Learning Is Community Supported
Do students feel like a faceless cog in the machine of the school-industrial complex, a data point in a sea of achievement scores, a widget that’s waiting to be manufactured from a bell-to-bell 13-year assembly line?
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Are learners contributing members of a larger community where they feel safe, included, and accepted in pursuit of their learning goals?
In Community Supported Learning Experiences, learners understand the importance of relationships in school and beyond. They continuously explore the benefit of connections within and between family, school, and the greater community in the development of their academic, social, and emotional needs.
Design Principles
Community Supported learning experiences unite learners as contributing members within a larger community of learning.
- To what extent do learning experiences help foster relationships between and among stakeholders?
- How do learners individually and collectively contribute to a larger learning community?
- To what extent can learners articulate how learning connects to the school or community?
- In what ways does the community partner and participate in learning experiences?
Video: Wetland Watchers
Community Supported Playlist
School & Community Partnerships
School as Community
School & Community Partnerships
Community Supported
Quality Character
Community Supported Learning promotes a collaborative and connected approach to learning that encourages personal agency and accountability for behaviors that engender trust and foster success.
Community Supported
Global Citizen
Community Supported Learning promotes a collaborative and connected approach to learning that encourages cultivation of a community of learners that learns from and builds on perspectives.
Community Supported
Communicator
Community Supported Learning promotes a collaborative and connected approach to learning that encourages exchange of ideas between and among a variety of stakeholders within a larger network.
Community Supported
Collaborator
Community Supported Learning promotes a collaborative and connected approach to learning that encourages personal and shared contribution toward a common goal in service of a learning community.
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Critical Thinker
Community Supported Learning promotes a collaborative and connected approach to learning that encourages analysis and synthesis of ideas representing competing ideas from diverse perspectives.
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Creative Thinker
Community Supported Learning promotes a collaborative and connected approach to learning that encourages generation of ideas and solutions within a team in service of a common goal.