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Beyond The School Walls: Collective Impact In Micropolitan School-Community Partnerships, Sarah Zuckerman
Beyond The School Walls: Collective Impact In Micropolitan School-Community Partnerships, Sarah Zuckerman
Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications
Research suggests that the time students spend outside of school, as well as the communities in which they spend it, impact educational outcomes. Inequitable educational outcomes are the result of complex, interdependent problems in the public and private sector, suggesting the need for approaches that bring together schools with other organizations to address problems in the ecological and developmental systems of family, school, out-of-school programs, and communities. Collective impact has gained prominence as a strategy for such cross-sector partnerships. This qualitative study uses a comparative approach to extend knowledge of collective impact into rural and micropolitan communities using civic capacity …