Benchmark Assignment: Community Resources Alignment Project
EDUC 742
School-Community Needs Assessment Instructions
The School-Community Needs Assessment is the second part of the Benchmark Assignment: Community Resources Alignment Project.
The assignment is divided into four parts for submission. All four parts will be submitted through SafeAssign in Blackboard in the appropriate modules/weeks. You will also submit the School-Community Needs Assessment with the other components of this assignment in Module/Week 8 through LiveText.
In this assignment, you will determine the needs of the local school and its community, then report those findings. You must collaborate with individuals related to the school and school district and interview a community leader. Following are the explanations of those parts:
1. Collaboration: Collaborate with the parent-teacher organization, school administration, and student government to identify at least four perceived needs for both the school and community that could possibly be met by school-community partnerships. These needs may be academic, social, or financial. (It is acceptable to build upon a recent existing needs assessment if one is available.) Describe the collaboration process and identify several needs for both the school and the community.
2. Interview: Interview a community leader about his or her perceptions of community and school needs, and how the two entities might collaborate to meet at least four needs. The interviewee may be a school board member, city council member, school superintendent, assistant superintendent, state legislator, lobbyist, president of the chamber of commerce, sheriff, chief of police, etc. Summarize the interview, analyzing the ideas presented.
This assignment is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 6.