This webinar discusses strategies to address the comprehensive needs of students and families through community schools and wraparound supports. Panelists explain the evidence in this field, discuss how community schools and integrated student supports can be a model for collaborative leadership and parent, family, and community engagement, and offer recommendations for Governors and other state policy leaders.
Presenters:
- Anna Maier, Senior Policy Advisor and Researcher, Learning Policy Institute
- José Muñoz, Director of Coalition for Community Schools, Institute for Educational Leadership
- Joan Wasser Gish, Director of Systemic Impact, Boston College Center for Thriving Children
- Moderator: Seth Gerson, Program Director, K-12 Education, National Governors Association
Resources:
- AIR: The Community Schools Initiative
- Brookings Institute Brown Center Chalkboard: Transforming wraparound services into an engine of opportunity
- Center for Thriving Children: Integrated Student Support Overview and Policy Resources Slide Deck
- Center for Thriving Children: National Guidelines for Integrated Student Support
- Center for Thriving Children: Building Systems of Integrated Student Support: A Policy Brief for Local and State Leaders
- Center for Thriving Children: The Impact of Integrated Student Support on Outcomes
- Center for Thriving Children and Communities in Schools: Integrated Student Supports State Policy Toolkit
- Child Trends: District Leaders’ Strategies for Funding and Implementing Community Schools
- Coalition for Community Schools: Community Schools Fact Sheet
- Coalition for Community Schools: Supporting One Another As A Blueprint for the Future
- Coalition for Community Schools: Six Strategies To Build Empowering Youth Engagement
- Learning Policy Institute: Community Schools as an Effective School Improvement Strategy: A Review of the Evidence
- Learning Policy Institute: Technical Assistance for Community Schools: Enabling Strong Implementation
- Learning Policy Institute: Slide Deck: State Support for Community Schools
- Partnership for the Future of Learning: Community Schools Playbook
- RAND Corporation: Illustrating the Promise of Community Schools
- U.S. Department of Education FAQ: Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Support Full-Service Community Schools & Related Strategies
Reflect And Redesign
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices K-12 Education Team is hosting a series of conversations with subject matter experts, state education leaders, and practitioners that reflect on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and elevate strategies and models for redesigning key features of the education system as states and school districts move forward. View all webinars in the series.
