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Based on your readings in the required resources, identify the main ‘barriers’ that you see to activating sectors in your community. What about building consensus? Why? Be specific, but not critical, in your examples. Which of the examples and suggestions in our required readings do you think would be the easiest to implement and would work best in your community? Why?

Required Resoures
Lenz, B. (2007). A community of learners: Building a supporting learning environment. Edutopia. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/envision-schools-learning-community-respect .Bob Lenz discusses the Envision Schools and reviews how these schools support and empower their students.

Scurry, A. (2011). How to provide meaningful support services in a virtual school: Robust family support (part 1 of 4). Edutopia. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/online-learning-pa-virtual-adrienne-scurry
Adrienne Scurry discusses the Diamond Model that the Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School uses to identify and define their Family SupportDepartment
Search Institute. (2011). Sparks Matter: Listening for Sparks [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0Abi8oEgAw&feature=youtu.be
In this video, students discuss listening for sparks.

Sheninger, E. (2011). Student driven schools. A Principal’s Reflections. Retrieved from http://esheninger.blogspot.com/2011/05/student-driven-schools.html
This blog contains a guest post by two students at New Milford High School who wrote about a student initiative supported by administration.