For too long, schools have been designed using either a top down or bottom up approach; top down where administration makes all system decisions or bottom up where leadership is responsive to parent needs and wishes.

However, in each model, important stakeholders are missing from the decision making table - students, families, leadership, teachers, and other community partners.

What if, instead, says Wood - Chief Learning Officer at Transcend Education, we implemented a community informed school design model which incorporates the best of the top down model (order) and one that also prioritizes the social emotional needs of the students/families that schools serve?

I hope you will listen in to this episode to learn from Wood how Transcend Education helps school communities to design community schools.

Wood also offers listeners ideas on how communities might design community schools on their own from her new book - Extraordinary Learning for All: How Communities Design Schools Where Everone Thrives.

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Transcend Education

Extraordinary Learning for All Book

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