Topic: Community educators

At SPARK School at Kyrene de las Manitas, 120 students in multi-aged grade bands (third through fifth grades) work with a core team of six educators: one teacher executive designer, two certified teachers and three teacher candidates. The prototype school-within-a-school was developed during a design process collaboratively led by the Kyrene School District and ASU’s MLFTC Design Initiatives. In this resource, you’ll find out how they’re implementing a Next Education Workforce model.

In Fall 2020, Whittier Elementary in Mesa, Arizona will create two team-based learning communities with 170 students in grades four through six. Each “house” will include 85 students and will be guided by an educator team comprising three certified teachers and two MLFTC teacher candidates. In this resource, you’ll find out how they’re implementing a Next Education Workforce model.

Host Brent Maddin shares how MLFTC is working with schools and other partners to 1) provide all students with deeper and personalized learning by building teams of educators with distributed expertise and 2) empower educators by developing new opportunities for role-based specialization and advancement.

Riverview High School serves 90-120 students in grades 7 through 12. Many of these students have left their assigned district schools due to disciplinary reasons or are transitioning out of

Spark Institute serves about 250 7th and 8th graders at ASU Preparatory Academy–Polytechnic. The educator team includes 10 certified teachers: three core content area teachers for 7th grade, three core

Community educators provide capacity and insight in service of deepening and personalizing student learning. They enrich learning environments by forging authentic relationships, sharing expertise and expanding networks. They work in schools, community-based organizations and anywhere that learning happens. MLFTC has built just-in-time online courses intended to support community educators in their roles. Explore this slide deck to learn more.

As schools build teams of educators with distributed expertise, and especially as they increase the number of community educators on their teams, scheduling becomes an increasingly complex task. Here, you’ll find five actionable steps for building schedules for remote community educators that are responsive to student and team needs and maximize community educators’ skills and talents.

Who are the groups of adults that might be leveraged to support students? Explore the specific roles those adults might play in the learning space.

Community educators are talented adults from the community who bring additional capacity, insight and expertise to learning environments. Read on to learn about community educator roles; knowledge, skills and dispositions; policies and practices; and more