Jarrad D. Plante is Unit Leader for AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps. His research interests include service-learning, community engagement and national service. He has published, presented, and won awards for his scholarship in these areas.Amy Ellis is Director of the Center for Community Schools at the University of Central Florida, USA where she has helped grow Florida’s community schools from a single-building concept in 2009 to a state-wide twenty-nine site initiative.

• Chapter 1. The community schools concept.- Chapter 2. The role universities play in primary and secondary schools: university-assisted community schools and community partnership schools.- Chapter 3. The community partnership schoolstm model.- Chapter 4. The ucf-certified community partnership schools tm standards and certification process: an asset-based approach to quality assurance and continuous improvement.- Chapter 5. Evans high school, a ucf-certified community partnership school: a case study of the comprehensive community school model.- Chapter 6. Children’s Home Society of Florida’s Lessons Learned.

Jarrad D. Plante is Unit Leader for AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps. His research interests include service-learning, community engagement and national service. He has published, presented, and won awards for his scholarship in these areas.Amy Ellis is Director of the Center for Community Schools at the University of Central Florida, USA where she has helped grow Florida’s community schools from a single-building concept in 2009 to a state-wide twenty-nine site initiative.

• Chapter 1. The community schools concept.- Chapter 2. The role universities play in primary and secondary schools: university-assisted community schools and community partnership schools.- Chapter 3. The community partnership schoolstm model.- Chapter 4. The ucf-certified community partnership schools tm standards and certification process: an asset-based approach to quality assurance and continuous improvement.- Chapter 5. Evans high school, a ucf-certified community partnership school: a case study of the comprehensive community school model.- Chapter 6. Children’s Home Society of Florida’s Lessons Learned.

Jarrad D. Plante is Unit Leader for AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA Corps. His research interests include service-learning, community engagement and national service. He has published, presented, and won awards for his scholarship in these areas.Amy Ellis is Director of the Center for Community Schools at the University of Central Florida, USA where she has helped grow Florida’s community schools from a single-building concept in 2009 to a state-wide twenty-nine site initiative.

• Chapter 1. The community schools concept.- Chapter 2. The role universities play in primary and secondary schools: university-assisted community schools and community partnership schools.- Chapter 3. The community partnership schoolstm model.- Chapter 4. The ucf-certified community partnership schools tm standards and certification process: an asset-based approach to quality assurance and continuous improvement.- Chapter 5. Evans high school, a ucf-certified community partnership school: a case study of the comprehensive community school model.- Chapter 6. Children’s Home Society of Florida’s Lessons Learned.