School, Community, and Family Partnerships

Undergraduate

This course will help teacher candidates understand how strong family and community engagement in children’s education both at school and at home makes a significant contribution to student achievement and well-being. Teacher candidates will learn about a wide range of research, policy documents, and initiatives in school, community, and family partnerships. With explorations of rich resources of family-school-community partnerships, and incorporating Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization principles, they will be engaged in activities to learn how to develop practical initiatives in meaningful and culturally responsive ways with a sense of a shared responsibility among school educators, families, and communities. Teacher candidates will learn to develop their intercultural competence, and interpersonal communication skills to become culturally responsive teachers. (Credit weight 3.0) (This is an experiential learning course.)