Community Schools: Resources

General

• Stronger Together: How Community Schools Help Students, Families and Neighborhoods Thrive (2026)
• AFT American Educator Community School articles
• Building Community Schools eLearning Course (for AFT members only)
• Coalition for Community Schools
• AFT Community Schools brochure
• Community Schools Playbook | Partnership for Future Learning
• Is My School a Community School? A Checklist for Teachers and School Staff
• President Randi Weingarten’s keynote speech, AFT convention 2008
• Successful and Sustainable Community Schools: The Union as an Essential Ingredient (under revision)

Community Schools Case Studies

• Albuquerque, New Mexico (AFT, 2016)
• Baltimore, Maryland (AFT, 2018)
• Building Community with Community Schools - Rome, N.Y. (AFT American Educator, Summer 2021)
• Chicago, Illinois (AFT, 2021)
• Counting on Community Schools in New York's North Country - Massena Central School District (AFT American Educator, Summer 2021)
• Felicitas & Gonzalo Mendez High School: A Community School That Honors Its Neighborhood’s Legacy of Educational Justice (Learning Policy Institute, 2021)
• Minnesota - statewide story (AFT, 2021)
• St. Paul, Minnesota (AFT, 2016)

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 (National Center on Time & Learning)
• Federal policy (Coalition for Community Schools)

Positive Outcomes

• Coalition for Community Schools results page

Community School Principles

• Tool kits
• Center for American Progress reports
• Community Schools brochure
• Coalition for Community Schools: Networks

Family Engagement

• St. Paul Federation of Teachers "Good Morning America" segment

Expanded Learning Time

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