Thriving Together: Connecting Rural School Improvement and Community Development

Below is the full table of contents for Thriving Together: Connecting Rural School Improvement and Community Development. The introduction and the first chapter can be reviewed online. The full resource, including all chapters, can be purchased from the SEDL Catalog.

1. Introduction
	Outlines the purpose, audience, contents, and philosophy of the guide and gives the background on its development.
2. Why Bother?
	Explains the need for integrated school-community projects and their benefits, suggests ways of taking stock of your own local needs.
3. What It Takes
	Describes characteristics and resources important to success in joint school-community development efforts, helps you to informally assess your school and community’s readiness.
4. A Team Approach to Making Things Happen
	Gives a rationale and some how-to information for using a collaborative group process to organize your efforts.
5. The Nuts and Bolts of Integrated School Improvement-Community Development: The School as Community Center
	Describes three general ways that schools can serve as a community center: community education, after-hours programs, and school-linked services.
6. Nuts and Bolts: The Community as Curriculum
	Outlines strategies for community-based learning, particularly service learning, through which students learn skills and academic content while helping the community.
7. Nuts and Bolts: Work-Based Learning
	Provides ideas and information about work-based learning, particularly entrepreneurial education, in which students plan and start their own small business.
8. Concerns and Safeguards
	Describes some of the safety, security, and related issues that you will need to address and suggests some strategies.
9. Resources
	Lists materials and organizations and their websites that can help you in implementing your project.

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