1. Discovering; Connecting &
Mobilizing Educational
Resources
Askoy Summit, 2020.
Cormac Russell (ABCD Institute at DePaul University, Chicago):
It Takes A Village.
4. Six Building Block of Education
•Gifts, Skills and Passions of local
residents
•The power of local associations
•The resources of institutions
•The environmental assets
• The economic & other exchange
resources
•The cultural assets (stories of the place
and heritage(s)
10. The magic ingredients
Offering to supply support for resident initiatives
rather than assuming the City or School was the
problem solver in the community.
11. The magic ingredients
Making residents into official actors with
responsibility and authority over their initiative.
16. Learning Conversations
•What do you care about enough to act on?
•What local resources can you tap into?
•Who else can you invite in?
17.
18. Functions Added to Public Schools
(Excerpt from: Schools Cannot Do It Alone,
by Jamie Vollmer, Enlightenment Press,
2010)
From 1900 to 1910, we shifted to our public
schools responsibilities related to:
•Nutrition
•Immunization
•Health (Activities in the health arena
multiply every year.)
19. 1.From 1910-1930, we added:
• Physical education (including organized
athletics)
• The Practical Arts/Domestic Science/Home
economics (including sewing and
• cooking)
• Vocational education (including industrial
agricultural education)
• Mandated school transportation
20. 1.In the 1940’s, we added:
• Business education (including typing,
shorthand, and bookkeeping)
• Art and music
• Speech and drama
• Half-day kindergarten
• School lunch programs (We take this for
granted today, but it was a huge step to
• shift to the schools the job of feeding
America’s children one third of their daily
meals.)
21. 1.In the 1950’s, we added:
• Expanded science and math education
• Safety education
• Driver’s education
• Expanded music and art education
• Stronger foreign language requirements
• Sex education (Topics continue to escalate.)
22. 1.In the 1960’s, we added:
• Advanced Placement programs
• Head Start
• Title I
• Adult education
• Consumer education (resources, rights and
responsibilities)
• Career education (options and entry level
skill requirements)
• Peace, leisure, and recreation education
[Loved those sixties.]
23. 1.In the first decade of the twenty-first century, we have
added:
• No Child Left Behind (Republican)
• Bully prevention
• Anti-harassment policies (gender, race, religion, or national
origin)
• Expanded early childcare and wrap around programs
• Elevator and escalator safety instruction
• Body Mass Index evaluation (obesity monitoring)
• Organ donor education and awareness programs
• Personal financial literacy
• Entrepreneurial and innovation skills development
• Media literacy development
• Contextual learning skill development
• Health and wellness programs
• Race to the Top (Democrat)
24.
25. The sequence: 3 Principles
First, determine with residents whether
problems/opportunities can be
resolved/addressed by the citizens acting
together using their own community resources.
26. Second Principle
Second, have the school enhance the collective
citizen resources by providing supportive
institutional assets.
27. Third Principle
Third, acknowledge there will be some problems
that cannot be resolved with citizen resources,
even if supported by school/government
assistance. In these cases, the school/government
must take full responsibility.