Call for all Nominations for the Cynthia Gayles Human Relations Grant are due by March 1st

Please let me know if any of you are interested in nominating a counselor for the Cynthia Gayles Grant through RMACAC. This Grant will pay for the recipient to attend the RMACAC Conference in Denver Colorado in April.

Please contact me Kristi Orchard at kristi.orchard@maeserprep.org or Sari Rauscher at sarirauscher@waterfordschool.org

Helpful Links for New Resources

We want to draw your attention to the following new report from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University; it stresses community organizing as a missing piece in education reform puzzle.

The report is entitled: The Strengths and Challenges of Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy: What the Research Says. The Executive Summary can be accessed at: http://www.annenberginstitute.org/PDF/NMEF_Summary.pdf

For those interested in an intervention perspective, our Center’s focus on school-community collaboration and the operational infrastructure for such collaboration is covered in several of our reports and resource guides. See, for example:

> School-Community Partnerships: A Guide –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/guides/schoolcomm.pdf

> School-Community Collaboration: A Self-study Survey –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/toolsforpractice/schoolcommunitysurvey.pdf

> Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/publications/44 guide 7 fostering school family and community involvement.pdf

> Community Schools: Working Toward Institutional Transformation –

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/csinstitutionaltrans.pdf

Also, see the Center’s Online Clearinghouse Quick Find on

> Collaboration - School, Community, Interagency – http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/qf/p1201_01.htm

USCA Winter Conference

USCA Winter Conference will be held on Feb. 4th from 8-4pm at the SLC Murray Center. Look forward to seeing you all there.