In this episode you will hear Alison McArthur and Hank Clay discuss the community schools model and how their organizations are transforming schools here in Nashville.  Alison is the Coordinator for Community Achieves and Hank is the CEO of Communities in Schools of Tennessee.

Here is a list of ways that you can get involved:

• Contact a site manager at a Community Achieves school to become a mentor, tutor, lunch buddy, club leader, etc. You can also donate needed items. Click here for a list of schools and contact information.
• Contribute a monetary or in-kind donation to Communities in Schools of Tennessee.
• Attend a Communities in Schools of Tennessee site visit. Upcoming site visits are on Feburary 20 at DuPont Tyler Middle Prep and on March 28 at Bellevue Middle Prep.
• Sign up for the Communities in Schools of Tennessee mailing list.

I prepared this episode before the horrific mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. I hope you'll consider joining me at March For Our Lives Nashville on March 24. I believe that we owe it to our children and our teachers to show that we won't stand idly by and do nothing. In the words of survivor Emma Gonzales, "The thing that caused me grief, the thing that had no right to cause me grief, the thing that had no right to happen in the first place, I have to do something actively to prevent it from happening to somebody else."

 

Music has be altered and repurposed for and by L. Dunnavant of the Education Conversation Podcast.

 

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