Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities
Just Schools examines the challenges and possibilities for building more equitable forms of collaboration among non-dominant families, communities, and schools. The text explores how equitable collaboration entails ongoing processes that begin with families and communities, transform power, build reciprocity and agency, and foster collective capacity through collective inquiry. These processes offer promising possibilities for improving student learning, transforming educational systems, and developing robust partnerships that build on the resources, expertise, and cultural practices of nondominant families. Based on empirical research and inquiry-driven practice, this book describes core concepts and provides multiple examples of effective practices. Book Features: Broadens the dominant conception of leadership to include traditionally marginalized parents and communities as potential educational leaders. Explores partnerships from both a systemwide and in-school basis, with detailed portraits of what is possible. Translates theoretical principles at multiple scales: systemic, school, and individual practice. Shares studies focused on a broad range of contexts, strategies, and practices for enacting equitable collaboration with families.
Data Inquiry for Equitable Collaboration
Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality (SKCE)
CCTV Non Profit Center - Salem/Keizer Coalition for Equality
Official Publisher's Webpage (Teachers College Press)
Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: Elaborating a Model of District-Community Collaboration
When New Relationships Meet Old Narratives: The Journey towards Improving Parent-School Relations in a District-Community Organizing Collaboration
“Darles el lugar”: A Place for Nondominant Family Knowing in Educational Equity
From Family Engagement to Equitable Collaboration
Disrupting Racialized Institutional Scripts: Toward Parent–Teacher Transformative Agency for Educational Justice
Reinforcing Deficit, Journeying Toward Equity: Cultural Brokering in Family Engagement Initiatives
Families in the Driver’s Seat: Catalyzing Familial Transformative Agency for Equitable Collaboration
"Just Schools" Book Launch with Ann Ishimaru, Muhammad Khalifa, and Megan Bang
Just Schools book launch with Ann Ishimaru, Muhammad Khalifa, and Megan Bang
From 'Best' to 'Next' Practices in Family Engagement for Educational Justice
Ishimaru, A. M. (2019). Just Schools: Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities. Teachers College Press.
Co-designing Justice and Well-Being with/in Systems and Conclusions