Bringing the Community into Your Classroom
Design and sustain meaningful partnerships with community members, organisations, and professionals who can enrich your students' learning — guest experts, mentors, local businesses, cultural organisations, university partnerships, and community volunteers — moving beyond token 'career day' appearances to genuine, curriculum-integrated community engagement.
What you'll walk away with
Map community assets and identifies potential curriculum-integrated partnerships beyond token visits
Design sustained, mutually beneficial community partnerships with clear learning outcomes and partner value
Facilitate student-driven community engagement where learners initiate and own the partnership relationship
Evaluate the impact of community partnerships on student learning and sustains partnerships across semesters
How a Learning Series works
Work through the snacks — short, evidence-based lessons that build your understanding. Each one gives you research, a classroom connection, and one thing to try or discuss.
Test your understanding in a low-stakes mini-experiment before you bring it to your classroom. Leverage our downloadable materials to support you in your teaching and classroom practice and let us know how it goes!
For credit towards an Accingo Course certificate, try something from this series in your own classroom, then complete a short, structured reflection on what you learned and what you would bring to your PLC and/or regular practice. You will see "Application Artifact" if required.
