Resources for expanded learning professionals

By Latima Charbonneau

This paper outlines a vision for a “partnership ecosystem” that unites school-based service providers into a seamless web of supports for students. Here we describe the rationale for school-communi...

By Latima Charbonneau

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 ...

By Latima Charbonneau

This tip sheet compiles tips and questions for both a school site and a partner organization to consider for their initial meeting.  Use the questions provided here to prepare for a productive conv...

By Latima Charbonneau

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 agreement...

By Latima Charbonneau

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 pre...

By Latima Charbonneau

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.