What are key factors that make a community school strategy successful?
The following findings from the publication, Learning Together: The Developing Field of School-Community Initiatives address key factors in the success of community schools strategies. • Stable leadership and long-term financing methods are vital to sustaining and expanding preschool-community initiatives. • Diversified funding, careful site selection, visibility and organized constituent support are also important. • Going to Scale depends not only on increasing the number of sites but also on ensuring that the initiatives guiding principles penetrate and transform schools, their partner institutions and neighborhoods. • Successful expansion requires clear goals, good timing and sufficient funding and support to maintain essential program features during periods of rapid growth. Community schools are designed to do a better job for children and families by using existing resources as efficiently and effectively as possible. Source: Learning Together: The Developing Field of School-Com
