General

• Community Schools Playbook | Partnership for Future Learning(link is external)
• Successful and Sustainable Community Schools: The Union as an Essential Ingredient
• Is My School a Community School? A Checklist for Teachers and School Staff
• Community Schools: Case studies of what works | Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Community Schools: Case studies of what works | St. Paul, Minnesota
• AFT Community Schools brochure
• President Randi Weingarten’s keynote speech, AFT convention 2008
• Coalition for Community Schools(link is external)

Policy and Collective Bargaining

• “Surrounded by Support: Partnerships between communities and schools connect students with the services they need”  (American Educator, Summer 2009)
• Community schools coalition action plan (AFT news)
• Expanded learning time policy(link is external) (National Center on Time & Learning)
• Federal policy(link is external) (Coalition for Community Schools)

Positive Outcomes

• Coalition for Community Schools results page(link is external)
  • Tool kits(link is external)
  • Needs assessment(link is external)
• Center for American Progress reports(link is external)

Community School Principles

• Community Schools brochure
• Coalition for Community Schools: partners and participants(link is external)
• Coalition for Community Schools toolkit(link is external)

Family Engagement

St. Paul (Minn.) Federation of Teachers home visiting project evaluation(link is external)

St. Paul Federation of Teachers “Good Morning America” segment(link is external)

Expanded Learning Time

• AFT: It’s About Time
• National Center for Time and Learning(link is external)
• Center for American Progress Reports
  • All Hands on Deck!(link is external)
  • Expanded Learning Time in High Schools(link is external)
  • Expanded Learning Time in Action(link is external)
  • Expanded Learning Time by the Numbers