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    Leadership Transition Guide
     
    Transition in school district leadership is inevitable. The good news? From a communications point of view, naming a new superintendent is an opportunity to build goodwill and community partnerships. It can be a fresh start. It can be time to engage students, parents, and educators with new and exciting ideas about student achievement and stakeholder collaboration.
    31 pages
    October 2024
     
     
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    Crisis Communication: Before, During, and After a Crisis or Active Shooter Event
     
    This guidebook was created to help PREs proactively plan for, and be ready to manage, communications during any crisis that raises extreme anxiety over school safety, that threatens the lives of children and staff, and halts routine school operations. The document also includes specific communication examples from school districts that have experienced other types of crisis such as cyberattacks.
    39 pages
    December 2023
     
     
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    Supporting America's Great City Schools: A Summary of Member Benefits, Services, and Products
     
    A summary of membership benefits of the Council of the Great City Schools.
    28 pages
    September 2022
     
     
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    Cyber-Security in Today’s K12-Environment
     
    Technology has ushered in a new era for teaching and learning in classrooms from kindergarten through high school, with digital learning tools now an integral part of the K-12 environment. This white paper outlines key considerations for establishing secure environments, particularly for the large urban school districts that are part of the Council of the Great City Schools.
    40 pages
    October 2017
     
     
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    How We Help America's Urban Public Schools
     
    A summary of membership benefits of the Council of the Great City Schools
    28 pages
    October 2017
     
     
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    Internal Auditing in the Great City Schools
     
    The objective of this “white paper” is to describe best practices in internal auditing and demonstrate the value that an internal audit function brings to a school district.
    32 pages
    October 2017
     
     
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    FGM/C Prevention: A Resource for U.S. Schools- Printer Friendly Version
     
    The latest estimate from the Centers for Disease Control indicate that in 2012 there were over half a million (512,000) young women and girls at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), the partial or total removal of a girl's external genitalia. The Council of the Great City Schools has partnered with Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation to create this resource guide for U.S. school staff to support the prevention of this dangerous non-medical surgical procedure.
    19 pages
    July 2017
     
     
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    FGM/C Prevention:A Resource for U.S. Schools
     
    The latest estimate from the Centers for Disease Control indicate that in 2012 there were over half a million (512,000) young women and girls at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C), the partial or total removal of a girl's external genitalia. The Council of the Great City Schools has partnered with Global Woman P.E.A.C.E. Foundation to create this resource guide for U.S. school staff to support the prevention of this dangerous non-medical surgical procedure.
    19 pages
    July 2017