The Progressive Development of Community Schools in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium

This presentation describes how the City of Ghent, a city in Flanders (Belgium), has uniquely developed and scaled up the concept of community schools. Inspired initially by the community schools movement in the Netherlands, leaders for this innovation developed their own design and implementation strategy. These leaders’ developmental story covers 15 years and identifies key features of this approach as well as the different phases in its development.