Inclusive District-Community Partnerships: Developing Equitable Access to Powerful Learning in Cybersecurity

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 2:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  In Roundtable Session: Opportunities and Tensions in School-Community-Family Partnerships (Table 1)

Abstract

School-community partnerships across educators, families, and communities have been a means of promoting student success, contributing to better student achievement, attendance, and attitudes toward school. However, engaging families and communities—who are typically not included in district and school decisionmaking—can be challenging. Using a mixed methods design, we examine indepth district-community collaborations in developing and implementing a Cybersecurity Pathway program to understand how a partnership-developed program engaged students currently underserved in STEM and afforded access and learning in a future-oriented career pathway.

Authors

• Mai Chou Vang, Digital Promise

• Viki Young, Digital Promise