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Presenters:
Martin J. Blank, President, Institute for Educational Leadership;
Director, Coalition for Community Schools
Carolyn 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.
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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)
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Do you currently work with community
schools?
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Functions:
•Results Framework
•Financing
•Resource Development
•Oversight/Evaluation
•Communication
•TA & Professional
Development Strategy
•Policy
Stakeholders:
•School
•Local Gov’t
•Civic Orgs.
•Corporation
•Community Agency
•Neighborhood
•Families
•Youth
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
INTERMEDIARY
Functions:
Intermediaries:
•Convene Partners
•Facilitate Change
•Provide Leadership, Staff
& Political & Other Connections
•Measure Results
•School District
•LEA
•United Way
•Local Gov’t
•Local Ed.Fund
SITE LEVEL LEADERSHIP
Functions:
•Results focused
•Community Mobilization
•Program Alignment
& Integration
•Partnership Development
•Lead Agency
•Site Team
•Community School Coordinator
Stakeholders:
•Principals
•Community School
•Coordinator
•Families
•Teachers
•Citizens
•Community Partners
•Youth
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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
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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
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Applicant must be part of a consortium that
consists of a local educational agency and one
or more community-based organizations, nonprofit 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.
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Scientifically-based research: Proposed
project based on scientifically-based research.
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Services: Each grant applicant must propose to
provide at least three of the eligible services at
each participating elementary or secondary
school
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Strategies that Support Turning Around Persistently
Lowest-Achieving Schools (Up to 2 points)
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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.
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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.
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“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 lowestachieving 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
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(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)
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What is working:
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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 partnershipsMemorandum’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
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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
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Intent to Apply: June 23, 2010
Applications Due: July 23, 2010
Applications Reviewed: Summer 2010
All Grant Awards Announced: September 2010
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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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Do you have a better understanding about
Full Service Community Schools grant?
Will you be applying for the grant?
Please select “yes” or “no” in the dialogue box
that appears on your screen!
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Coalition for Community Schools:
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◦ Planning tools:
http://www.communityschools.org/full_service_co
mmunity_school_grant.aspx
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U.S. Department of Education:
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/communitysc
hools/applicant.html
◦ Telephone: (202) 401 - 2091
◦ Email: [email protected]
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Marty Blank, Director, Coalition for
Community Schools, President, Institute for
Educational Leadership, [email protected]
Shital C. Shah, [email protected]
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