Desettling Conceptions of Community Accountability: An Examination of Community Accountability Through a Public Forum

• In Event: A Place at the Table: Community and Families Place in the Fight for Educational Equity

Abstract

There is a long history of community members of color organizing to hold school leaders accountable for educational justice. However, the formal methods available for community members to engage in community accountability are designed to maintain schools as settled systems. This qualitative case study examines how community members advocating for students of color demanded a desettled form of community accountability through a public forum in a large urban school district in the Pacific Northwest.

Author

• Sarah Clancey, University of Washington - Seattle