What are the barriers that are in place that may be presenting obstacles for improving in each of these areas?
One barrier that is presenting an obstacle to DPSCD is the salaries it pays it teachers. At the moment DPSCD suffers from lack of qualified teachers due it’s resistance to pay teachers a livable wage. Another barrier preventing DPSCD from moving to the next level is its ability to cultivate leaders. Throughout DPSCD school leadership constitutes of a principal and assistant principal. Sadly, DPSCD dissolved instructional coaches and other instructional staff last year. Although DPSCD recently initiated a master teacher program its fails to meet the need to cultivate qualified leaders for school leadership.

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What can the community do to help the schools?
DPSCD needs to create community liaison positions for each school that bridges the school and the community. This individual can arrange and facilitate community building activities that brings out the strengths in the community and school while addressing the weakness of the community and school. Community liaisons can bring in community programs such as art, music, sports and emotional health programs that the school lacks the resources to fund.
What resources does the school have that may help the community? What can schools do to help the Detroit community?
A school contains two valuable resources, they are school leaders and teachers. School leaders inspire greatness within his/her staff. By creating an environment to take risks and bring ideas to the table school leadership present a platform to launch teacher ideas. Second, teachers can uses their personal networks to bring in community based organizations, reach out to Donor’s Choose, or uses their personal friend’s to provide students with access to opportunities to