What is a Community-School Partnership?

A community-school partnership is a fundamental requirement for service-learning projects to be mutually beneficial for students who provide services and community members or organizations who receives services. (2)

Community-School Partnerships Levels

Networking

Coordination

Cooperation

Collaboration(3)

Service-Learning Partnerships abilities:

  • Accomplish work together that would be difficult or impossible to accomplish alone;
  • Build a shared sense of commitment and responsibility throughout the community;
  • Ensure that everyone who is touched be the service is represented in the leadership, planning, and implementation;
  • Avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts among agencies;
  • Offer opportunities for people to learn from other and share resources;
  • Contribute to rebuilding healthy, caring communities (2)

Amber Shaddock

Krystina Southern

Heather Marshall

Christina Williams

Dr. Regina Ryel Thomason

M-W 10:00

Arkansas History Brochures

4th Grade

Elmdale Elementary

Springdale, AR

Coppus, S.A. (2008). Community-school partnerships. Research Starters-Education, 1-13.

Our Goal

Our goal in this project is to assist Mrs. Lisa Casey at Elmdale Elementary School in Springdale, AR with an Arkansas history project. This project would include grouping students to complete a brochure on the different regions of the state andpossibly making and donating a wall-size Arkansas map with information about the different regions.

Course Outcomes

•Examine our beliefs about teaching and student learning.

•Extend our understanding of self as a learner and future teacher.

•Review practical issues related to the teaching profession.

•Integrate our knowledge of self and students to the context of the school.

•Broaden our understanding of the role of schools in our society.

•To gain classroom management knowledge.

NWACC Outcomes

•Students will learn how to locate, evaluate, and use the information they have found.

•Students will learn the importance of communication, and develop those skills.

•Students will develop “soft skills” important to their success in life, they will also learn how to interact with others in a professional manner.

DAY 1

We had a meeting with Mrs. Lisa Casey at Elmdale Elementary to discuss what she wanted us to teach her students in Arkansas History.

DAY 2

Our group met with the students and discussed with them what a brochure was and why it was useful. We then divided them into different groups. They were assigned different regions of Arkansas: the Ozarks, River Valley, Central, Ouachita, Delta, and the Timberlands.

DAY 3

On day three our groups got to work,students started researching their region, and had to find information on attractions, industry, natural resources, and a fun fact.

DAY 4

The students looked for pictures to go on their brochure.

DAY 5

The students started assembling their brochures. This was their favorite part!

DAY 6

The students put the final touches on their projects. They were glad to finally be done, but they had a great time learning about the different regions of Arkansas!

RESOURCES

•Text Book

•Arkansas Department of Travel

•Information

•Internet

•Magazines

•Digital camera

•Microsoft word

•Microsoft power point

Thank You

Mrs. Casey & her students

Elmdale Elementary

Dr. Ryel Thomason

Dianne Phillips, EAST/ EMPACTS Facilitator