How Communities Build Stronger Schools Stories, Strategies, and Promising Practices for Educating Every Child

If it takes a village to raise a child, Anne Wescott Dodd and Jean L. Konzal feel that it takes a community to make a school. Not content with the idea of a school being contained within four walls and existing only for a few hours every day, Dodd and Konzal know that a school which looks after the complete child exists far beyond its four walls and for the whole 24 hours in each day. They present a radical democratic vision of the public school where everyonenot just students, teachers and parentsplays a part in shaping our children and, consequently, our future.

Anne Wescott Dodd is the Chair of the Education Department at Bates College. Jean L. Konzal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education at The College of New Jersey. They are the authors of Making Our High Schools Better.