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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Cristina's Closet

We help people get ready for employment. We offer classes about interviewing, planning for the future, finances, and soft skills.
For more information contact: Cristina McInnes (928) 390-0613

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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.

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Exceptional Community Hospital

Exceptional Community Hospital is a 24 hour Emergency Hospital. We are proud to be a part of this Community and dedicated to offering an option in Excellent healthcare. Our efforts in Community outreach is a top priority. We offer tours to all level of learners, encouraging and opening eyes and possible windows to our youth.
For more information contact: Lisa Brazeel (928) 246-7832

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PKK-23-55-89-12

Finding Peace Consulting

We help Educators understand how trauma affects learning and what can be done about it. We can provide professional development services or present to students. For grades 6th-8th.
For more information contact: Troy Love (928) 287-3621

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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

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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.

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Greater Yuma Economic Development Corporation

Greater Yuma Economic Development Corporation is an Investor Funded, not-for-profit organization, governed by an 20 member board of directors comprising both private and public sector Investors. Greater Yuma EDC’s mission is to expand economic activity within Yuma County by attracting commerce and industry to the region, and to assist in developing the region’s existing industry to its fullest potential. We are interested in connecting schools with resources.
For more information contact: Amber Shek (910) 330-7087

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Inspirato Education

We provide experiential STEAM & Cultural Education Programs for Pre-K to 8th grade students, TEAMwork programs for grades 4-12, and STEAMwork programs for grades 4-8, and TEAMwork and Inspirational Training & Professional Development for staff, educators, & administrators. We believe in the importance of consciously designing curriculum that incorporates culture, tradition, travel, history, and diversity coupled with STEAM educational principles in order to design rich, unique, culturally diverse, disguised educational experiences that are not only fun, but impactful and memorable. Care has been placed to create programs that educate, build relationships, develop leadership skills, and enhance the power of teamwork, while placing care around social, emotional, and cultural awareness.

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Kids at Hope Yuma

We can provide training to all schools and organizations at no cost. Once the philosophy is implemented, schools or organizations will see improvement in their students. Kids at Hope does not add any extra work to schools. Think of Kids at Hope as being your favorite seasoning sprinkled on the already full plate that you have, enhancing the "flavor" of everything you do.
For more information contact: Tim Hardy (928) 210-4000

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Leadership Society of Arizona

LSA is comprised of researchers, educators, and consultants. Since 2013, we’ve been developing tools and processes to improve the delivery of educational services. We use an industry-proven professional development model to support students, parents, teachers, and professional organizations.

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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

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 [email protected].

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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