
Inside Full-Service Community Schools
Skyhorse Publishing
Published on 14. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-5107-3697-9 (ISBN)
Description
A step-by-step educator's guide to integrating health, community services, and academic achievement in schools.
Inside Full-Service Community Schools combines the on-site knowledge of school principal Sue Maguire, who has created a model full-service community school, with the deep experience and understanding of research-advocate Joy Dryfoos, who has tracked the development of these school transformation models across the country. The result is a highly practical, real-world guide with a unique local-national perspective. Topics include:
Getting started
Providing a range of services
Staffing: what works and what doesn't
Collaborating with the government and private sector
Involving parents
Overcoming barriers
Funding
Sustaining the school
In this groundbreaking work, experts Dryfoos and Maguire share both personal and comparative models, examining the full spectrum of community schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings. The book is ideal for reformers, administrators, and anyone interested in the future of education in America.
Inside Full-Service Community Schools combines the on-site knowledge of school principal Sue Maguire, who has created a model full-service community school, with the deep experience and understanding of research-advocate Joy Dryfoos, who has tracked the development of these school transformation models across the country. The result is a highly practical, real-world guide with a unique local-national perspective. Topics include:
Getting started
Providing a range of services
Staffing: what works and what doesn't
Collaborating with the government and private sector
Involving parents
Overcoming barriers
Funding
Sustaining the school
In this groundbreaking work, experts Dryfoos and Maguire share both personal and comparative models, examining the full spectrum of community schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings. The book is ideal for reformers, administrators, and anyone interested in the future of education in America.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5107-3697-9 (9781510736979)
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E-Book
06/2019
Sky Pony Press
€18.78
Available for download

Joy Dryfoos | Sue Maguire
Inside Full-Service Community Schools
E-Book
02/2019
Skyhorse Publishing
€12.85
Available for download
Persons
Joy Dryfoos is an independent consultant and writer. She is a founding member of the Coalition for Community Schools and a senior consultant to the Public Education Network's Schools and Community Initiative. She resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Sue Maguire has been an educator since 1977, a teacher for fifteen years, and an administrator for ten years. She is currently the principal at Molly Stark School in Bennington, Vermont, and is an adjunct instructor in graduate administration courses at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams. She resides in North Bennington, Vermont.
Sue Maguire has been an educator since 1977, a teacher for fifteen years, and an administrator for ten years. She is currently the principal at Molly Stark School in Bennington, Vermont, and is an adjunct instructor in graduate administration courses at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams. She resides in North Bennington, Vermont.