Developing Community Schools, Community Learning Centers, Extended-service Schools and Multi-service Schools: International Exemplars for Practice, Policy and Research

✍ Scribed by Hal A. Lawson, Dolf van Veen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 446
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on special organizational configurations for schools in diverse parts of the world. Some of these new organizational and institutional designs are called multi-service schools, others are called extended service schools and still others are called community learning centers. While these schools have different names and notable different characteristics, they belong in the same category because of a common feature in their design: they connect schools with once-separate community programs and services.Chief among the prototypes for these new organizational and institutional designs are the ones featured in the book’s title. Some are called multi-service schools to indicate that they selectively provide some new programs and services. Others are called extended service schools to indicate that they serve young people beyond the regular school day, seeking influence and control over out-of-school time while enabling alternative teaching-learning strategies, and providing services other than typical “pupil support services.” Still others are called community learning centers, a name that showcases the educational functions and priorities of schools and announcing priorities for adult learning and development. Community schools, still called in some places full-service community schools, serves as a prototype that increasingly positions schools as multi-purpose, multi-component, anchor institutions serving identifiable neighborhoods and entire rural communities. The book is structured to enhance understanding of these organizational prototypes and provides comparative social analysis. It also identifies knowledge needs and gaps as well as developmental territory for the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-22
A Shared Rationale for New School Designs with Place-Based Differences....Pages 23-47
A Framework for Planning and Evaluating the New Design....Pages 49-75
A Planning Framework for the Five Core Components....Pages 77-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-126
Redesigning a Core Function of Schools: A Systemic, Evidence-Based Approach to Student Support....Pages 127-147
Enhancing and Extending Full Service Community Schools in Saskatchewan, Canada: Educators Becoming Part of the Hub....Pages 149-171
Community Schools in Ghent: Strengthening Neighbourhoods in Belgium (Flanders)....Pages 173-204
Community Learning Centers in Quebec: Changing Lives, Changing Communities....Pages 205-227
Twenty Years of Community Schools in Groningen: A Dutch Case Study....Pages 229-252
The Children’s Aid Society Community Schools: Research-Based, Results-Oriented....Pages 253-275
From School to Children’s Community: The Development of Manchester Communication Academy, England....Pages 277-302
The History and Development of a Partnership Approach to Improve Schools, Communities and Universities....Pages 303-321
Front Matter....Pages 323-325
Closing Two Achievement Gaps: Nominees for Practice and Policy Innovations....Pages 327-362
Planning for Scale-Up, Scale-Out, Sustainability, Continuous Improvement, and Accountability....Pages 363-405
The New Design as a Catalyst for Systems Change: Forging New Relationships with Universities and Governments....Pages 407-434
Back Matter....Pages 435-437

✦ Subjects

Administration, Organization and Leadership; International and Comparative Education; Educational Policy and Politics