What type of community are you building? #EduCommunity Answers (Part 3 of 5)

• Collaborative and Engaged
• Mentorship community — a group of mentors who help students bring their gifts to the world
• Arts appreciation
• People in our district who are working to design the best professional learning opportunities
• An open and informal learning space for all
• SOCIAL FABRIC + inclusive, responsive, EQUITABLE
• Teachers who want to learn about improving pedagogy
• A functional community of tech leaders across the state (AK) who can share resources, research
• A national network of local ecosystems
• I want to bring local employers (tech) and local under-served residents together as stakeholders in tech training
• Reading and writing teachers who are trying to best implement workshop strategies
• One in which we cheer each other on
• Opening a new PK-8 in Aug 2018
• Innovative, curious learners excited to collaborate with students
• A Daring Community
• Collaborative Learning Community (Schools → Parents & Community)
• A community that will work together to learn new things…and then implement them
• Leadership. All girls (K-8). Nontraditional. “Innovative”
• A cohesive educational community of teachers in my district
• EDUCATED
• My community is a neighborhood center with the following elements: High Quality Early Childhood Center, Teaching Lab for Early Educators, Community Hub for services and support
• Teaching/Leadership of area early childhood providers
• Globally appreciative
• We have an awesome Ed Innovation Community of parents, students, teachers, admins and community leaders in Kansas City! We support K-12 entrepreneurs
• Dynamic and thinking center for education innovation
• School, Employer, CBO
• Equity Innovator for Community Change
• People who want to work together to improve education
• An inclusive one
• Detroit’s future leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs
• Generative ecosystem (that’s the hope)
• I am building a community of learners empowered by the fact that they are loved and see daily compassion modeled
• A haven for TFA alums focused on the private space
• Community of students, educators, entrepreneurs, and industry professionals
• Community: teachers of different backgrounds, teacher coachers, community partners, students
• One with successful students, strong schools, and thriving businesses and organizations
• A collaborative community that challenges others to constantly grow
• My hope is to grow my community into a group that embraces change and innovation

See

• Part 1: What is education innovation?
• Part 2: How do you define community?
• Part 4: How do you design for diversity, inclusion, and equity in your community?
• Part 5: What is your major question regarding community building?

The #EduCommunity Answers series transcribes answers to questions given to participants in Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community, a SXSW EDU workshop by Jessica Falkenthal, John Baldo, and Deborah Chang.