Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity

Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity provides a how-to guide for education, government, and community leaders interested in creating cross-sector systems of support for students. These collaborations strive to close achievement and opportunity gaps and help children overcome problems stemming from poverty, racism, and other societal ills. Based on a framework developed at Harvard's By All Means Initiative, the book walks readers through the process of jump-starting a successful collaboration between school, government, and community leaders. Paul Reville and Lynne Sacks describe how to form a local Children's Cabinet to lead the effort, identify goals and strategies, and ensure the long-term sustainability of the collaboration. "Cross-sector collaborations and collective impact initiatives have been adopted by hundreds of cities, towns, and counties across the country. This wise guide provides experience-based insights and practical tools on how to put theory into action to meet the challenge of actually providing meaningful educational opportunities to all of our children." --Michael A. Rebell, executive director, Center for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University "Clear. Concise. Compelling. Courageous. Reville and Sacks deliver an incredibly powerful argument for why Children's Cabinets are the only logical response to the incredible challenges at hand." --Karen Pittman, cofounder and senior fellow, The Forum for Youth Investment Paul Reville is the Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the founding director of HGSE's Education Redesign Lab. Lynne Sacks is the research director at the Education Redesign Lab and a lecturer at HGSE.