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

ALLO Fiber

The best thing about ALLO is not just our crazy-fast internet, crystal-clear TV, and dependable phone service. It's also our community heart.

Classroom visit Field trip

5-89-12

Multilingual

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

Children's Museum of Yuma County

We offer field trips, birthday parties, and event space rentals in addition. Our floor staff are able to help inspire and coordinate playful learning.

Field trip

PKK-2

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

Fingerprint clearance

Colorado River State Historic Park

The Colorado River State Historic Park tells the story of the past, present, and future of the Colorado River and its role in the settlement and development of both Yuma and the larger Southwest.
The Colorado River State Historic Park offers a variety of interpretive education programs for students of all ages, covering topics of both cultural and natural history.

Classroom visit Field trip

K-23-5

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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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