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KnowledgeBases > The Positive Learning Climates KnowledgeBase > Element 2 > Activity 1 > Task 5 > Sub-task 2

Checklists Strenghtening Partnerships: Community School Assessment Checklist _EXTERNAL_LINK

This Coalition for Community Schools document contains three checklists designed to help schools assess partnership activities within their community.

Tools Characteristics of Our Community

This worksheet from the Washington Education Association's Building Community Connections publication may help school leaders create a community profile.

Alternate format: PDF

Tools Community Vision - Key Questions

This list of seven questions to pose to community constituents is designed to help schools identify a vision of what the community wants and expects from its schools. The questions were developed by the 2003 Baldrige National Quality Award in Education recipient, Community Consolidated School District 15 in Palatine, Illinois.

Tools School as a Caring Community Profile - II (SCCP-II) _EXTERNAL_LINK

As noted at its website, "the School as a Caring Community Profile-II (SCCP-II) is an instrument developed by the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility) to help schools assess themselves as caring communities. The SCCP may be administered at any point (ideally at the beginning) of a character education initiative and then at later points to assess progress."

References Six Types of School-Family-Community Involvement _EXTERNAL_LINK

This National Network of Partnership Schools webpage discusses six types of cooperation among families, schools, and other community organizations as identified by Johns Hopkins University Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships Director Joyce Epstein.

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