Multistakeholder Collaborations for Culturally Sustaining Community Schools

• In Event: Moscone Center West Roundtable Session 4

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Ecosystems of educational stakeholders with diverse interests, ideas, and histories can enable and constrain those stakeholders as they try to secure, implement, and improve reforms through strategic collaboration (Alameda-Lawson & Lawson, 2016; Freelon, 2018; Fung & Wright, 2001). Sophisticated community organizations navigate political and normative forces to advance reform that both improves conditions for low income students of color and builds power in their communities to continue fighting for improvements (Renée, Welner, & Oakes, 2009).This session examines how community organizers, service providers and teachers strategically and collaboratively navigate current conditions while using their positions to improve the equitable distribution of educational opportunities at the district and school levels through the community school strategy.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 7: Social Context and Structural Inequalities

Chair

• Terrenda Corisa White, University of Colorado-Boulder

Papers

• Implementing Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Toward Community Advancement - Hui-Ling S. Malone, Michigan State University

• Organizing Parents for Culturally Responsive Education in Community Schools and Beyond - Natasha Capers, Coalition for Educational Justice

• Organizing for Equitable Funding for All New York's Children - Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari, Alliance for Quality Education

• Participation at the District and School Levels for Improved Community School Implementation - Julia A Daniel, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Need for Tackling the Gap for Cultural Responsiveness in Language Teaching for Refugee Students in Turkey - Abdullah Atmacasoy, Middle East Technical University; Hanife Akar, Middle East Technical University

Discussant

• David E. Kirkland, New York University