"Responses"-- Posters--Facilitators' Questions
What role do you think Place-Based Education can play towards increasing educational opportunities in your area?
Awareness--
Teachers become more aware of resources available to the curriculum
Highlight what education (ed) is doing. Build support for ed.
Helping children to be aware of what the community offers.
Building an awareness of community/human resources/reciprocal learning
Door to career awareness & opportunity
Community realizes that it has ways to contribute to education
Opens new doors as to what is available--each activity leads to many more.
Matches education to needs of community and interest of students.
Experiences--
Widen curriculum, e.g., economics especially for disadvantaged kids who may not experience local activities
Provide more engaging activities (real life situations) for students
Expand learning experiences beyond the classroom
Use the local community to increase the learning experience
Belonging--
Helping people feel as though they are part of/belong in this community, want to make it better
Keep kids home; enhance ed performance
It can help students feel as if they belong, are related to the community, so they don't want to hurt it, but want to make
it better; and education can be their way to do this.
What should/could the role of schools be in community development?
"Open door/open time"-- commitment, yes
DEF investment as a conductor
Community projects let doors down, let school classes suggest
Open doors for community use & program
Build around community needs
Civic engagement--
Develops citizenship (parenting)
More role in parenting & developing citizens for work identified by community
More involved in parenting & citizenship development
School could serve as a conduit for engaging the entire community in addressing issues within the community
For encouraging all populations within the community to address issues and/or concerns
Give students (& educators) "voice" and feet (active role); decision making, physical powers
Could encourage civic participation, including in local political issues, utilize school building's role as a key public physical facility
Have schools become more a part of community
Give students and teachers ownership in role of schools
An integral role; must be involved in community decisions
School/community mutual appreciation--
Strengthen marriage between schools & communities
Reflection of community; beneficial mutually, structure for communication/collaboration
Feed the roots, "keep them here"--
Dating service
Students recognize positive values of community so they have a desire to come back
Help students have desire to come back to this community
What does the community need to sustain and improve its quality of life?
Business/employment--
Employment; change revenue cap
Research park concept, better jobs, community prestige
Research park, fewer people
Having more businesses that aid younger students to participate in real life situations
Business opportunities for under 21's
Newer/better educational facilities
Partnerships--
Full & stronger development of higher ed opportunities & partnership
Broaden understanding of communities within the larger community
Appreciation--
Community, organization and development
People need to appreciate their heritages & community
Plan invested in by community--
A well-devised strategic plan for future
Plan to identify & address concerns
Re-energize, revitalize the community
What are the benefits of connecting learning to the community? What can you build on that already exists?
Connecting ownership of community & issues
Making students aware of natural resources
Students become aware of past and present
Build on values & family structures
Service learning
Ease of communication (easy networking)
Network of retirees
Bring disparate groups together through youth activities
Ownership/take responsibility for community improvement; build on partnerships economic, etc.
Can build on farms and natural resources (water ways); benefits: better academic achievement
Meaningful student achievement (i.e., better fertilizers); community/students invested in each other
Use of place, local resources, saves $, provides opportunities for local experts to "shine,' share & give back, and see the positive outcomes
Smallness allows and promotes networking; all/each are "reachable" (Character Counts & Jr. Achievement open doors
to resources, strong service learning)
Ability to work with people we know/networking
Create ties to the community; education can solve problems
Keep the home fires burning
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