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Upcoming Events
Monday, July 23
Resource Coordinator Luncheon
Yale Elementary School
7025 S. Princeton
Chicago, IL
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Register with Havilah Darnieder
** RE-SCHEDULED FOR **
Monday, July 30
Leveraged Resources: Expanding Capacity to Support Student Success
Metropolitan Family Services
235 E. 103rd St.
Chicago, IL
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
8 slots are still available
Register with Greg Hall
See description at right
July 24 - 25
Out-of-School Time
High School Conference
Chicago, IL
Hosted by After School Matters and The Collaborative for Building After-School Systems
More information here
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Creating a Community Vision for Our Children's Success
October 19, 2012 -
Chicago, IL
Our 8th Annual Illinois Community Schools Forum supports community school development by gathering stakeholders to share creative approaches to organizing systems and resources to support student and family success.
Visit our website for more information.
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Registration is open for the 8th Annual Illinois Community Schools Forum
The Federation for Community Schools and its members invite you to the 8th Annual Illinois Community Schools Forum: Creating a Community Vision for Our Children's Success. Our 2012 Forum focuses on how schools, communities, families, and the multiple systems that impact our children's development can work together to create a community vision for our children's success.
The day's program will feature:
- Invited keynote presenters: Lt. Governor Sheila Simon, Superintendent Carlos Garcia, and Jim Broadway
- Special tracks for new and experienced resource coordinators, community partners, high school practitioners, schools and district leadership, parents / parent organizers, advocates, and teachers
- Workshops for practitioners implementing community schools in rural, small city, suburban, and urban community settings
- Presentations featuring promising practices from around the country, including teams from:
- Attendance Works (CA)
- Center for Strategic Community Innovation (Berkeley, CA)
- Center for University-Assisted Community Schools (Indianapolis, IN)
- Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation (Evansville, IN)
- Kent School Services Network (Kent County, MI)
- San Francisco Unified School District (San Francisco, CA)
- Workshops highlighting community school best practices from around the Midwest region covering topics like parent engagement, school-based mental health programs, advisory board development, aligning out-of-school day programming with classroom learning and university-assisted community school models
- Pre-Forum Seminar: Scaling Up Community & School Partnerships offered in partnership with the national Coalition for Community Schools (Learn more)
Who should attend?
We invite individuals and teams of community school practitioners to attend, including: resource coordinators, principals, agency partners, after-school providers, teachers, parents and parent organizers, social workers, funders, and anyone interested in learning more about the community school model.
Register before September 1st to receive an early registration discount!
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Advocating for Our Work
A few weeks ago Chicago Public Schools' community school partners faced uncertainty about funding that the district provides for community school partnerships. Although we are grateful this matter has been resolved for next year, this issue highlights the importance of making sure policymakers are aware of the great success of the community school model. The Federation's Program Advisory Committee (PAC) and staff are continuing to implement strategies to deepen the commitment to the community school model among public leaders and policymakers in Illinois.
Recently we disseminated tools and materials to Chicago's lead partner organizations that can be used to talk about community schools and chronicle the outcomes and methods being used to implement community schools. As we move forward we would like to highlight these materials after they have been personalized for community schools across the state. Please be sure to send us a copy of the materials that you develop - or your revised versions of these tools - so that we will have them as we move forward together. Also, be sure to stay in touch with your Program Advisory Committee members and attend stakeholder meetings to stay abreast of ongoing efforts to ensure this important work continues.
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Resource Coordinator Luncheon
July 23, 2012
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
We invite community school resource coordinators to join us on Monday, July 23, for a Resource Coordinator Luncheon hosted by Billie Poe, resource coordinator for Yale Elementary School / Youth Guidance. Billie will be sharing information about their summer programming and how she is using the summer to prepare for the 2012-13 school year.
Resource Coordinator Luncheons offer participants an opportunity to learn from each others' work and engage in shared problem solving. To ensure that Luncheons offer coordinators a safe environment to explore any struggles they may be facing, we ask that only resource coordinators / site coordinators attend.
Lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Havilah Darnieder by Thursday, July 19, so that we can order sufficient food.
Meeting Details
Monday, July 23
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Yale Elementary School
7025 S. Princeton Ave
Chicago, IL 60621
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Leveraging Resources: Expanding Capacity to Support Student Success
NEW DATE: Monday, July 30, 2012
9:00 am - 12:00 p.m.
This training will provide an overview of the ways in which community schools forge partnerships to access and maximize community-based resources and leverage assets. Participants will learn about and develop strategies that community schools - regardless of funding source - can use to sustain and expand their current programming through strategic partnerships and collaboration. Participants will also receive tools for use in identifying and targeting local partnerships that have the potential to bring resources to the table and make their programs sustainable.
This training will be held at Metropolitan Family Services, located at 235 W. 103rd St., Chicago, IL.
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Institute for Family Focused Organizing
Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) invites you to join them on August 8-10, 2012 for their Train-the-Trainer / Organizer workshop on Phase 2: Community Outreach & Action.
Throughout COFI's 17-year history, parent participants in the Community Outreach & Action phase of COFI's model has redirected hundreds of thousands of dollars towards communities and won new community centers, playgrounds, and school facilities, among other victories.
At this 3-day, Phase 2 training, COFI will teach you how to build a team of community residents, do one-on-one relationship building interviews, map a community (including an analysis of key assets), choose an issue campaign, and support leaders to win tangible victories in their communities, like those mentioned above. The training includes in-depth exploration of the second year of COFI's two-year organizing process and a community field trip. It is intended for people familiar with COFI's core organizing work.
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After-School Program Quality Workshop
The Illinois State Board of Education is hosting a summer workshop presented by SEDL. Participants will hear about concrete ideas for providing rich, engaging academic content, and learn how to evaluate their existing approaches. The workshop will be held in Naperville on Aug. 15 and 16 and in Springfield on Aug. 28 and 29.
For more information about the workshop and how to register, click here.
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