Fostering Community Collaboration
Community collaboration require:
Mutual benefit - consideration of the goals of each collaborator/collaborating group
Candor/transparency
Consistent follow-through
Trust
Integrity
Sustainability
Critical consciousness
Democratic Participation
Mutual Respect
Practical ways to foster collaboration
Community conversation events: structured discussion events with wide array of stakeholder groups
Follow up plan
Focus question
Facilitator
Powerful way to help improve post-school outcomes for disabled students
Requires transition planning
Sujet principal
Equity
Framework for building equity:
Inherently grounded in community in the real world
Requires a systems thinking approach
Change the system, not just how things are run within the system
Relational, inclusive, values-driven change process
Change process must include educators starting to interact and work with community stakeholders
Seen, heard, and felt by students
Requires disrupting bias, oppression
A complex goal: without community support, educators are "perched on an unstable stool with one leg"
"differentiated support enabling all learners to achieve their potential in the face of diverse circumstances."
