Book your hotel reservation before it's too late!
We've reached our room block capacity at the San Francisco Marriott and the Hotel Monaco and have secured an additional room block at the Parc 55 WYNDHAM in Union Square. Click here or call 1-800-697-3103 and request the Community Schools National Forum Overflow room block to ensure you receive the conference rate!
PARC 55 WYNDHAM San Francisco-Union Square
55 Cyril Magnin Street | Market at Fifth| San Francisco | CA| 94102
www.parc55hotel.com
The time is now for Community Schools. Check out our new video for the 2012 National Forum May 9-12 in San Francisco and you'll see why!
This May 9-12, 2012, the Coalition for Community Schools joins California community school leaders and advocates to convene a diverse group of stakeholders committed to better results for young people across the nation. The 2012 National Forum will engage a broad audience of policymakers, administrators and practitioners who want to learn how to put together school and community assets to support student success.
This year’s theme, Scaling up School and Community Partnerships: The Community Schools Strategy reflects the Coalition’s new guide.We want participants to learn from schools and communities that are planning, or are in the midst of scale up, as well as those who are at scale and working to deepen their efforts and improve effectiveness.This conference will enable participants to gain the knowledge and skills to create, sustain, and scale up community schools through workshop sessions and networking with other professionals in similar fields of work.
FORUM PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTSSite Visits: Local community school leaders are planning a series of visits to community schools across the Bay area so participants can see what is happening in urban and suburban communities.PreConference Institutes will offer in-depth learning opportunities focusing on such topics as: Scaling Up Community Schools, the Community School Coordinators Network, Community Schools 101, Principal Leadership in Community Schools, Literacy and Civic Engagement, Grade Level Reading Campaign, and the Challenges Facing Boys and Men of Color.Plenaries will include topics such as the changing economy and demographics and the implications for community schools; early childhood and reading on grade level; a conversation with community school Superintendents, and more!. Young people will kick off the conference and speak about how community schools are meeting their needs and creating new opportunities for learning.MiniPlenaries and Workshops will address topics such as: chronic early absence, linkages between early childhood and community schools, family engagement, engaged learning, place-based initiatives, higher education, summer learning, community schools financing and policy, and much more!
