Rubric for Entry 2:
Community Learning and Empowerment

Theme 1: Connections Between School and Community

• Builds school-community connections
• Addresses a community problem, issue, or interest
• Honors the local culture

Theme 2: Process

• Welcomes the questions and complications that arise from the work
• Builds access, communication, and trust

Theme 3: Roles, Relationships, and Power

• Supports adults to take on new roles
• Cultivates new leadership
• Nurtures new relationships
• Promotes shared responsibility and accountability

Theme 4: Community Learning

• Leads to new community understandings
• Engages adults in learning
• Fosters a culture for learning

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