Category: Community Educators

Who’s in your neighborhood? Leveraging your community to empower educators and learners

How can school systems leverage their communities to create deeper and more personalized learning for all students? One answer is to empower families, tutors, mentors and other community members with teaching and learning strategies that are easy to access and immediately put into practice with children.

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Introducing the Community Educator Learning Hub

Community educators, the professionals and volunteers who assist with instruction, can now turn to this award-winning catalog of short, interactive nanocourses to access training designed to help them more effectively engage learners.

How are schools leveraging classified staff roles and community partnerships? Explore the Community Educator Lab

Classified staff — including paraprofessionals, custodians and bus drivers — are crucial members of school communities. Arizona State University’s Community Educator Lab is helping school leaders best leverage them to support students and educators.