Community is All/And

At PSCS we talk a lot about community-centered education as a progressive learning model. One that prepares young people to be self-aware and curious critical thinkers, to pursue deeper knowledge and joy, to embody and apply their learning to action, in order to contribute wholly to a more just and equitable future for all.

This model also recognizes that student learning and engagement is inexorably intertwined with all developmental stages, community building, justice, and equity—as well as prioritizing the well-being of trusted educators who are supported holistically to champion young people at varying stages of development, and committed to hearing and confirming the voices of those historically excluded and perpetually, often violently, marginalized.

Community-building is a learned skill that must be practiced and honed. Student success and advocacy exists on a perpetual möbius that is not either/or. Community is all/and.

Collaboratively, PSCS staff scaffold community centered learning through:

✔️ celebrating individual successes and challenges within the context of a larger collective,

✔️ valuing and understanding each of our own individual and intersecting identities, contributions, creativity, divergences, talents, and needs,

✔️ prioritizing the lived experience, balance, wholeness, and passion of educators and mentors, while acknowledging the unceasing and systemic erasure of those most qualified, appropriated, and underrepresented in community creation,

✔️ collective movement toward challenge, truth, repair, transformation, and joy—in order to envision a future worth learning for; a future that centers the dignity and humanity of us all.

All of it.

Teach Community.
Love, Sieg