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Developing Student Responsibility, Action and Voice

Communities for Learning believes that students are a powerful and untapped resource and is dedicating time and funding during this 2010-2011 school year to helping students see how they can use their ideas, energy and voice to make a positive difference in their school community.

$2,000 can provide a student you know with a scholarship to the Communities for Learning Fellowship program, where he or she can explore what it means to be a student leader, how students can improve schools, and what it means to participate in a strategic action plan for improvement.

$5,000 will support 4 3-hour sessions with groups of 8-10 students, in a school of your choice.  During these sessions, students will propose and plan a student-led improvement project.

 $10,000 will support 4 3-hour sessions with students, plus 4 3-hour sessions for parents and school staff to help them understand how to best support student leadership efforts.

Building Strong Student-Parent-School Connections

Imagine a school where parents and students actively work together with teachers and administrators to help the school become the very best that it can possibly be.

Communities for Learning knows that successful school improvement efforts require the perspectives and experience of everyone involved with a school. Donations will strengthen these critical student-parent-school connections.

$2,500 provides a school with an introductory workshop on creating and supporting strong student-parent-school connections

$5,000 provides 4, 3-hour sessions with a school-based cross-role community in which participants will devise a plan to increase the connection among students, parents and the school. Specific schools can be recommended with donations.

$10,000 provides scholarships for a team of 4 (parent, student, teacher and administrator) to participate for one year as Fellows in the Communities for Learning Fellowship program where they will focus as a team on implementing a strategic action plan to strengthen the parent-student-school connection.

Honor a Special School or Teacher

Sometimes, a school or teacher profoundly affects us, and our lives are better for the experience. Communities for Learning honors and promotes the expertise and excellence that lies within schools and believes that this is an untapped source in the work of improving schools. Donations to this project will help to support those special teachers, administrators and schools that are at the heart of excellence in education.

$2500 supports a teacher you recommend for one year as a Fellow in the Communities for Learning Fellowship program, where he or she can work with other educators to explore and deepen their own expertise, and learn how to share it as a way of improving education.

$5,000 provides a school with 4, 3-hour sessions focused on helping that school recognize, mine and maximize the use of its internal expertise – and discover avenues for sharing that expertise to improve education. Recommendations for recipient schools may be made when donating.

$10,000 supports a school-based team of 4, enabling them to work together for one year as Fellows in the Communities for Learning Fellowship program where they will focus as a team on implementing a strategic action plan to strengthen the parent-student-school connection.

Student and Parent Scholarships

A 1-year Fellowship to the Communities for Learning Program

$2,000 per student

$2,500 per adult

Scholarship providers will be announced publicly and listed on our website.

Yearly Gifts

Friend - Gifts of up to $1,000

Sponsor - Gifts of $1,001 - $4,999

Visionary - Gifts of $5,000 and higher

Friends, Sponsors and Visionaries will be listed on the website and in all Communities for Learning publications

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