance measures

Integration of new and existing programs with the school’s (schools’) core instructional program.

Data-driven decision making


Applicant must be part of a consortium that consists of a local educational agency and one or more community-based organizations, non-profit organizations, or other public or private entities.

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Eligible parties may apply as a group ◦ The term used to refer to the group may vary ◦ Commonly used terms include (but are not limited to):

Consortium Joint Application Cooperative Arrangement

Who acts as the Applicant? The group agreement. ◦ Members must designate one member of the group to apply for

the grant or establish a separate, eligible legal entity to apply. ◦ The members of the group must enter into an agreement detailing

the activities that each member of the group plans to perform and binds each member of the group to every statement and assurance made in the application.

◦ The agreement must be included in the application.

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Establish or expand one or more elementary or secondary full-service community schools.

Scientifically-based research: Proposed project based on scientifically-based research.

Services: Each grant applicant must propose to provide at least three of the eligible services at each participating elementary or secondary school


Strategies that Support Turning Around Persistently

Lowest-Achieving Schools (Up to 2 points)

Competitive preference will be given to applications that propose to serve persistently lowest-achieving schools and are currently implementing or plan to implement one of three school intervention models to enable these schools to become full-service community schools.


Applicants seeking to receive this priority must describe: ◦ the school intervention model that would be or is

being implemented to improve academic outcomes for students;

◦ the academic, social, and/or health services that would be provided and why; and

◦ how the academic, social and/or health services provided would align with and support the school intervention model implemented.


“Persistently lowest-achieving schools means, as determined by the State--

(a) Any Title I school in improvement, corrective action, or restructuring that —

Is among the lowest-achieving five percent of Title I schools in improvement, corrective action, or restructuring or the lowest-achieving five Title I schools in improvement, corrective action, or restructuring in the State, whichever number of schools is greater; or

Is a high school that has had a graduation rate as defined in 34 C.F.R. § 200.19(b) that is less than 60 percent over a number of years; and


(b) Any secondary school that is eligible for, but does not receive, Title I funds that —

Is among the lowest-achieving five percent of secondary schools or the lowest-achieving five secondary schools in the State that are eligible for, but do not receive, Title I funds, whichever number of schools is greater; or

Is a high school that has had a graduation rate as defined in 34 C.F.R. § 200.19(b) that is less than 60 percent over a number of years.”

(source: School Improvement Guidance, January 2010)


What is working: Having a Community Advisory Board – engagement of

stakeholders has been critical to success of project Creating buy in at the school level- critical to start early and

maintain often Quality of services provided has been quite good- the extra

attention that we can provide service providers is really paying off

We have created a infrastructure to guide partnerships- Memorandum’s of Understanding/Agreement, clear expectations around roles of schools and community organizations, manuals, single point of contact in schools, systems to support collaboration of partners

Collaborative and distributive leadership


Challenges: Gaining buy in at the school level Getting community partners to collaborate and not

compete Creating a system of collaboration to guide

community partners Sustainability Not prepared to offer childcare for parents (so that

they can participate) Family engagement



What are the key factors for consideration when building a strong full service community school?

What are the top three challenges to starting the process and building a full service community school?

It appears past grantees were all urban – can proposals from rural schools be competitive?

It appears this program is less about health care services and more about a transformative process of which health care may be a component – can a Community Health Center effectively serve as the lead applicant?


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1. Do you have a better understanding about Full Service Community Schools grant?

2. Will you be applying for the grant?

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Coalition for Community Schools: www.communityschools.org◦ Planning tools:

http://www.communityschools.org/full_service_community_school_grant.aspx

U.S. Department of Education: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/communityschools/applicant.html ◦ Telephone: (202) 401 - 2091◦ Email: [email protected]


Marty Blank, Director, Coalition for Community Schools, President, Institute for Educational Leadership, [email protected]

Shital C. Shah, [email protected] www.communityschools.org


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