7.a. School - Community Relations Journal

Goal 7: Teachers work as partners with parents, families, and the community.

a. Develop a sound, broad-based understanding of students' families and the local communities.

b. Communicate effectively with parents and community and incorporate local ways of knowing into decision making about all levels of schooling.

c. Recognize the school as an integral part of the community and value parents as partners in promoting student learning.

7.a. School - Community Relations Journal - 11 Essays

Posted by Fiona Worcester on Saturday, June 18, 2011 Under: 7.a. School - Community Relations Journal - 11 Essays

At the end of each day in ED612 School - Community Relations class, our professor, Bernie Gurule, gave us a prompt for our journals. The prompt ranged from quotes that capture a major issue relating to school-community relations to important ethical questions that arose during class to asking use to consider, how, individually, we should maintain balance in our lives. Below is my journal, consisting of 11 essays and responses.

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