A Community of Practice for Transformative Student Voice: Developing Best Practices for Community Schools

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Co-Generative Dialogue for Transformative Change in Communities and Schools (Table 2)

Abstract

As the community school model is adopted by more school districts, particularly urban school districts, questions arise about how community schools are enacting their mission to be a more democratic and community-centered education reform. One of the key community school strategies is shared leadership, which is an important structure that contributes to improved academic outcomes seen so far in community schools (Oakes, et al., 2017). This paper is based on a qualitative, community-based study with community school coordinators (CSCs) and highlights how a community of practice supported CSCs in implementing transformative student voice (TSV) in the shared leadership of their school.

Author

• Julissa Ventura, Marquette University