Program Description:

When we create a learning community that works together through a collectivist lens of shared accountability with a focus on equity, we begin to see how educators convene around high expectations for learning across all dimensions of identities. Such learning communities are empowered to explore how their collaborative actions and decisions propel learning forward. Reimagining schooling through a collectivist lens takes effort when we consider that so much about our current system is grounded in principles of individualism and competition. Yet when we consider that many of the students who enter our classrooms are products of collectivist (rather than individualist) cultures (Hammond, 2015), it stands to reason that the adults in our school communities will benefit through practicing and modeling cooperative relationships.