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Building Bridges For Early Learning Birth to School

Our children are our future. We hear this message time and again, but it truly hits home for parents, grandparents, and those who spend time with small children. For those of us who have small children, their welfare is an issue of obvious importance. However, the readiness of children – and more specifically, their ability to be successful in school when it is time to enter kindergarten – is a public issue that affects all of us.

Author: Arkansas Study Circles Project

Contributed by: Myriah Pahl

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Building Partnerships with Schools and Families

Partnerships between schools and families can make all the difference in a child’s educational success. This has been shown over and over in research during the past thirty years. When educators and families support each other at home and at school, children from all backgrounds will achieve more and schools will perform better.

Author: Arkansas Study Circles Project

Contributed by: Myriah Pahl

Tags: education | family | zdqltgiohprquh

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Building Strong Neighborhoods: A Study Guide for Public Dialogue and Community Problem Solving

A four-session discussion guide on many important neighborhood issues including: race and other kinds of differences; young people and families; safety and community-police relations; homes, housing and beautification; jobs and neighborhood economy; and schools.

Author: Everyday Democracy (formerly the Study Circles Resource Center)

Tags: crime | education | neighborhoods | youth

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Closer to the Truth Project Facilitation and Dialogue Guide

This Guide was produced by Active Voice in collaboration with the Andrus Family Fund, Longnook Pictures, the International Center for Transitional Justice and other experts in racial justice and dialogue facilitation. It accompanies the film Greensboro: Closer to the Truth, by Adam Zucker, and offers historical context, customizable discussion questions, suggested group activities, facilitation tips, and resources to explore sustainable community reconciliation.

Author: Active Voice

Contributed by: Sahar Driver

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Cómo ayudar a tener éxito a todos los estudiantes.

Spanish-language edition of "Helping Every Student Succeed."

Author: Everyday Democracy

Tags: education | spanish | student achievement

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Education: How can Schools and Communities Work Together to Meet the Challenge?

A multiple-session discussion guide including recommendations for tailoring the discussion to a particular community or organization's concerns

Author: Everyday Democracy

Tags: education | education goals | school safety

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Growing Together: Uniting Kendall-Whittier (English Version)

This guide was written for Kendall-Whittier Growing Together, a program that is helping the residents of this Tulsa, OK neighborhood plan for the educational and economic success of their children. One key goal of the guide is to help participants decide what kinds of data they want to gather about their neighborhood, using the framework of the federal Promise Neighborhoods initiative. K-W Growing Together was the recipient of a 2011 Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant.

Author: Diane Eason Contreras and Matt Leighninger

Contributed by: Rebecca Reyes

Tags: education | neighborhood | nzndxyjhm

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Growing Together: Uniting Kendall-Whittier (Spanish Version)

This guide was written for Kendall-Whittier Growing Together, a program that is helping the residents of this Tulsa, OK neighborhood plan for the educational and economic success of their children. One key goal of the guide is to help participants decide what kinds of data they want to gather about their neighborhood, using the framework of the federal Promise Neighborhoods initiative. K-W Growing Together was the recipient of a 2011 Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant.

Author: Diane Eason Contreras and Matt Leighninger, translation by Judith Diaz

Contributed by: Rebecca Reyes

Tags: education | neighborhood

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Harwood Union High School Study Circles

This three session guide begins with an adaptation of session 1 from EDD's "Helping All Students Succeed." The second session features a report card to foster discussion about the school's performance in a variety of areas, and the third session pairs moving to action with asset identification

Author: Susan McCormack w/Harwood Union HS Study Circles steering committee

Contributed by: Susan McCormack

Tags: education

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Helping Every Student Succeed: Schools and Communities Working Together

A four-session discussion guide to help schools and communities improve academic achievement for all students.

Author: Everyday Democracy

Tags: achievement gap | education | student achievement

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Learning Beyond the School Day

This discussion guide takes a look at when, where, and what young people learn. How do we create the kind of community where all young people will have a chance to learn – in and beyond the school day?

Author: Arkansas Study Circles Project

Contributed by: Diane Vibhakar

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Parent involvement in education

This guide was reworked for Lexington, NE community from the Arkansas School Board Association's guide, also posted on this site.

Author: Jerry Bergstrom

Contributed by: Myriah Pahl

Tags: education | education goals | family | parent involvement

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Parent involvement in education (Spanish version)

This is the spanish language version of the guide, by the same title. It is a re-worked version of the Arkansas School Board Association's guide.

Author: Jerry Bergstrom

Contributed by: Myriah Pahl

Tags: education | education goals | family | spanish | vhneremzuguuhrvxqa

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Religion and Public Life

This is a working draft. LaGuardia’s Difficult Dialogues on Religious Diversity project is designed to: 1) help faculty staff, students and members of the community learn more about our religiously diverse community 2) strengthen our ability to discuss and explore religious differences on campus and in the community 3) identify actions we can take to make the College, our community and the nation a place where people of all faith perspectives and beliefs are welcome and respected

Author: Rosemary Talmadge (LaGuardia Community College)

Contributed by: Myriah Pahl

Tags: democracy | education | multicultural communities | religion

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Slavery or "Freedom Forever": What's at Stake in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

In 1854 President Franklin Pierce faced a critical choice. Should he support the Kansas-Nebraska proposal, which gave local settlers the right to determine whether or not slavery would be permitted? Should he maintain the Missouri Compromise, which banned slavery in these territories? Or, since any decision would impact the economy, should practical considerations overrule moral rhetoric?

Author: Douglas Ley (New England Center for Civic Life)

Contributed by: joni doherty

Tags: education | history | race

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Too Many Children Left Behind

This is adapted from the Kettering Foundation guide and is specific to Central Texas.

Author: Taylor Willingham

Contributed by: Taylor Willingham

Tags: achievement gap | education | texasforums

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Too Many Children Left Behind: How Can We Close the Achievement Gap?

[ Abridged version ] In a nation that prides itself on providing equal opportunity for all, too many low-income and minority children are falling behind their peers in school. In an increasingly competitive global arena, the United States cannot afford to ignore this widening achievement gap. What can be done to close it?

Author: National Issues Forums Institute

Contributed by: Patty Dineen

Tags: achievement gap | education | education goals | nif

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Working Together to Remove Racial and Ethnic Barriers to Student Achievement: A Facilitator's Guide

• Build lasting relationships among diverse stakeholders • Engage participants to discuss racial issues • Work with parents, teachers and students to develop action plans that will address racial and ethnic barriers to student achievement and parent involvement

Author: John Landesman, Ruby Rubens, and Catherine Orland with Miriam Carter, Mark Clark, Sandra Coles Bell, Judy Jourdain-Earl, Patricia Lee, Eeshan Melder,Michael Pauls, Ottoniel Perez, Paula Puglisi, Jane Smith, and Carolyn Vasques Scalera

Contributed by: Terri Evans

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