Division A Fireside Chat: Politics and Power in Community Policing and Community Schooling

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Areas of educational research such as grassroots organizing, parent and community engagement, school improvement, and school leadership are committed to improving and understanding community policing and schooling relationships. Yet, too often our research does little to foster public solving. In this session, we turn to the public for answers. This Fireside Chat aims to understand how politics and power shape community policing and community schooling from the perspectives of policymakers, school leaders, and community members. By focusing on recent national cases of community policing, we aim to: 1) establish the ways in which community policing is deeply related to community schooling; 2) identify examples of how power is shared; and 3) articulate policy priorities that will help rebuild school communities.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Cosponsor

• Division A - Administration

Speakers

• Sonya Douglass Horsford, George Mason University

• Corynne Deliberto, Community Law In Action

Participants

• Elke Chen

• Gregory Thornton, Baltimore County Public Schools