How communities build stronger schools. Konzal, Strategies, and promising practices for educating every child : stories, strategies, and promising practices for educating every child

If it takes a village to raise a child, Anne Wescott Dodd and Jean L. Konzal feel that it takes a community to make a school. Not content with the idea of a school being contained within four walls and existing only for a few hours every day, Dodd and Konzal know that a school which looks after the complete child exists far beyond its four walls and for the whole 24 hours in each day. They present a radical democratic vision of the public school where everyone not just students, teachers and parents plays a part in shaping our children and, consequently, our future. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Why Parents, Educators, and Community Members Must Work Together....Pages 3-17 The Traditional Home-School-Community Relationship: Tensions and Limitations....Pages 18-41 From Confrontation to Conversation: The Story of the South Wellington Parents’ Special-Education Group....Pages 42-69 Conflict About School Change: The Story of Springfield Regional High School....Pages 70-96 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Changing the Paradigm: The Home-School-Community Relationship as Synergistic....Pages 99-137 Getting Started: Building a Foundation of Trust and Respect....Pages 138-177 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Greenbrook Elementary School....Pages 181-202 Creating a Community of Difference: Crossroads Middle School....Pages 203-230 Linking Home, School, and Community: A Sampling of Strategies and Practices....Pages 231-284 Rethinking What it Takes to Educate All Children....Pages 285-308 Back Matter....Pages 309-347 Cites a community's responsibility in fostering an effective public school system, presenting a radical democratic vision that involves every member of a community in shaping its children.