Everyone shares in the design, development and maintenance of the community. EBCD certainly doesn't solve every problem, but it creates a positive, cooperative context for addressing them. Alienated youth and adults become community resources instead of community problems. Lifelong, shared, and cooperative learning become a part of every citizen's life, young and old, student and retiree, lay and professional. Lives are changed by working with, serving, teaching and learning from others in multicultural and intergenerational contexts.
Academic credit is awarded for community service.
EBCD truly represents an education for living. Children are motivated through learning in tangible ways that they belong, that they are needed, that their ideas are respected, that they can design their lives. These are the essential lessons of life that every person has a right to learn . Of course, teaching these lessons requires substantive work from every corner of the community. As EBCD transforms the community, it transforms the schools.