CCPA 360Reimagining Schools

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This course will utilize a combined classroom/civic engagement approach to present an introduction to community schools - using schools as the hubs of communities, an innovative way to serve children and families, and to nurture and sustain communities. Students will learn about international and national models of community schools, and ways that community schools are being built in Broome County with the support of Binghamton University Community Schools. As a service-learning course, students will engage in a community-based project related to local community schools. Because this class enrolls a small number of students (capped at 25) across a wide range of disciplines, students will have opportunities to learn from each other across the silos of their disciplines and professions. This course will make explicit its connections with three of BU's transdisciplinary areas of excellence including: Community schools as a model for sustainable communities; Community schools as models for assuring the rights of all constituents through citizenship, rights and cultural belonging; and, Community schools as innovative models of health sciences - addressing physical, behavioral, and mental health of children, families and communities. Cross-listed with EDUC 360.