Over time, though, Austin and his colleagues have learned to escape those walls in order to do their best work... A few years before Austin arrived as a twelfth grade teacher, a couple of tenth grade colleagues started to brainstorm and coordinate their curriculum, modeling their efforts on the «
small learning communities concept.»
In a
small office with a team of
community volunteers, she operates Centro Shalom as an urban «campesino center,» a
concept she
learned as a United Farm Workers staffer.