A Humphrey Institute summer course (PA 5490)

July 7- 11, 2008 

8:00 AM - 3:30 P.M 

3 credits

This course will help participants expand and improve productive relationships between schools, families and the broader community.  It is designed for k-12 educators, community advocates, businesspeople and parents.  The class will review research, talk with community resource people, and take a field trip. The class also will discuss ways young people, K-12, can combine classroom work and community service to improve academic skills, and develop better attitudes toward themselves and the possibility of making a difference in the world. 

Instead of a final examination, each course participant will develop a plan for increasing collaboration between a school and another group - families, an agency or business. This course has been praised by previous participants as "very positive, practical, very useful, and a fun, productive week."

Instructor Joe Nathan, PhD and Director, Center for School Change, Humphrey Institute. For a draft syllabus, write Nathan: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

For registration and cost information, contact Stacey Grimes at the Humphrey Institute: 612 626-1329, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   (Costs vary depending on whether students want graduate or undergraduate credit).

POSSIBLE RESOURCES
Parent/Educator/Senior Citizens


Amer. Assoc. of Retired Persons/Elvirita Lewis Foundation, Growing Together Intergenerational Sourcebook from AARP, 1909 K Street, Wash, D.C., 20049
Center for Law and Education, 1875 Connecticut Ave. N.W, Suite 510, Washington, D.C. 20009, Beyond the Bake Sale: An Educator's Guide to Working with Parents: A Workbook on Parent Involvement for District Leaders, Annual Education Checkup, etc. etc
Curran, Delores Traits of a Healthy Family San Francisco: Harper/Collins
Developmental Studies Center At Home in Our Schools, Oakland, www.devstu.org
2000 Embarcadero, Suite 305, Oakland Ca 94606, $14.95) many good resources. 800 666-7270
Epstein, Joyce, various materials from Center on School, Family and Community Partnership, 3003 N. Charles, Suite 200 Baltimore, Maryland 21218, www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000
Epstein, Joyce, et al, School, Family and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Thousand Oaks, Cal: Corwin Press, 2002 www.corwinpress.com
Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine, How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk, New York: Avon Books, also, How to Teach so Kids will Learn
Henderson, Anne and Mapp, Karen L, A New Wave of Evidence Impact of School,Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement, Southwest Educational Development Lab, 2002, www.sedl.org/connections
Ladson-Billings, Gloria, The Dreamkeepers, SF: Jossey Bass
Home and School Institute, 1201 16th St, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 466-3633
Illinois Intergenerational Initiative, Anthony Hall ll0, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois 6290l Excellent free newsletter
Rich, Dorothy, Megaskills, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003
Rioux, Bill and Berla, Nancy, Innovations in Parent and Family Involvement, Princeton Junction, New Jersey: Eye on Education, 1993
Susan McAllister, Developing Home-School Partnerships, NY: Teachers College Press
Governance and Decision-making – Creating Effective Governing Boards www.uscharterschools.org/gb/governance/contents.htm

www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000
www.sedl.org/pubs/free_community.html



Communicates & listens, fosters table time and conversation, affirms and supports one another, teaches respect for others, develops a sense of trust, has a sense of play and humor, has balance of interaction among members, shares leisure time, exhibits a sense of shared responsibility, teaches a sense of right and wrong, has a strong sense of family in which rituals and traditions abound, has a shared religious core, respects the privacy of one another, values service to others, admits to and seeks help with problems. (From Delores Curran)

Youth/Community Service Resources

American Youth Policy Forum, Some Things Do Make a Difference for Youth, Washington: AYPF, 1001 Connecticut Av. N.W., Suite 719 Washington, D.C. 20036, also, More things that Do Make A Difference, Whatever It Takes, How Twelve Communities are Reconnecting Out of School Youth, Common Ground: Service Learning and Education Reform, www.aypf.org
Burkett, Elinor, Another Planet New York: Harper and Row, 2001
Cerf, Christopher and Navasky, Victor, The Experts Speak, New York: Pantheon, 1999
Center for School Change, Schools and Communities, Working Together, many projects, forms, ideas, www.centerforschoolchange.org (publications area)
Edvisions - Minnesota New Country School - www.edvisions.coop - award winning charter school, project & place based education.
Every Child a Winner,PO Box 141, Ocilla, Georgia 31774 (912) 46 8-7098
Expeditionary Learning/Outward Bound - www.elob.org
Foxfire, PO Box 541, Mountain City, Georgia 30562
Gibbons, Maurice, The Self-Directed learning Handbook, San Francisco: Jossey Bass 2002
Hoose, Phillip, We Were There Too, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001 Institute for Political & Legal Education, c/o
Intrator, Sam and Scribner, Megan, Teaching with Fire, SF: Jossey Bass, 2003
Jennings, Wayne, "Brain-Based Education Newsletter," 449 Desnoyer, St. Paul, Mn.,
Lauren, Jill, Succeeding with LD, Mpls: Free Spirit (800) 735-3273
Kohl, Herbert R., Making Theater, New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1988
Ladson Billings, Gloria, The Dreamkeepers, San Francisco: Jossey Bass
Lewis, Barbara, A Kids Guide to Social Change, Minneapolis: Free Spirit, 1998
National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC.org) many publications, training workshops
North Carolina REAL Enterprises, 658 B Old Lystra Rd., Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Parsons, Cynthia, Service Learning from A to Z, Vermont Schoolhouse Press, PO Box 516, Chester, Vt. 05143
Richmond, George, The Micro Society School, New York: Harper & Row
Rogovin, Mark, Burton, Marie and Highfill, Holly, Mural Manual, Boston: Beacon Press,
Stern, David, Stone, James, Hopkins, Charles, McMillion, Martin and Crain, Robert, School Based Enterprise, San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1994.
Tree Trust, "Environmental Service-Learning," 612 920-9326
Wigginton, Eliot, Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience, New York: Doubleday, 1985 - classic book

www.whatkidscando.org - great website with many examples, often written by students
www.aypf.org/publications/compendium/index.html
www.elob.org - New American Schools design that includes project/service learning
www.takingitglobal.org
www.nylc.org - organization that has been working in this field for many years
www.edvisions.coop - award winning charter that includes project/service learning
www.ruraledu.org: Rural School and Community Trust, many ideas re place based education & other issues
www.centerforschoolchange.org: See "Schools and Communications: Working Together"
www.ed.gov/free - Many, many curriculum ideas, free materials for kids

Powerful learning principles (from Wigginton)

Times when work has an audience beyond the teacher
Times when students learn outside the building
Times when students are helping someone else
Times when students are working on something they help guide Times when students are working on something they identify as important



If you find other especially useful resources, please let the CSC know. Thanks!
Joe Nathan, Center for School Change, Humphrey Institute, 30l l9th Av. S. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Mn. USA 55455 (612) 626-1834, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it