How can a school become a community school? Hosts Angela Vargas and Lauren McCartney talk with Christine Schuch and Karen Alford of United Community Schools, who work with interested schools in New York City and offer suggestions for schools everywhere.
United Community Schools is a teacher-inspired nonprofit that seeks to expand the traditional sense of a school as merely a place for students to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. Christine and Karen explain how community schools arise out of a collaboration of educator, parent, and community stake-holders to provide health and wellness resources, extended learning time with a seamless after-school component, educator and academic support, and educational justice - equity, access, and possibility.
Learn from this episode how schools across the country are using the community school model to support student success, teacher retention, and community engagement.
Resources -
Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) in Portland
Transforming a School, a Neighborhood, and a System in Cincinnati
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