Useful Resources
A-Plus Communications
2200 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 1102, Arlington, VA 22201; Phone: 703-524-7325; Fax: 703-528-9692; Internet: www.apluscommunications.comBuilding Community Support for Schools: A Practical Guide to Strategic Communications, 1997.
Reporting Results: What the Public Wants to Know, with Education Week, January 1999.
"School Report Cards: How to Tell Your District’s Story and Tell It Well," American School Board Journal, May 1999.
"Building Public Support for Public Schools," Educational Leadership, October 1998.
"Public Engagement: Lessons from the Front," Educational Leadership, October 1998.
"Getting Inside the Public’s Head," Education Week, May 28, 1997.
"Engaging the Public," Adam Kernan-Schloss and Andy Plattner, 1996.
"Are We Expecting Too Much from Public Engagement?" Education Week, April 19, 1995.
Priority One: Schools That Work, for California Public Education Partnership, June 1996.
American Association of School Administrators
1801 North Moore Street, Arlington, VA 22209-9988; Phone: 703-528-0700; Fax: 703-841-1543; Internet: www.aasa.orgThe School Administrator, Vol. 53, Number 10, November, 1996.
How to Avoid Crossfire and Seek Common Ground, 1995.
How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support, 1994.
Working with the News Media, 1993.
Annenberg Institute For School Reform
Brown University, Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912; Phone: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; Internet: www.aisr.brown.eduFunded by the Annenberg Foundation and based at Brown University, this is an information and resource center for public engagement. The website provides listings and information for over 200 school and community public engagement initiatives. The site also provides comprehensive listings of print, video and web resources for many facets of public engagement, including parent involvement, civic and business involvement, standards-based reforms, and civic dialogue projects. An eighty-page report, Reasons for Hope, Voices for Change, features best practices from around the country.
Education Commission of the States
707 17th Street, Suite 2700, Denver CO 80202-3427; Phone: 303-299-3692; Fax: 303-296-8322; Internet: www.ecs.orgDo-It-Yourself Focus Groups: A Low-cost Way to Listen to Your Community, 1997.
So You have Standards.... Now What? 1997.
America’s Public Schools Must Change.... But Can They? 1997.
Let’s Talk About Education Improvement, 1996.
Listen, Discuss and Act: Parents’ and Teachers’ Views on Education Reform, 1996.
Jargon, 1995.
Politics, 1995.
How to Deal With Community Criticism of School Change, 1993.
What Communities Should Know and Be Able to Do About Education, 1993.
National Education Goals Panel
1850 M Street, NW, Suite 270, Washington, DC 20036; Phone: 202-632-0952; Internet: www.negp.govCommunity-Action Tool Kit, 1994
National School Boards Association
1680 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3493; Phone: 703-838-6722; Internet: www.nsba.orgBecoming a Better Board Member: A Guide to Effective School Board Service, 1996.
Raising the Bar: A School Board Primer on Student Achievement, 1998.
Reaching for Excellence: What Local School Districts are Doing to Raise Student Achievement, 1998.
National School Boards Foundation
1680 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3493; Phone: 703-838-6722; Fax: 703-549-6719; Internet: www.nsbf.orgEffective School Boards: Strategies for Improving Board Performance, (Jossey-Bass) 1999. The self-assessment tool from the book is also available at www.nsba.org/smoley.
Leadership Matters: Transforming Urban School Boards, March 1999.
National School Public Relations Association
15948 Derwood Road, Rockville, MD 20885; Phone: 301-519-0496; Fax: 301-519-0494; Internet: www.nspra.orgWin at the Polls, 1995.
The ABC Complete Book of School Surveys, 1992.
School Communication Workshop Kit, 1991.
Phi Delta Kappan International, Inc.
408 N. Union, P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402; Phone: 800-766-1156; Fax: 812-339-0018; Internet: www.pdkintl.org"Engaging the Public With Its Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, June 1997.
PACE (Polling Attitudes of Community on Education) products
Public Agenda
6 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016; Phone: 212-686-6610; Fax: 212-889-3461; Internet: www.publicagenda.orgGetting By: What American Teenagers Really Think About Their Schools, 1997.
Given the Circumstances: Teachers Talk About Public Education Today, 1996.
Assignment Incomplete: The Unfinished Business of Education Reform, 1995.
First Things First: What Americans Expect from the Public Schools, 1994.
The Broken Contract: Connecticut Citizens Look at Public Education, December 1994.
Divided Within, Besieged Without: The Politics of Education in Four American School Districts, 1993.
Study Circles Resource Center
P.O. Box 203, Pomfret, CT 06528; Phone: 860-928-2616; Fax: 869-928-3713Education: How Can Schools and Communities Work Together to Meet the Challenge? 1995.
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