The Center For School Study Councils - Projects

Public leadership is an essential component of the superintendency. This leadership goes beyond traditional public relations and beyond making district policies and practices transparent to parents of children in schools. Given the essential role of parents in the education of the children, parents must be engaged as partners, as co-producers of the educational program.

But the demands of public leadership extend beyond parents to the community as a whole. Community residents must be included in the partnership. Those residents vote on school board members, pay taxes to support the educational program and can add important human and social capital resources in support of educational process.

The Study Council staff works with affiliated school districts and other organizations to develop and implement a process through which schools can work with their communities to identify and address key challenges they face together.

Projects

Civic Engagement for Penn's Landing 
Civic Engagement for 40th Street 
Project 540 - National High School Civic Engagement Initiative 
Philadelphia Schools 
National Summit on School Design