Capacity-Related Innovations Resulting From the Implementation of a Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement

New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice

“…Students with urgent developmental needs and/or "noncognitive barriers" to learning readiness (Farrington et al, 2012) have the most to lose with these walled-in improvement models, and schools with significant subpopulations of these students continue to struggle. Improvement models characterized as partnership models (e.g., H. A. Lawson, in press), community collaboration models (e.g., Anderson-Butcher et al, 2010), multiservice and extended service schools (Dyson & Todd, 2010), and community schools (H. A. Lawson, 2010a) provide alternatives to the dominant improvement model and offer promising opportunities for engagement research, intervention design, policy, and practice.…”

Teaching Macro Social Work through Experiential Learning: Student Reflections on Lessons Learned in Building School-Community Partnerships

“…Linking the project with faculty service and research provided seamless connections that enhanced community service, faculty research, and student learning simultaneously (Flinders, Nicholson, Carlascio, & Gilb, 2013). School-university partnerships seeking innovative solutions to complex problems may take years to develop as they achieve implementation milestones that add depth and capacity to services and program innovation (Anderson-Butcher et al, 2010). All three school districts remain actively involved with the school-university partnership work.…”

Action research to improve collaboration among Student Support Services teams

“…When collaborative efforts between professionals do not achieve the desired outcomes, the need for a better understanding of professional skills and behaviour required for collaborative practice becomes evident (Summers et al 2005). It has become increasingly clear that professional development opportunities are necessary to build these new skills among various school-based professionals working to build effective, sustainable collaborations (Anderson-Butcher et al 2010; Barr et al 2005).…”

“…Often, human service professionals are entrenched in professional cultures where there is a lack of organizational structure, leadership and strategy for collaboration, and possibly even dominance and antagonism between professionals (Anderson-Butcher et al 2010;Huzzard, Ahlberg, and Ekman 2010). While there are many benefits of interprofessional teaming, actualizing collaboration to improve student health and learning outcomes has proven far more difficult to achieve.…”