Community-to-School Directory

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Enrich your learning environment with community educators. Search the directory to find Arizona community-based organizations or businesses ready to partner with teachers and schools.

Community educators are youth-serving professionals and volunteers who provide capacity and insight in service of deepening and personalizing student learning. Next Education Workforce™ teams leverage community educators with additional knowledge and skills to complement the work of professional educators. Grounded in values of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, the Community-to-School Directory is designed to be a resource that improves outcomes for both learners and educators.

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Camp Cronkite at The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Camp Cronkite, our summer enrichment media camp, allows high school students to dive head-first into media right here at the Cronkite School. By day, Cronkite faculty, staff and student guides lead campers in hands-on learning in our state-of-the-art building on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus; then, campers retreat across the street to Gordon Commons, our residential hall, for supervised R&R.

Classroom visit Mentoring

9-12

Service cost Fingerprint clearance

Arizona Science Center

Arizona Science Center provides hands-on, inquiry-based science and STEM learning experiences for students at the Science Center as well as at their school. We travel to all 15 Arizona counties igniting curiosity and engaging learners of all ages to explore the world around them.

Assembly Classroom visit Field trip Guest judge Mentoring Unit planning

PKK-23-55-89-12

Service cost Fingerprint clearance Multilingual

ASU Prep

We provide more than 100 digital college prep courses with ASU Prep teacher support, licensed digital curriculum, teaching/coaching services, and college credit pathways for grades 6-12.

Classroom visit Guest judge Mentoring Tutoring Unit planning

5-89-12

Service cost Fingerprint clearance Multilingual

ASU TRIO Talent Search

Arizona State University and the Tolleson Union High School District have partnered to offer the ASU TRIO Talent Search program to Tolleson students and families. The program will provide academic support, university exposure and the tools and resources to empower students to graduate high school ready to enroll and succeed in college. For rising 8th-12th.

Assembly Classroom visit Field trip Mentoring Tutoring

9-12

Fingerprint clearance Multilingual

Challenge Island Chandler

My name is Stephanie Edwards and I am the owner of a STEAM education company called Challenge Island. At Challenge Island we are not just STEAM. Challenge Island is an internationally acclaimed enrichment program that provides Cross-Curricular STEAM experiences to kids ages 4 to 14+.Our program is dedicated to infusing 21st century learning skills in each of our lessons. Our lessons are structured to themes that kids know and love, the best part is they get to work collaboratively to solve challenges using a hands-on approach to learning.

Classroom visit Field trip Unit planning

PKK-23-55-8

Service cost Fingerprint clearance

Childsplay Theatre

At Childsplay, community educators are called Teaching Artists, professionals who combine their artistic expertise with educational best practices. Teaching Artists adapt to individual learning styles and classroom objectives, working in collaboration with educators to create a vibrant, interactive learning environment that complements traditional teaching methods.

Assembly Classroom visit Field trip Guest judge Unit planning

PKK-23-55-8

Service cost Fingerprint clearance

College Bound AZ

Our trained staff and volunteers provide classroom or one-on-one instruction on the steps to college and academic or life skill strategies to be successful in college and career. College Bound AZ, a nonprofit community resource, shares the journey to college with aspiring under-represented students through scholarships, mentoring, and support services for their advancement to a better future through education. For ages 14-24.

Field trip Guest judge Mentoring Unit planning

5-89-12

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Dysart Community Center

From its founding more than fifty years ago, Dysart Community Center has expanded its services to provide a variety of educational programs for thousands of West Valley residents in our local communities. Today we proudly serve our community with GED, High School Diploma, ESL, and citizenship courses for adults, before and after-school programs with transportation to certain local schools, and summer care for youth, Teen Programs, Chik-Fil-A Leadership Academy and access to various basic needs resources for families and individuals.

Assembly Classroom visit Mentoring Tutoring Unit planning

PKK-23-55-89-12

Service cost Multilingual

First Star ASU

Staff and Youth Coaches meet with scholars once a month to deliver college readiness, social-emotional workshops, and team-building activities for a whole day. Online tutoring is provided to scholars twice a week led by Youth Coaches. For rising 8th-12th.

Classroom visit Tutoring Unit planning

9-12

Multilingual

Girls on the Run serving Maricopa and Pinal Counties

Girls on the Run is a non-profit that offers afterschool programs for 3rd-8th grade girls. Our programs are designed to teach girls critical life skills while creatively integrating physical activity and movement. At the end of the season, each team completes a Community Impact Project and GOTR 5K together, which provides a tangible sense of accomplishment.

Assembly Mentoring

3-55-8

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An example search

Invite a member of your community to support your next math unit or mock trial.

Suggested keyword search: search for terms such as carpentry, math activities, tutoring, law or mock trial.

Search results: follow the link to visit the organization's website and find out how to connect and request services.

Frequently asked questions

Why is this important? What is the impact?

This is an open-access directory designed to support educators in exploring the rich Arizona landscape of community-based organizations and businesses that have teams of community educators trained and ready to provide youth-focused programming.
Community educators enrich learning environments by forging authentic relationships, sharing expertise and expanding networks.
Partnering with community organizations ready for authentic, sustainable partnerships can deepen learning opportunities for students.

What additional resources are available to connect with community educators?

Arizona has additional databases to connect educators with individuals who are ready to support students.

Educator Pro Connect: Connects educators statewide to industry professionals. Office of the Maricopa County School Superintendent Steve Watson.
CommunityShare: Is a human library that connects PK-12 educators with community partners.
Community educator resources: Find additional resources to connect with industry experts who are ready to support your learning environment.

I am an educator. How do I connect with an organization?

Follow the link provided on the organization profile to connect directly to the organization to coordinate planning or request more information.
If a link is broken or needs to be updated, please contact monique.reveles@asu.edu.

Are the organizations listed affiliated with Arizona State University?

Being included in the directory does not signify affiliation with Arizona State University or its affiliated partners.

How does an organization qualify to appear in the directory?

This directory only features organizations that:

Work with students and/or educators in Arizona classrooms
Have community educators who support teachers, students and administrators in schools
Have completed the directory application
Agree with the directory quality standards
Are open to sharing and assessing best practices

What are the Quality Standards for the Community-to-School Directory?

This directory has adopted quality standards established by the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS), a highly regarded national association, known as Voluntary Quality Standards. The Voluntary Quality Standards, by NPSS, are a framework for quality programming based on recommendations from professionals and educators to identify practices that create a safe, supportive and effective learning environment for students.

To understand how organization’s practices align with or strive towards these standards, organizations are asked to rate the degree to which their organization practice’s align (from ‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’) with standards in five core areas, including the recruitment of community educators, training, safety, youth development, and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

Are an organization's responses to the quality standards shared publicly?

No. If an organization wishes to highlight their alignment to these standards in the future we may visit this opportunity.

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