Check out this video we made with Alliance for Quality Education:
The following are links to organizations and sites that relate to the film.
Oakland Community Organization
Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition
Boston Parent Organizing Network
PICO National Network
People Improving Communities through Organizing – National
PICO California
People Improving Communities through Organizing – California
Annenberg Institute for School Reform
PEN – Public Education Network
RESEARCH:
Research materials that relate to the issues and ideas presented in A Community Concern.
Three reports from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform
- The Strengths and Challenges of Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy: What the Research Says
Research States Connection to Community Necessary to Sustain Results.
Summary, case study, findings
- Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition and Sistas and Brothas United
New school facilities and repairs relieved overcrowding and youth leaders collaborated with educators to open a new small high school with a youth leadership and community action model.
Summary, case study, findings
- Oakland Community Organizations
BUILDING A DISTRICT-WIDE SMALL SCHOOLS MOVEMENT
The creation of forty-eight new small schools fundamentally transformed the district landscape.
Summary, case study, findings
- Faith-based organizing for youth: One Organization’s District Campaign for Small Schools Policy by Ron Snyder, OCO Director (New Directions for Youth Development, No.117, Spring, 2008, www.interscience.wiley.com)
- Unraveling the DPS Budget:Toward Transparency and Equity through Weighted Student Funding: A Report by Metro Organizations for People (www.mopdenver.org)
- Youth Organizing is Organizing: Case Study of Sistas & Brothas United By Mary Dailey
