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School/Community Partnerships: Selected Resources
 Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, February 2006.

Our bibliographies strive to provide the most useful resources on a topic, with links to online full text items and downloadable PDFs when those are available. Library items may be borrowed from the Clearinghouse by Learn and Serve America grantees and subgrantees.

For additional resource lists on these and other service-learning topics visit the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Website at http://www.servicelearning.org.
 
Online Resources
 Abravanel, Susan A. “Building Community Through Service-Learning: The Role of the Community Partner.” ECS Issue Paper. Denver: Education Commission of the States, 2003.
<http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/44/03/4403.pdf>

Ammon, Mary Sue, Andrew Furco, Bernadette Chi, and Ellen Middaugh. Service-Learning in California: A Profile of the CalServe Service-Learning Partnerships (1997-2000). Sacramento: CalServe, 2003.
<http://servicelearning.org/filemanager/download/55/Chap2-1.pdf>

Brown, Danika. Pulling it Together: A Method for Developing Service-Learning and Community Partnerships Based in Critical Pedagogy. Washington, DC: Corporation for National Service, 2001.
<http://nationalserviceresources.org/files/legacy/filemanager/download/720/brown.pdf>

Bruner, Charles. Thinking Collaboratively: Ten Questions and Answers to Help Policy Makers Improve Children's Services. Washington, DC: Education And Human Services Consortium, 1991. <http://www.cyfernet.org/research/thinkco.html>

Center for Mental Health in Schools. Working Together: From School-Based Collaborative Teams to School-Community-Higher Education Connections. Los Angeles: UCLA, 1997.
<http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/worktogether/worktogether.pdf>

Ellis, Debbie, and Kendra Hughes. Partnerships by Design: Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships. Portland, OR: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 2002.
<http://www.nwrel.org/partnerships/pubs/bydesign.html>

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Partnerships Hot Topic. Scotts Valley, CA: NSLC, n.d. <http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/hot_topics/partnerships/index.php>

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Partnerships Links. Scotts Valley, CA: NSLC, n.d.
<http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/links_collection/index.php?
link_set_id=1&category_id=235
>

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. School/Community Partnerships Literature Overview. Scotts Valley, CA: NSLC, 2003.
<http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/bibs/k-12_bibs/school_cmty/index.php>

Points of Light Foundation. Building Effective Partnerships in Service-Learning. NSLC Fact Sheet. Scotts Valley, CA: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2002. <http://servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/k-12_facts/partnerships/index.php>
  
Print Resources
 Bauch, P. “School-Community Partnerships in Rural Schools: Leadership, Renewal, and a Sense of Place.” Peabody Journal of Education 76, no. 2, (2001): 204-21.

Batenburg, Mark P. Community Agency and School Collaboration: Going in with Your Eyes Open. Paper, annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April 18-22, 1995.

Cairn, Rich, and Cynthia Scherer. Agencies Plus Schools Equals Service-Learning: A Training Toolbox. Washington, DC: Points of Light Foundation, 1994.

Cairn, Rich, and Susan Cairn. Collaborators: Schools and Communities Working Together for Youth Service. St. Paul, MN: National Youth Leadership Council, 1990.

Gretz, P. “School and Community Partnerships: Cultivating Friends.” Principal Leadership (High School Ed.) 3, no. 5 (January 2003): 32-4.

Gulati-Partee, Gita, and William R. Finger, eds. Critical Issues in K-12 Service Learning: Case Studies and Reflections. Alexandria, VA: National Society for Experiential Education, 1996.

Hiatt-Michael, Diana B. Promising Practices to Connect Schools With the Community. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2001.

Kraft, N. “Building Collaborations to Support Service-Learning.” In Building Support for Service-Learning, 67-88, edited by Shelley H. Billig. Denver: RMC Research Corporation, 1998.

Levine, Carole. “School-Community Partnerships: A Lasting Collaboration Is More Than a Two-Step Dance.” School Administrator Web Edition (June 1998). < http://www.aasa.org/publications/saarticledetail.cfm?ItemNumber=4452&snItemNumber=950
&tnItemNumber=951
>

Loosli, Saren. Building Effective Partnerships. Wellesley, MA: National Institute on Out-of-School Time, 1999.

Lyday, W. Jackson, and Larry Winecoff. Connecting Communities Through Service Learning. Clemson, SC: National Dropout Prevention Center, 1998.

Mattessich, Paul, Marta Murray-Close, and Barbara Monsey. Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 2nd Edition. St. Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 2001.

National Collaboration for Youth. The New Community Collaboration Manual. Washington, DC: The National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations, 1997.

Pardini, P. “School-Community Partnering.” School Administrator 58, no. 7, (August 2001): 6-11.

Pitkofsky, Jim. Creating and Managing Partnerships for Service Learning Integration: a Guide for Service Learning Coordinators. Alexandria, VA: National Association of Partners in Education, 1994.

Rigsby, Leo C., and Maynard C. Reynolds. School Community Connections: Exploring Issues for Research and Practice. Indianapolis: Jossey-Bass, 1995.

Roehlkepartain, Eugene. Everyone Wins When Youth Serve: Building Agency School Partnerships for Service Learning. Washington, DC: Points of Light Foundation, 1995.

Roehlkepartain , Eugene. Practical Guide for Developing Agency / School Partnerships for Service Learning. Washington, DC: Points of Light Foundation, 1995.

Rubin, Hank. Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective Partnerships in Communities and Schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2002.

Winer, Michael, and Karen Ray. Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey. St. Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1994.
  
Websites
 Center for Community Partnerships
www.upenn.edu/ccp/

Coalition for Community Schools
www.communityschools.org

HUD, Office of University Partnerships
www.oup.org

Rural School and Community Trust
www.ruraledu.org
  
 

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