This activity is designed to help school and community leaders map out the ecosystem of supports for students at a school site. This can be a helpful exercise if you want to visually represent the complexity of partnerships. See the sample map to get an idea of what a finished map can look like.
Use this tool to think about possible meeting topics and structures that would best suit your partnership.
A memorandum of understanding (MOU or MoU) is a formal agreement between two or more parties. MOUs are not legally binding but they imply mutual obligation, and are preferable to informal agreements. Use this tip sheet to learn more about what to include in an MOU.
This tip sheet summarizes some basic data sources that can help community partners to research the strengths and challenges that students may face at their partner school. Many of the resources presented here can also help partners identify schools that might be a fit for the services they provide.
This is an example of how one might create a logic model based on a program’s theory of change, in the context of a school and community partnership.
This worksheet provides activities to help you create a logic model based on your program’s theory of change, in a school-community partnership context. Once your logic model has been created, you can begin to identify evaluation questions.