Community Building
We believe that communities spark meaningful change and can support you in increasing collaboration and building collective efficacy. We help schools to integrate community-building into their ongoing practices.
Why Community Building?
- Participating in a shared learning space with agreed-upon norms has been proven to promote resilience, cohesion, and tolerance among community members.
- Practicing the vulnerability that comes with reflective teaching and learning can help to build bridges between people from diverse backgrounds (Tett, L. (2023, May). The benefits of Community-based Adult Learning).
Our Approach
- We offer three types of community building services: Problems of Practice (PoP), In-Person/Virtual Caregiver Workshops, and Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
- We conduct Probelms of Practice cycles to support teams in engaging in meaningful inquiry around a complex challenge and develop actionable solutions as a result of learning, experimenting, and analyzing data.
- Our Caregiver Workshops can be delivered to caregivers and/or teachers and are meant to support them in building bridges between school and home.
What Our Partners Are Saying About Community Building
Allika Thompson-Young, School Leader of Q492 Mathematics, Science Research and Technology Magnet High School in Queens, NY, shares her experience working with Educate coach, Kyle Liao, to integrate Problems of Practice teams.
For more details, please click on the video to the right.