Harvard Education PR Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity: A Practical Guide for School and Community Leaders

Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity provides a how-to guide for education, government, and community leaders interested in creating cross-sector systems of support for students. These collaborations strive to close achievement and opportunity gaps and to help children overcome problems stemming from poverty, racism, and other societal ills. Based on a framework developed at Harvard's By All Means Initiative, Paul Reville and Lynne Sacks walk readers through the process of jump-starting a successful collaboration between school, government, and community leaders. The authors describe how to form a local Children's Cabinet to lead the effort, identify goals and strategies, and ensure the long-term sustainability of the collaboration. In addition to a clear sequential set of implementation steps, Reville and Sacks provide field-tested tools, examples of communities that have undertaken this work, and specific strategies and guidance gleaned from their collaborations with more than thirty communities across the country.Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity highlights the roles that school and municipal leaders play in creating comprehensive systems of support and opportunity for all children in a community. From the Back Cover Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity provides a how-to guide for education, government, and community leaders interested in creating cross-sector systems of support for students. These collaborations strive to close achievement and opportunity gaps and help children overcome problems stemming from poverty, racism, and other societal ills. Based on a framework developed at Harvard's By All Means Initiative, the book walks readers through the process of jump-starting a successful collaboration between school, government, and community leaders. Paul Reville and Lynne Sacks describe how to form a local Children's Cabinet to lead the effort, identify goals and strategies, and ensure the long-term sustainability of the collaboration. "Cross-sector collaborations and collective impact initiatives have been adopted by hundreds of cities, towns, and counties across the country. This wise guide provides experience-based insights and practical tools on how to put theory into action to meet the challenge of actually providing meaningful educational opportunities to all of our children." --Michael A. Rebell, executive director, Center for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University "Clear. Concise. Compelling. Courageous. Reville and Sacks deliver an incredibly powerful argument for why Children's Cabinets are the only logical response to the incredible challenges at hand." --Karen Pittman, cofounder and senior fellow, The Forum for Youth Investment Paul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab. Lynne Sacks is the research director at the Education Redesign Lab and a lecturer at HGSE. About the Author Paul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab. Lynne Sacks is the research director at the Education Redesign Lab and a lecturer at HGSE.