Wholesale Inside Full-Service Community Schools by Joy Dryfoos

[Skyhorse Publishing] A step-by-step educator's guide to integrating health, community services, and academic achievement in schools. Inside Full-Service Community Schools combines the on-site knowledge of school principal Sue Maguire, who has created a model full-service community school, with the deep experience and understanding of research-advocate Joy Dryfoos, who has tracked the development of these school transformation models across the country. The result is a highly practical, real-world guide with a unique local-national perspective. Topics include: - Getting started - Providing a range of services - Staffing: what works and what doesn't - Collaborating with the government and private sector - Involving parents - Overcoming barriers - Funding - Sustaining the school In this groundbreaking work, experts Dryfoos and Maguire share both personal and comparative models, examining the full spectrum of community schools in urban, suburban, and rural settings.