TOPIC: Business Support for Schools

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Training

• Community Outreach:School Resources to Address Barriers to Learning

Guides to Practice

• School-Community Partnerships

Technical Aid Packets

• Volunteers to Help Teachers and Schools Address Barriers to Learning

Introductory Packets

• Parent and Home Involvement in Schooling

• America's Promise Alliance
• At-Risk Youth and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
• Business/Education Partnerships
• Business Goes to School
• A Business Guide to Support Employee and Family Involvement in Education
• Businesses Helping Schools
• Career Exploration and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
• Community/School Partnerships: A National Survey
• The Corporate Imperative: A Business Guide for Implementing Strategic Education Partnerships
• Education-Business Partnerships: Scientific Work Experience
• Employers, Families and Education
• Engaging Business Partners in Education Programs
• Engaging Youth in Times of Personal and Educational Transition: Selected Resources
• How to Build Your Community Partnerships for Learning
• Impacts and Outcomes of Service-Learning in K-12 Settings: Selected Resources
• K-12 Education| Institute for a Competitive Workforce
• MicroSociety: Bringing Real Life to Learning
• Research Indicates Initiatives Such as Job Shadowing Do Make a Difference
• The Role of Business in Education
• Supporting the Education Pipeline: A Business Engagement Toolkit for Community Based Organizations
• Tutor/Mentor Connection
• Volunteers in Public Schools
• Work Experience Education

• America Reads Challenge
• American Society of Association Executives
• Cisco Networking Academy
• Communities in Schools
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Institute for Educational Leadership
• Junior Achievement
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• New Jersey Business Coalition for Educational Excellence

• "Buckets into the Sea: Why Philantrophy Isn't Changing Schools, and How it Could," in With the Best of Intentions: How Philantrophy is Reshaping K-12 Education, ed. Frederick M. Hess (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education, 2005), 49-76.
• Building school-family-community partnerships in middle and high schools.  Sanders, Mavis G.; Epstein, Joyce L. In: Mavis G. Sanders, Ed; et al. Schooling students placed at risk:  Research, policy, and practice in the education of poor and minority adolescents.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers: Mahwah, NJ, US, 2000. p. 339-361 of xxi, 387pp.
• Making School Reform Work : New Partnerships for Real Change. Hill, P. T. & Harvey, J. 2004. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press.
• Partnerships for implementing school and community prevention programs. Nelson, Geoffrey; Amio, Jeannette L.; Prilleltensky, Isaac; Nickels, Peggy. Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation. 2000. 11 (1): p. 121-145.
• Partnering with business coalitions: common interests and a collaborative mindset make coalitions partners in education. Brett Pawolski. 2008. An article from: Techniques Publisher: Thomson Gale.
• Shaking up the schoolhouse : How to Support and Sustain Educational Innovation. Schlechty, P. C. 2001. Publisher San Francisco : Jossey-Bass.

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