The Power of Community-Centered Education

Does Community-Centered Education Matter?

Department of Education knows it matters

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The Great Waste ,[object Object],[object Object]

Crisis in the Narrative Environment

Epidemic of Disengagement Lack of “narrative fit” between the stories of schooling and students’ personal lives

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Benefits of Community-Centered Teaching ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Education as culture How are the understandings we seek manifest locally and regionally?

The adventure of research reading, taking notes, observing, experimenting, presenting

Community-Centered Teaching: truth in a local dialect

Linking community and scholarship

Accountability in the Community

Exhibitions of mastery and more. . .

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Michael L Umphrey [email_address] 406 370-4369 http://www.montanaheritageproject.org

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