Community Collaboration in Education

Catalog description

This course offers a new vision of teacher professionalism which includes moving beyond knowing what and how to teach, to articulating for ourselves and our colleagues why we teach in certain ways, to strategically informing others about principles that underlie our practice and the effects of our choices on student learning. Participants will develop skills of leadership, communication, and advocacy that can produce lasting change in classrooms and schools. They will then put these skills to work in their own context in order to change the public narrative about education and engage more productively with local stakeholders including families, administrators, community members, and legislators. (Offered in Spring)