Education and Early Learning
From early childhood education, through high school and beyond, preparing children for school and improving educational opportunities are key components of a healthy community. This section highlights examples of and tools for building strong collaborations which support lifelong learning.
Handbooks & Manuals
Practitioner Templates
Training Materials
Other Resources
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LISC's Community Investment Collaborative for Kids (CICK). Quality early care and education is a proven means for preparing children for future academic success and a necessity for working parents. Yet virtually every low-income neighborhood lacks an adequate supply of quality child care facilities. To help meet these needs, LISC's Community Investment Collaborative for Kids (CICK) offers financial and technical assistance to develop and improve child care centers.
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LISC’s Educational Initiatives & Educational Facilities Financing Center. LISC supports after-school enrichment activities, parent engagement initiatives and programs to remove non-academic barriers to learning, as well as service-learning in order to provide students with a real-world context for learning through curriculum-based service projects. In addition, the LISC Educational Facilities Financing Center (EFFC) helps finance individual school facilities, develop local facilities funds, and foster public policy initiatives.
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PolicyForResults.org - The Center for the Study of Social Policy at the Universityof Chicago maintains this website which offers examples of effective policies to ensure (a) Children Enter School Ready to Learn and Prepared to Succeed, Improve early grade-level reading, and (b) Youth are Prepared to Succeed as Adults, Increase high school completion.
Case Studies, Articles & Reports
- Evaluating Integration in Elev8, by Stephen Baker and Lauren Rich, Jul 20, 2011
- Research Round Up: Working Together in Strive, Reviewed by Richard Mertens, Jul 20, 2011
- How a neighborhood organization is bringing parents and schools together so the whole community benefits, By Elizabeth Duffrin, May 31, 2011
- Staying in one place = better schooling, By Eileen Figel, Jun 24, 2011
- Community schools — providing multiple dividends across an entire neighborhood, By John McCarron, May 31, 2011