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Notes by Mica Pollock

After many years focusing on face-to-face communications supporting student success in diverse public school communities, I’ve just finished two years engaging people of all ages in exploring the potential of low cost/commonplace technologies (cell phones, computers, free software) for connecting students, educators, families, and community members in youth support efforts in the diverse community of Somerville, MA.

I wanted to offer some citations to previous research and some ideas/¡Ahas! I've personally been chewing on as PI of the OneVille Project, in conversation with literally hundreds of people featured or mentioned on this website. (You'll see ¡Aha! written throughout this website. It means a moment when we figured out something useful about improving communications in education.)

I've come at all this work as a scholar of equity and diversity in public education -- a person newly trying technology to support necessary communications in diverse education communities.

Click here to read an article I’ve drafted that grapples with many of my own ¡Ahas! on the project in a concise way. It's called "It Takes a Network to Raise a Child."

File:PollockIt Takes a NetworkSPRING2012finaleditforsharingpdf.pdf