MISSION STATEMENT
To create sustainable, community based public schools that build local community and regional capacity, provide sustainable jobs. and can meet the needs of rural, suburban, urban, diverse socio-economic communities. These models will be community driven, scalable, and can be adapted and replicated. They will incorporate local customs, cultures and practices, and meet United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as well as address the issue of child slavery and sex trafficking.
- Move away from top-down, one-size-fits-all, dependency models to a sustainable, holistic community-based model.
Meet the preK-12 education needs of the community.
- Strong academic program
- School Leader and Teacher led Professional Development/Collaboration
- Labor/Management Collaboration
- Career and Technical Education that integrates into the community.
- Academic and Career and Technology course offerings to be decided on by multiple stakeholders (teachers, school leaders, students, community members, and local municipal officials)
- Digitally connected classrooms to the world
- A digital presence of all course offerings available for students to ensure academic continuity between school and home.
- Follows recommendations in The Treasure Within: Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century.
Create flexible and sustainable campuses.
- Affordable and made from local sustainable materials
- Off-Grid, including solar powered
- Offer additional services based on community needs/wants, such as a medical clinic, offer micro-loans, community meeting place, adult school training, agriculture, on-site child care, food distribution, child care and parenting training, etc.
- Directly integrate into the fabric of the community.
- Integrate existing community projects into the Community Schools environment.
- Include research components.
- Documents via film and academic research learnings from project.
- Ongoing and timely sharing of data from each prototype implemented within the project to ensure responsiveness and transparency
- Creates data of benefits/challenges to students and local community