School Home Community Collaboration

CLMER's School-Home-Community Collaboration Institutes and related professional development and assistance services facilitate meaningful, cross-cultural collaborations among diverse parents, community members and educators. A key goal of our work in this area is to create a level playing field for collaboration among these groups in order to help children, families and communities reach their fullest academic and creative potential. Further, we engage in projects and services that involve out-of-school learning and other forms of community development, including the design and delivery of comprehensive health and social services, workforce development, community technology access and use, and other related community development opportunities. Please follow the links below to view highlighted projects and services.

Rural Willamette Valley Professional Development Project

Pacific Southwest Regional Technology in Education Consortium

CLMER 2-Way ARC: Supporting Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Programs

Education Walks

Evaluating 21st Century Community Learning Centers

Family-School-Community Collaboration Institutes

Family-School-Community Collaboration Institutes

We believe all students have the ability to achieve at high levels. In order to achieve this goal we must work together in a collaborative fashion and continually assess the performance of all educational stakeholders in the community. These stakeholders are comprised of teachers, parents, administrators and policymakers.

We also believe that change is a process that is evolutionary and must be implemented in progressive stages. We support the concept of an on-going sustained relationship that facilitates this evolutionary change process through the use of a coaching model. Through the use of a sustained an on-going coaching model, we can assist teachers and schools to improve instructional pedagogy, skills and strategies in the classroom, and thus be able to build capacity for the future, and improve student achievement.

It has been our experience that using a coaching model works best for schools and teachers. Our CLMER coaching model facilitates the on-going relationship needed between a teacher and a coach. It is non evaluative. The CLMER coaching model also develops the skills needed by the teacher to work with underachieving English Learners, and develops effective leadership.