Community-to-School Directory

• 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.