Collaboration

Schools are most effective in addressing the needs of children, youth and their families when school staff and their community partners work collaboratively. Successful collaboration can strengthen relationships among members of the school community and allow staff to navigate within and between different systems to find innovative solutions. The following are links to information about collaborative practices and partnerships.

Learning Coaches

• Learning Coaches in Alberta Schools
• Support for Implementation: Learning Coaches (ARPD)
• What Learning Coaches Need to Know About UDL

Professional Learning Communities

• A School-wide Approach – Making a Difference
• A Literature Synopsis – University of Lethbridge

Support for Collaborative Practices

• Collaborative Service Delivery for Pre-schoolers with Severe Disabilities
• Working Together Toolkit
• Alberta’s Approach to Collaborative Practices
• Collaborative practices based on wraparound principles
• Toward Collaborative Practice
• Collaborating with Parents
• Re: defining Success: A Team Approach to Supporting Students with FASD (2009)
• Success in School for Children and Youth in Care
• A Guide to Support Implementation: Essential Conditions
• Information Sharing

Collaborative Projects and Initiatives

• Student Health
• Children and Youth with Complex Needs
• Alberta Mentoring Partnerships
• Mental Health Capacity Building in Schools
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• Success In School for Children and Youth in Care
• Bully Prevention
• Safe Communities
• Alberta Children and Youth Initiative

Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI)

• School Community Engagement Rubric: Moving from Vision to Action (Cycle 5)
• Parent and Community Engagement

Online Collaborative Spaces

• Engage with Alberta Education
• Enhancing Inclusive Environments – Support for Implementation