EDEL 8873 School/Community Relationships

This course promotes engaging families and the community in meaningful, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial ways to promote each student's academic success and well-being. Additionally, the course emphasizes cultivating an inclusive, caring, and supportive school community that builds and maintains a safe, and healthy environment that meet the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each student. It emphasizes developing productive relationships with families and the community for the benefit of the students. The course emphasizes creating a school culture that values diversity where students are known, accepted, valued, and empowered to reach their full potential. Finally, leaders are encouraged to create a culture defining high expectations, encouraging trust, and expecting all stakeholders to be responsible participants. The course provides opportunities to promote ethical and professional conduct which places children at the center of all decision-making.

Credits

3

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the candidate will be able to:

1. Demonstrate the ability to develop and communicate expectations of codes of conduct to address student behavior in a positive, fair, and unbiased manner.
2. Demonstrate the ability to analyze data to ensure that each student has equitable access to effective teachers, learning opportunities, academic and social supports, and other resources needed for college/career readiness.
3. Demonstrate the ability to recognize, respect, and employ each student's strengths, diversity, and culture as assets for teaching and learning.
4. Demonstrate the ability to utilize a variety of strategies to examine and address assumptions and beliefs that may conflict with vision and goals.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of the social, cultural, leadership, and political dynamics of the school community to cultivate a positive academic learning environment.
6. Demonstrate the ability to build and maintain a safe, caring, and healthy school environment that meets the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each student.
7. Demonstrate the ability to promote adult-student, student-peer, and school-community relationships that value and support academic learning and positive social and emotional development.
8. Demonstrate the ability to cultivate and reinforce student engagement in school and positive student conduct.
9. Demonstrate the ability to create and sustain positive, collaborative, and productive relationships with families and the community.