Noted Educators
Understand the Positive
Impact of Community and
Diversity on Student Learning
Team Task:
Read your assigned selection.
Members then work together to
complete the summary.
Community Mapping
“Learning should occur in
multiple contexts and be
anchored in diverse contexts.”
Team Brainstorm:
Community
Record ideas about potential mentoring
activities that could work in our school.
Because urban schools parents, and
opportunity for teachers,offer so little
students to discuss school practices together,
teachers can easily lose sight of alternative
perspectives and misconstrue student
and parental actions.
“There have always been newcomers in this
country; there have always been strangers.
There have always been young persons in
our classrooms we did not, could not,
see and hear.”
Maxine Greene (1993), a noted educational
philosopher