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…about what localization is and how you define community, and then also how you draw on that as you move towards this model of a community school. Kathleen: I shall…
Read more…find out, by hosting a series of community conversations. Life LeGeros, a Tarrant Institute professional development coordinator and WWSU community member, is taking part in those conversations, and sharing out…
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…community react to this new information? That would become the guiding question for a community conversation that brought together students, educators, community members and historians to talk about real world,…
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Using mergers as community opportunities Vermont Act 46 mergers challenged communities to restructure systems. Under a mandated merger, two schools came together to build one thriving community, focused on building…
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…is community-based learning? Community Based Learning (CBL) refers broadly to student learning experiences outside the traditional school building or school day. These learning experiences are overseen by outside learning facilitators,…
Read more…within and beyond our schools.” I’m happy to report that those positive feelings of community engagement coalesced into a sustained and profound exercise in participatory democracy. More than 100 community…
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…Students to Community Project: a four-week online adventure exploring the questions: What is community? Why is community important? Thinking through the lens of the Global Goals, how has community been…
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…Meals are an integral part of building community at Dismas Houses Five nights a week community members cook for and eat with the residents of Dismas House. These meals have…
Read more…Democracy and proceed with a plan to: Form a team: WWSU created a Community Engagement Coalition that included a wide variety of stakeholders in the community. The team developed an…
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Meet the Humans of Burke So many schools operate in isolation from the very communities they are situated in. Do your students know community members? Does your community see your…
Read more…deepening students’ connection to their community. They called the unit “I Belong”. It provided students with tech-rich opportunities to engage with the small and rural community of their town. When…
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…teaching her students to recognize and honor compassion in community members. Music plays as students, staff, and community members enter the gym for the all-school morning meeting. Fifth-grade students hold…
Read more…deeply seated in the community context it is. The students provide syrup for their peers; that is fantastic. They are able to provide for their community. And often when we…
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…design the space for the community bike shop. How would you make a space that the community can use to fix their bikes?” Everywhere I turned, groups of students were…
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…needs to happen, you can start to do it. And it will be even easier if you ask others in your community to help! How can we keep promoting community-based…
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…takes deliberate work to build and grow. Learning is happening. Collaboration is smooth. Laughter is present. How do we get more of that? Building community, all day, every day We…
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…still plays a very viable role in this community, I feel, and I grew up in this community, so it’s something that has always been near and dear to my…
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…takes deliberate work to build and grow. Learning is happening. Collaboration is smooth. Laughter is present. How do we get more of that? Building community, all day, every day We…
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…adults. That’s community service, right? That’s another misunderstanding I see a lot, is that community service is usually detached from the curriculum. It’s usually adult-decided. The example I like to…
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…just present finished projects to community members. Ou goal from the beginning was to have community members be a part of the projects and actually work alongside kids.” Community mentors…
Read more…are engaging in the culture of their community in an authentic way. Today, I would like to share with you how these students have taken the project a step further….
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…handled in their school community. In this school, the only public democratic school in North America and one of the longest running brick-and-mortar free schools in the world, any student…
Read moreHere in Vermont we’re lucky to have a strong sense of community spirit. Co-ops, partnerships, collectives; these concepts run through many different parts of our lives. We also happen to…
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…also consult a list of external mentors from the community. Here is a request written by student leaders that was posted regularly in Front Porch Forum and emailed to parents…
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…while respecting and appreciating each other’s differences. And yours, too. Let’s explore five resources for building community in your classroom during the #1st5days. 1. Edutopia’s “Appreciation, Apology, Aha!” Edutopia has…
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…‘Community’? Barb Lemmel: ‘Grounded.’ Mitch Hay: This may be too close to ‘community’, but ‘relationships’. Rebecca Stone: I guess my word would be ‘awesome’. It was a gift, for me…
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…with your learning? Are there other ways that you see community in schools being important? Braden: You can get support from your community, but community will also not only help…
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…identity. But also at the same time through sharing out within the community helps them learn from each other, and helps them build community and respect within the context of…
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…dove into creating community gardens, energy committees, water wheels, community dinners, habitat restoration crews, education task forces and wilderness first aid courses. Here’s how it worked. In December, students participated…
Read moreFamily & Community Involvement Part of successful technology integration in schools is the welcoming of families and community members into the dialog around 21st century learning. Whether it’s communicating with…
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…unit on Identity and Community is another jumping-off point for learning about community and belonging. What questions about community are your students asking? How might they feel empowered to positively…
Read more…and solving authentic problems they are interested in. But this doesn’t happen without a strong community of learners. Why build a strong classroom community? Project-based learning, or PBL, is a…
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…to unpack some categories and brainstorm some problems, issues, and opportunities that fit into each one. The categories: Safety Environment Beautification Community spaces Community-building School culture Mapping the community Finally,…
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…polka dancing, students dove deep into their community and history. The team called upon parents and community members to help students explore the fabric of their community. As the projects…
Read more…day for passions projects and community-based learning. Others are scaffolding the skills of self-directed learning through student-driven project-based or design learning. Many are working to make students’ personal learning plans…
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…that the community needs doing. There’s no reason to not do work that the community needs doing. You know, I think it’s a problem and we should look to reform…
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…and community. Culture and community seems to be the very foundation upon which everything else can be built. As is the notion that anyone working with young adolescents absolutely must…
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…another partner in this book. Jeanie: Excellent. I’m so grateful to be talking with community partners that also work with our schools in a variety of ways. And you two…
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…solving. She clearly demonstrated responsible and involved citizenship by contributing to the enhancement of community life, respecting diversity, showing moral courage, and showing a commitment to community wellness by organizing…
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…not a diverse school community. To say, “We’re not diverse,” erases… five, 10, 15, 20 individual students. Even though Randolph Union is 95% students who identity as white. I can…
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…down? How are they going to offer some community learning and some communal spaces? How are they going to signal the community? Hey if you have a problem with this…
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…out into the community. Community partnerships are key for creating authentic and meaningful learning. “Genuine, innovative, and sustainable community partnerships are a fundamental component of successful schools for young adolescents.”…
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How can a school community emerge from isolation to reflect on individual and collective experiences from this uniquely challenging and transformative year? This spring, Hazen Union Middle/High School came back…
Read more…conversations with members of your community. It takes a certain amount of courage to address issues that affect your whole community — such as bullying, hate speech and equity —…
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…action around their school and community. Here’s how it worked. Sustain your community garden Last year, one of the projects the 8th graders at Burke did for Global Goals was…
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…thrive. They started by pondering two great big questions: What is a community? What do we value in a community? As students contemplated these driving questions, they also considered what…
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…relationships. Time in the development of a community, and the movement of a community, and the changing and understanding of a culture. Jeanie: I just said goodbye to a home…
Read more…bring in community members online or in person to share relevant information. This can be interviewing a scientist about invasive species, or a local community member sharing the history of…
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…face-to-face about the issues affecting their community. But Warren Elementary School, in Warren VT, holds Town Meetings on a weekly basis, using the tradition to cultivate citizenship and community. At…
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…transportation, ice rinks, good roads, sidewalks, gardens) social/community/cultural assets (churches, clubs, community activities, community organizations, ceremonies) more! With those ideas, have students list as many assets as they can in…
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…the community, but we burn through our budget by October. Transportation funds are running low (or are gone). We know it is so important to give our students community and…
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…got right to the point: “Dialogue is the heart of democracy. Civil discourse is the heart of community. …Why we engage in the art of dialogue, it’s not only to…
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…student who’s taken on a project and you have an idea like “I want to start a community kitchen in my community.” You’re going to start with that idea and…
Read more…as part of a series they worked on with the Burlington-based community access television group RETN: Find the access center in your community through this searchable map: Turn on the…
Read more…possible areas of problems in the school or community that could be discovered by students. Where can they engage and begin to plan? Find community partners. (not as scary as…
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…Generation Z? Jeanie: She has an important role as an activist in her community, right, because she is working with the elders and the people in her community to stand…
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…fantastic example of technology so well integrated that it blends seamlessly into the larger framework of this community-based project. See also: the digital historians and digital cartographers of Cabot….
Read more…community and set norms, you might want to take a few minutes out of your summer break to explore Shadow Puppet EDU. It’s a perfect app for student-created introduction slideshows…
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…community and the knowledge of the community. It also helps for all of us to expand notions of where learning happens. I think across all of those stakeholders, a central…
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…or where you’re all going on this new journey? 2. Discover your community. Who are the people around you? And who do you see pulling together as a community right…
Read more…learned from a community conversation on race Confronting climate change in the classroom What I Learned at the Youth Climate Strike (re)Building community How to create empathy with your community…
Read more…schools. 3. Using iOS Devices in Education With a broader lens than iPadEd, this Community’s great for the BYOD crowd. 4. 1:1 EDU Community A device-agnostic Community that focuses more…
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…of anybody who I think could ever be helpful. I want this Academy to reflect the community, and I’d like the community to see it as a place where they…
Read more…community. Remind kids as needed about the type of classroom community they dreamed of– and how behaviors can support that vision. 7. Different activities and classes may require different norms…
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