Building Community through Connecting With Schools

The Center for Collaborative Solutions recently released volume 4 in their New Relationships with Schools: Building Community by Connecting With Schools series studying organizations that have sought to strengthen their communities by working with schools to improve public education. The study highlights the work of five such organizations throughout the country, including one in San Francisco that used “conversation-based engagement,” speaking directly with schools and communities regarding their needs in order to influence educational policy and practice. The study outlines the core beliefs common with all five organizations as well as the benefits and challenges of conversation-based engagement. To view all four volumes of this study, click here