BASICS Toolkit

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the basics

Building, Assessing, Sustaining, and Improving Community Schools

A Toolkit for School Staff and Technical Assistance Providers

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BASICS Toolkit

BASICS Toolkit Overview

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The BASICS Toolkit was designed to provide school staff and technical assitance providers with tools to use with school staff, after-school program staff, community members,and other youth and adults that are working to implement a community school model. The Web site contains 'tools': meeting agendas, presentations, planning activities, and other documents that can be adapted for use in many settings. The complete content for this site in pdf format:

090323_Full_BASICS_toolkit.doc.pdf

The the toolkit is organized around 8 topics that are all critical to Community Schools in all stages of development. The tools for each topic is organized into a one-day session but the tools can be used in many ways - click here for some ideas on how to adapt this content for your site.

BASICS TOOLKIT

Session: Topic	Description
PREFACE	A note on Community Schools by Milbrey McLaughlin
Session 1: Collaboration	Emphasizes the basic underpinnings of community schools including the importance of developing collaborations to accomplish the work.
Session 2: Academic Supports	Focuses on the three common forms of after-school academic supports systems available in community schools and the integration fo thes support systems with the school's core instructional program.
Session 3: Comprehensive Family and Youth Resources	Examines the value of bringing together a combination of core programs and services into schools. Community schools help free teachers to teach by streamlining and leveraging resources for youth and families in a more coordinated, cost-effective, and responsive way.
Session 4: Shared Leadership	Prepares teams to incorporate shared leadership practices into their school.
Session 5: Youth Development	Explores how school climate and fostering a positive environment for learning and development can affect the engagement and motivation of youth, both in and out of school.
Session 6: Assessing Results	With increasing emphasis on accountability and imporvied student outcomes, it is important for education reform intiatives to provide evidence of their success and effectiveness. Provides sites with tools for incoporating assessments into their work.
Session 7: Sustainability	Provides a framework for sites to explore what they can do beyond fundraising to support community schools, including constituency-building, advocacy, public relations, adn human resources.
Session 8: Lessons Learned from Implementation	Brings community school teams together to share successes and insights gained during the implemenation process.

“The school can be an immensely important institution at the heart of tomorrow's community. It can contribute more than its share toward the important goal of social cohesion. But there are those in the educational world who believe that this ‑ however desirable ‑is simply asking too much of the schools. I cannot agree. If the schools help to build community, the benefits will not all flow in one direction ‑ from school to community. The task of building the larger community will revitalize and renew the schools themselves. It will pull them out of their insulated place in American life and make them a part of the vital mainstream.”

– John W. Gardner

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