Community-Engaged Classroom

Learn how to create community-engaged classrooms where real-world experiences become sources of academic learning and opportunities to address local and global challenges.In this interactive, hands-on resource, Drs. Maru Gonzalez, Michael Kokozos, and Christy Byrd show how community-engaged teaching goes far beyond canned food drives, field trips, and one-off service learning projects. They provide the nuts and bolts you need to cultivate equitable classroom-community partnerships by nurturing connection, identifying needs and assets, sharing power, and practicing reciprocity. They also reveal how to secure buy-in from colleagues, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, identify funding sources, and evaluate impact.Each chapter offers practical teaching tips, reflective prompts, firsthand practitioner accounts, and activities that model ethical community-engaged pedagogy, across any setting. No matter what subject you teach, you’ll come away with loads of ideas for establishing and sustaining dynamic learning environments—and the tools to start tomorrow!