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ERIC Number: EJ1249791
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0148-432X
EISSN: N/A
Classroom Teachers in the Community Schools Movement: A Social Justice Perspective
Quartz, Karen Hunter; Daniel, Julia; Maier, Anna
American Educator, v44 n1 p35-38, 40 Spr 2020
This article shares the experience of three teachers, who teach and learn at thriving community schools in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. Their experiences challenge traditional ideas about what it means to learn and be a teacher. In their schools, teaching is a community effort where all the adults--teachers, social workers, parents, afterschool coordinators, mentors, and others--in students' lives contribute to their learning and development. As teachers they embrace their role as one of many--united in disrupting long-standing educational inequalities. Sharing their experience helps the authors answer three questions facing the growing community schools movement: (1) What does it mean to be a community school teacher?; (2) How do teachers in community schools promote deeper learning for students?; and (3) How does collaborative leadership create sustainable and humane community school workplaces? The purpose of this article is to elevate the often overlooked role of classroom teachers in the community schools movement.
American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. 555 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001. Tel: 202-879-4420; e-mail: ae@aft.org; Web site: http://www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: California (San Francisco); New York (New York); California (Los Angeles)
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A