The National Technical Assistance Center for Community Schools is proud of the connection it has had to the Netherlands Community Schools Initiative since its inception in 1994. Since then, at least 15 delegations of Dutch colleagues − including educators, human service professionals and elected officials − have visited our community schools in New York City, attended our biannual Practicum conference, hosted visits to their schools in Amsterdam and Groningen, and shared information about their successes and challenges. In this special issue of Partnership Press, we highlight some of the ways in which these sister schools help immigrants adapt to their new land. Gerard van de Burgwal is a Magnet and Extended Education Consultant in the Netherlands. He is one of the earliest and most faithful champions of the community schools initiative in Holland and is an admirer of the American Community Schools Movement (he is bringing yet another large group for a study visit to New York on March 23 and 24).